India - 2025 ACF Fall

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A seven-act play from this country inspired a prologue from Goethe’s Faust with its metatheatrical introduction. In a play from this country, a girl distracted by her love marriage is cursed for not greeting a visitor (-5[1])to her hermitage. (10[1])In that play from this country, a king is presented (10[1])with a signet (10[1])ring (10[1])found (10[1])in a (10[2])fish, (10[13])allowing (10[3])him (10[1]-5[1])to remember (10[2])his (-5[1])title (10[1])wife. (10[2])This country’s (10[1]-5[1])Kathakali (10[4])(“kuh-thuh-KUH-lee”) dance-dramas (10[7])convey (10[1]-5[1])narrative (10[3])using (10[1])makeup and hand gestures (10[1])called (-5[1])mudras. (10[6]-5[1])An epic (10[4])from this country (10[1])inspired (10[1])many folk (10[1])plays about the 18-day Kurukshetra (10[1])War (10[3])between (10[2])the (10[1])Kauravas (10[3])and Pandavas. (10[7]-5[1])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])name this (10[2])country (10[1])whose (10[1])classical (10[1])plays were written in Sanskrit. (10[4])■END■ (10[26])

ANSWER: India [or Bhārat; or Republic of India; or Bhārat Gaṇarājya]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Auburn C	35	-5
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	British Columbia A	38	10
Shivam Saxena	Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech B	48	10
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	Michigan B	51	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	Louisville D	52	10
Antara Bhattacharya	Cambridge A	Oxford	53	10
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	CWRU A	55	10
Matthew Bucek	George Mason A	Maryland A	55	10
March Delfin	UCSD A	UC Santa Barbara	56	10
Deepanshi Matai	Toronto C	Toronto A	56	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Toronto B	56	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	Michigan State B	56	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	NCSU A	56	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	UNC C	56	10
Ilyas Choukri	Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	56	10
Kevin Yang	Illinois Blue	Illinois Champaign	56	10
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Purdue D	56	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Brown A	56	10
Maisie Quinn	Brown B	Dartmouth B	56	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Chipola College	56	10
Pranav Jothi	Georgia Tech A	Tennessee A	56	10
Devito Stevanus	McGill B	McGill A	57	10
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	McGill C	57	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Steelhead	57	10
Mary Kate Vance	Louisville A	CWRU B	58	-5
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	South Carolina A	58	10
Joshua Iyo	UNC B	VCU A	60	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	Boston College A	60	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	Washington Coho	61	-5
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Boise State	62	10
Kayla Drajpuch	Brandeis Bach	Boston University A	63	10
Aiden Shields	Clemson A	Georgia Tech C	63	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Mighty Miner	65	-5
Alden Thompson	Carleton A	Carleton B	65	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	Chicago B	66	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Sockeye	66	10
Niyanthi Yamunan	Georgia Tech E	Emory A	66	10
Nitinkisor Rajesh Kumar	Edinburgh B	Durham D	66	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	67	10
Pranet Sirikonda	Ohio State B	CWRU D	67	10
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Indiana B	67	10
Anya Srinivasan	Washington Atlantic	British Columbia B	67	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	British Columbia C	67	10
Sonali Srikanth	Georgia Tech D	Montevallo	67	10
Vishrut Pisupati	Imperial B	Cambridge C	67	10
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	Maryland C	68	10
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Cambridge B	68	-5
Aarav Kakad	UCLA C	UCSD B	69	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Macalester	69	10
Taisia Kudimova-Campeanu	Imperial D	Cambridge E	69	10
Nina Chen	Waterloo B	Waterloo C	70	10
Mahathi Veluri	UConn A	Tufts B	74	10
Brennan Davis	Louisville B	Michigan C	75	-5
Liam Henderson	McMaster B	Toronto E	76	-5
David Ropp	Duke A	Liberty A	76	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Iowa A	76	10
David Nickel	Purdue A	Purdue C	76	10
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Clemson C	76	10
Tevin Francis	Southampton	Birmingham	76	10
Anirudh Terdal	LSE	Imperial C	76	10
Valentina Chamandy	McGill E	Ottawa C	78	10
Saju Ramraj	Toronto I	McMaster C	78	10
Pratham Bhanushali	WVU B	Michigan State D	78	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Tennessee Tech	78	10
Ritisha Dey	Stanford A	Berkeley Little Prince	81	10
Jas Wang	UCLA F	UC Irvine	82	10
Ritwik Sharma	Arizona State A	Washington State	84	10
Scarlet Rutter	Claremont A	Claremont B	89	10
Miriam Lee	Queen's A	Toronto F	90	10
Manobhiram Vegendla	Ohio State D	Louisville C	90	10
Sia Kalia	Warwick	Imperial A	90	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCLA D	91	10
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	Illinois Canada	91	10
Sewanth Paudel	Ohio State C	CWRU C	92	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Guelph A	93	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida B	93	10
Akif Ismail	Williams C	Harvard	93	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Berkeley Skeleton King	95	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC B	95	10
Arya Patel	Florida Tech B	ERAU Daytona A	95	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	William & Mary A	95	-5
William Erwin	William & Mary B	William & Mary C	95	10
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Wisconsin C	95	10
Salil Jain	Williams B	Brandeis Mozart	95	10
Will Hughes	Auburn A	Auburn B	95	10
Elise Economou	Pittsburgh	Michigan D	96	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	98	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Iowa B	100	10
Ian Saylor	Wisconsin A	St. Thomas	100	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Amherst B	101	10
Jamie Pach	Ottawa D	Ottawa A	102	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Rose-Hulman A	103	10
Ty Brennan	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Boss Bandit	108	10
Frances Corban	Toronto H	Brock A	108	10
Alex Coleridge	Durham B	Sheffield A	108	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	ESF	108	10
Chris Chang	USC A	UCLA A	109	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	McMaster B	109	10
Henry Siegler	Toronto D	Waterloo A	109	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	South Florida A	109	10
Dominic Heffron	Florida Tech A	UCF A	109	10
Meredith Wiper	CWRU B	Louisville A	109	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Louisville B	109	10
Eric Cameron	Michigan State C	WVU A	109	10
Abby Keith	Liberty B	JMU B	109	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	NCSU B	109	10
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	Virginia A	109	10
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin B	109	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Dartmouth A	109	10
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Brandeis Beethoven	109	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	Arizona State B	109	10
Austin Embry	Auburn C	Mississippi State A	109	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Sewanne	109	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Durham A	109	10
Musa Ahmed	Edinburgh C	Durham C	109	10
Benjamin Turner	York	Edinburgh D	109	10
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	Bristol	109	10
Yasmin Campbell	Cambridge B	Cardiff	109	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Binghamton C	109	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	RIT B	109	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	RIT A	109	10
Sammy Carstens	Rochester	Binghamton B	109	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	0%	100.20
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	13%	81.13
Northern California	US	4	100%	25%	87.75
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	84.43
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	71.80
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	11%	85.44
Florida	US	4	100%	0%	101.50
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	17%	80.33
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	11%	80.67
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	2	100%	0%	61.50
Midwest	US	9	100%	0%	76.78
North	US	4	100%	0%	93.25
Northeast	US	10	100%	0%	81.60
Pacific	US	8	100%	13%	68.75
Southeast	US	13	100%	8%	75.31
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	108.80