ivory - 2025 ACF Fall

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It’s not beeswax or rubber, but this good was collected by Chokwe people and traded to Deep River, Connecticut. A region named (10[1])for this good was ruled by kingdoms of the Baoulé (“bow-lay”) people, (-5[1])whose descendants include Félix Houphouët-Boigny (“oo-foo-AY bwon-YEE”). In (-5[1])the Congo Basin, thousands of slaves (-5[2])supported (-5[2])Arab (10[1])clove (10[1]-5[3])plantations (-5[1])and the acquisition of this good (-5[1])by (-5[1])Tippu (-5[2])Tip. (10[1]-5[4])Portuguese (10[1]-5[2])traders (-5[1])commissioned Kongo artisans (10[1])on the Loango (10[2])Coast (10[2]-5[1])to create oliphants (-5[2])made from (10[1])this good. (10[6])In 1989, (10[1])Kenyan (-5[1])President (10[1])Daniel (10[1])arap (10[1])Moi (10[4])lit (10[1])tons of this (-5[1])good (10[2])on (10[1])fire (10[7]-5[1])to (10[2]-5[2])stymy (10[7])poaching (10[2])efforts. (10[27]0[1]-5[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[5])false (10[2])teeth (10[1])and piano (10[4])keys (10[5])fueled (10[3])European (10[1])demand (10[6])for what (10[2])good harvested from (10[2])elephants? ■END■ (10[14]0[1])

ANSWER: ivory [accept the Ivory Coast or Côte d'Ivoire; accept elephant tusks] (Félix Houphouët-Boigny was President of the Ivory Coast.)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Elias Lowrey	Lehigh B	NYU B	21	10
Antara Bhattacharya	Cambridge A	Southampton	32	-5
Shreyansh Satapurthy	UCLA D	Claremont A	38	-5
Johnny Myers	Williams B	Dartmouth B	44	-5
Bharath Ram	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	44	-5
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	ERAU Daytona A	45	-5
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	45	-5
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Brown B	46	10
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Louisville D	47	-5
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	George Mason B	47	-5
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Mississippi State A	47	10
Andreas Ktori	Durham A	Edinburgh C	47	-5
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	Washington Chinook	48	-5
Alexander Rutten	Columbia A	Princeton	54	-5
Nicholas Hall	Cambridge E	Cambridge C	55	-5
Hamza Ali	Washington Masu	Washington Pink	56	-5
Youyou Yu	Imperial A	Cambridge D	56	-5
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	USC B	57	10
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	McMaster C	57	-5
Enina Edosomwan	CWRU A	CWRU B	57	-5
Makensey Vanderburg	Tufts B	Vermont A	57	-5
Liam Markland	Alberta A	Washington Atlantic	57	-5
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto D	McMaster A	58	10
Orin Overmiller	Florida Tech B	South Florida A	58	-5
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Indiana A	58	-5
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Dartmouth A	59	-5
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	Cornell A	62	10
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Chicago A	65	10
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Williams C	65	10
Jayden Ngo	Kentucky	Pittsburgh	66	-5
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	NYU A	66	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Emory A	66	10
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	Purdue A	69	-5
Francis Dinh	Illinois Canada	Purdue B	69	-5
Oliver Thompson	CWRU D	Michigan C	71	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa D	73	10
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	Louisville A	73	10
Jesse Mindel	NCSU A	William & Mary A	73	10
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	UNC B	73	10
Hudson Kee	William & Mary B	JMU A	73	10
Wesley Stine	Clemson A	Chipola College	73	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	UConn A	75	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA C	76	-5
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Edinburgh A	77	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Boss Bandit	78	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Stanford A	79	10
Ilyas Choukri	Virginia Tech A	UNC A	80	10
Madeline Strauss	Tufts A	Amherst A	80	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Tennessee A	80	10
Leo Neve	Durham D	Edinburgh D	80	10
Cara Leonard	William & Mary C	Liberty A	81	10
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Vermont B	84	-5
Charlotte Bauer	McGill C	McGill A	85	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech E	85	10
TJ Pickering	Auburn B	Georgia Tech B	86	10
AnnaMaria Donnelly	UCF A	Florida A	87	10
Joshua Garner	Ohio State A	Louisville B	87	10
Chase Moss	WVU A	WVU B	87	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Maryland B	87	10
Zachary Leblang	Penn	Rutgers D	87	10
Peter Kushnir	British Columbia B	Texas	87	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	Binghamton B	87	-5
Gregory Stone	ESF	RIT A	87	10
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Toronto C	88	10
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	William Woods University A	88	10
Molly Oakley	Binghamton C	Rochester	88	-5
Molly Oakley	Binghamton C	Rochester	88	-5
Scott Sibley	UC Irvine	Claremont C	89	10
Gerrit Severeid	McGill E	Carleton A	89	10
Andrew Lin	Toronto G	Waterloo B	89	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Iowa A	89	10
Anneke Stracks	Macalester	St. Thomas	89	10
Justin Gilbert	Auburn C	Vanderbilt C	89	10
Vishrut Pisupati	Imperial B	Birmingham	89	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland A	Rutgers A	90	10
James Haddix	Washington State	British Columbia C	90	10
Adrian Li	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	91	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	Berkeley Skeleton King	91	10
Mai Höglund	Claremont B	UCLA B	91	10
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa A	Ottawa B	91	10
Ellie Wang	Brock A	Queen's A	91	10
Blake Kim-Wansbrough	Toronto A	Waterloo A	91	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida Tech A	91	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Louisville C	91	10
Adam Monusko	Michigan A	Michigan B	91	10
Daniel Luebs	Michigan State B	Ohio State B	91	10
Manobhiram Vegendla	Ohio State D	Michigan State C	91	10
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech B	Virginia A	91	10
Daniel Abrams	Rutgers B	Lehigh A	91	10
Jun Chen	George Mason C	Columbia B	91	10
Aidan Drain	NYU C	Rutgers C	91	10
Jack Marguiles	Stony Brook	Vassar A	91	10
David Black	Illinois Champaign	Iowa B	91	10
Emily Justak	Indiana B	Illinois Orange	91	-5
James Windle	Purdue D	Rose-Hulman A	91	10
Beverly Eborn	Boston College A	Brandeis Mozart	91	10
Ritwik Sharma	Arizona State A	Washington Sockeye	91	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	91	10
Jonas Cross	Tennessee Tech	Auburn A	91	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	91	10
Alex Coleridge	Durham B	Edinburgh B	91	10
Jacob Coyne	Durham C	Sheffield B	91	10
Tom Blythe	Cambridge D	Imperial A	91	0
Harry Crane	Warwick	LSE	91	10
Jake Scoville	RIT B	Binghamton A	91	10
Ethan Ririe	UCSD B	UCSD A	92	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	UNC D	93	10
Sophia Schlag	Ottawa C	Carleton B	94	10
Monica Wang	Guelph A	Toronto E	94	10
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Waterloo C	94	10
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin C	94	10
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial D	94	10
Julia Marder	Pittsburgh	Kentucky	95	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Clemson C	95	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Chum	96	10
Jaden Rupolo	Liberty B	NCSU B	98	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Tusculum A	98	10
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Wisconsin B	98	10
Harry Oxley	Imperial C	Bristol	98	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC A	99	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	CWRU C	99	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Vassar B	99	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Williams B	99	10
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	Cornell C	99	10
Rafael Gómez	Amherst B	Boston University B	100	10
Kushagra Bahuguna	Washington Chinook	Washington Steelhead	100	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	British Columbia A	100	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Illinois Canada	101	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Ohio State C	102	10
David Nickel	Purdue A	Chicago B	102	10
Andrew Park	Harvard	Brandeis Beethoven	102	10
Stan Entwistle	Edinburgh C	Durham A	102	10
Jonah McGinley	Rochester	Binghamton C	102	10
Jonah McGinley	Rochester	Binghamton C	102	10
Julia Austin	Vermont B	Williams A	104	10
Mata Cooper	Southampton	Cambridge A	104	10
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Indiana B	107	10
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Cambridge E	107	10
Jonathan Koehler	UCLA C	UC Santa Barbara	109	10
Annika Larson	Claremont A	UCLA D	109	10
Adithya Parat	McMaster C	Toronto F	109	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida State A	109	10
Addison Wiggins	South Florida A	Florida Tech B	109	10
Pace Klein	CWRU B	CWRU A	109	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Johns Hopkins	109	10
Johnathan Ahdout	Princeton	Columbia A	109	0
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	WashU Grolars	109	10
Drew Wetterlind	Iowa State	Wisconsin A	109	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Brown A	109	10
Will Hamilton	Vermont A	Tufts B	109	10
Anya Srinivasan	Washington Atlantic	Alberta A	109	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Masu	109	10
David Xilbille	Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	109	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	20%	88.20
UK (South)	UK	7	86%	43%	97.17
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	84.75
Southern California	US	7	100%	29%	92.29
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	86.40
Eastern Canada (2)	US	8	100%	13%	89.25
Florida	US	4	100%	50%	99.00
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	25%	90.58
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	84.44
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	10	90%	20%	82.78
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	2	100%	0%	89.00
Midwest	US	9	100%	44%	93.67
North	US	4	100%	25%	97.50
Northeast	US	11	100%	36%	89.09
Pacific	US	8	100%	38%	97.75
Southeast	US	12	100%	8%	83.58
Upstate NY	US	6	100%	50%	90.50