Janus - 2025 ACF Fall

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In one speech to a poet, this god claimed that the ancients called him Chaos, giving credence to a possible folk etymology for his name. This god compares his duties to Hecate but notes that he doesn’t have to lose time twisting his neck. (10[1]-5[1])This god (10[3])was given (10[3])the epithets (10[3]-5[1])Patulcius (10[1]-5[1])(“pah-TOOL-kee-us”) and Clusius (“CLOO-see-us”) depending on whether (10[1])his temple (10[1])was (10[1])opened or closed (10[16])during (10[6])war (10[5])and (10[2])peace, (10[11])respectively. (10[10]-5[1])This (10[1])Roman god, (10[5]-5[1])who is (10[1])often depicted with a (10[1]-5[1])staff and a key, (10[3]-5[2])is the dedicatee (10[3])of Book (-5[1])I of Ovid’s Fasti, (10[1])as he is the namesake of the first month (10[2])of the (10[2])Julian calendar. (10[15])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2]-5[1])name (10[1])this (10[1])two-headed (10[4])Roman god (10[3])of gates (10[2])and doorways. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Janus [or Ianus (“YAH-noos”); accept Patulcius or Clusius until read]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Pittsburgh	43	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Rutgers A	43	-5
Andrew Nucci	UCLA B	UC Santa Barbara	45	10
Abbott Sherwin	NCSU A	Virginia Tech A	45	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	45	10
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Washington Sockeye	47	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech B	47	10
Gabriel Nell	Cornell B	Rochester	47	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	CWRU C	49	10
Sonya Bates	Washington Atlantic	Boise State	49	-5
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Arizona State A	49	10
Antara Bhattacharya	Cambridge A	Cardiff	49	10
Stella Brown	Washington Masu	Washington Chinook	50	10
Saleena Livera	Imperial B	Cambridge D	50	-5
Tristan Scarlett	Ottawa D	McGill B	55	10
Nathan Sprouse	Virginia Tech B	William & Mary A	57	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UCLA F	58	10
Yuv Magan	UCSD B	Claremont A	61	10
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	McMaster A	61	10
Thomas Jenkins	Michigan B	CWRU B	61	10
David Ropp	Duke A	William & Mary C	61	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	Virginia A	61	10
Micah Williams	VCU A	UNC C	61	10
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Maryland C	61	10
Andrew Wu	Columbia A	NYU B	61	10
Owen Ashbrook	Iowa A	Rose-Hulman A	61	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	WashU Grizzlers	61	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Boston College A	61	10
Marc Greco	Williams A	Dartmouth A	61	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	Williams B	61	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Emory A	61	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	61	10
Owen Feng	Vanderbilt A	Clemson A	61	10
Deepanshi Matai	Toronto C	Toronto D	62	10
Joshua Garner	Ohio State A	Ohio State B	62	10
Noah Fine	UNC D	UNC B	62	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	WashU Grolars	62	10
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	Illinois Blue	62	10
Naayaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial C	62	10
Charlotte Bauer	McGill C	Ottawa B	63	10
Adithya Parat	McMaster C	Brock A	63	10
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Chicago B	63	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Clemson C	63	10
Claire Chambers	Binghamton A	Cornell A	63	10
Anthony Gagliano	McGill A	Ottawa A	64	10
Eugene Kim	Purdue D	Indiana B	64	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCSD A	65	10
Angelo Pan	CWRU A	Louisville A	65	10
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	Michigan State A	65	10
Zaid Asif	NYU A	Maryland B	65	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Vassar A	65	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	65	10
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Tufts A	65	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Chum	65	10
Logan Patil	Georgia Tech F	Georgia A	65	10
Devin Tharp	Chipola College	Georgia Tech A	65	10
Niyanthi Yamunan	Georgia Tech E	Auburn B	65	10
Jackson Crickard	Claremont B	UCLA C	66	10
Sewanth Paudel	Ohio State C	Michigan D	66	10
Arlene Lopez	Stony Brook	Johns Hopkins	66	10
Ba Loc Dinh	Illinois Urbana	William Woods University A	66	10
Jake Markus	Dartmouth B	Brandeis Mozart	66	10
Kenner Bailey	Boston University A	Vermont A	66	10
James Haddix	Washington State	Arizona State B	66	-5
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Tennessee A	66	10
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	66	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Georgia Tech D	66	10
Eoghan Herriot	Durham D	York	66	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Amherst A	67	10
Saju Ramraj	Toronto I	Toronto F	69	-5
Peyton Legg	UCF A	Florida A	69	10
William Cowperthwait	NCSU B	JMU B	69	10
Alex Mayernick	Lehigh A	Lehigh B	69	10
Cooper Morris	Columbia B	Rutgers C	69	10
Charlie Nicholls	Cambridge C	LSE	69	10
Neela Perceval-Maxwell	McGill E	Carleton B	71	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Archer Queen	75	-5
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Michigan State B	75	10
Aidan Hoffner	McMaster B	Waterloo B	79	-5
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Brandeis Beethoven	79	10
Mata Cooper	Southampton	Cambridge B	79	-5
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	Imperial B	79	10
Connor Yu	Cornell C	Binghamton C	79	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	CWRU D	82	10
Johanna Bryant	Liberty A	JMU A	82	10
John Shelly	Rowan	NYU C	82	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Boston University B	84	-5
Vishnu Sharma	Texas	Washington Pink	88	10
Sophia Schlag	Ottawa C	Carleton A	97	10
Will Hoover	RIT A	Cornell D	97	10
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	Vassar B	99	10
Ollie Glin-Conway	Imperial D	Bristol	99	10
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	Claremont C	101	10
Monica Wang	Guelph A	Waterloo C	101	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Toronto E	101	10
Thomas Vukovic	Toronto H	Queen's A	101	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	George Mason A	101	10
Leonard Castine	Penn	George Mason B	101	10
Lily Hughbanks	Purdue C	Indiana A	101	10
Yvonne Pan	Amherst B	Boston College B	101	10
Andrew Park	Harvard	MIT B	101	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Coho	101	10
Isy Simpkins	Durham B	Edinburgh D	101	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Edinburgh B	101	10
Stephen Donoghue	Sheffield B	Durham A	101	10
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Imperial A	101	10
Rory Moloney	Cambridge E	Warwick	101	10
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Sheffield A	103	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	104	10
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis Bach	UConn A	104	10
Ethan Miniard	Montevallo	Sewanne	104	-5
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Princeton	105	10
Akhil Upadrasta	Ohio State D	WVU A	106	10
Ellen Ge	Toronto A	Toronto B	107	10
Caleigh Greene	Tusculum A	Liberty B	107	10
David Black	Illinois Champaign	Illinois Orange	107	10
Anna Inman	ESF	Binghamton B	107	10
Sage Saperstein	USC B	UC Irvine	109	10
Tobias Zajac	Michigan State C	Michigan State D	109	10
Oliver West	Cambridge B	Southampton	109	10
Hanson Hunynh	Boston University B	Tufts C	111	10
Charles Xin	British Columbia A	British Columbia C	111	10
Jeremy Kim	Toronto F	Toronto I	113	10
Nina Chen	Waterloo B	McMaster B	114	10
Pratham Bhanushali	WVU B	Louisville C	114	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	Washington State	114	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	0%	94.40
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	25%	83.63
Northern California	US	1	100%	100%	104.00
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	72.14
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	70.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	22%	91.44
Florida	US	1	100%	0%	69.00
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	0%	74.75
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	67.22
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	8%	78.67
Midwest	US	9	100%	0%	71.89
North	US	1	100%	0%	65.00
Northeast	US	12	100%	8%	78.58
Pacific	US	9	89%	22%	78.13
Southeast	US	13	92%	8%	60.92
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	78.60