massive - 2025 ACF Fall

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Description acceptable. The mechanism that causes the W and Z bosons to have this property (10[1])is initiated by spontaneous (10[1])symmetry (10[1])breaking (-5[1])in a “Mexican (10[1])hat” potential. (10[4]-5[1])Neutrinos (10[1])were shown to have (10[1])this property (10[5]-5[2])by Super-Kamiokande’s (-5[3])(“KAH-mee-oh-KAHN-day’s”) discovery of neutrino (10[1])oscillation. (10[1]-5[1])Louis (10[1])de Broglie (10[5]-5[3])(“duh BROY”) theorized that particles (-5[2])with this property (-5[2])have a nonzero (-5[1])wavelength. (10[3]-5[3])The Higgs (10[3])field causes (-5[1])some particles (-5[1])to (10[1])have (10[1])this (10[1])property. (10[13]-5[1])Particles (10[4])with this property (10[1])must (10[1])have a nonzero rest energy and cannot travel at the (10[1])speed of light. (10[13]-5[1])Objects with this property (10[1]-5[1])cause (10[1])four-dimensional spacetime (10[1])to curve according (10[2])to general (10[1])relativity. (10[4])For 10 points, describe this property of objects measuring (10[1])more than zero kilograms. (10[2])■END■ (10[15]0[2])

ANSWER: massive [accept descriptions of particles with positive rest mass; accept descriptions of particles with positive rest energy until “rest”; reject answers that just mention “energy”]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Taran Knutson	Michigan A	Louisville C	14	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Lehigh A	18	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	UConn A	19	10
Aaryan Sumesh	Berkeley Archer Queen	UCSC	20	-5
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	Louisville A	23	10
Advai Srinivasan	UC Irvine	UCSD A	25	10
Nate Brown	CWRU C	Ohio State B	25	10
Zaid Asif	NYU A	Princeton	25	-5
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Tennessee Tech	25	10
Peter Smith	Binghamton A	Rochester	25	10
Ty Brennan	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Skeleton King	26	10
Wesley Stine	Clemson A	South Carolina A	30	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill A	32	-5
Devito Stevanus	McGill B	Ottawa B	32	10
Pace Klein	CWRU B	Michigan State C	32	10
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Tufts B	32	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Brown B	32	-5
Jeremy Scurlock	Chipola College	Auburn B	32	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Montevallo	32	10
Justin Sato	Stanford A	Stanford B	34	-5
Alden Thompson	Carleton A	Carleton B	34	-5
Daniel Lu	Washington Pink	Boise State	34	-5
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	37	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	South Florida A	38	-5
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	Texas	38	10
Stephen Donoghue	Sheffield B	Durham D	39	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	Claremont C	41	-5
Nick Machin	UCLA A	UCLA C	41	10
Samuel Li	William & Mary A	UNC B	41	10
Kevin Cronk	Virginia Tech C	William & Mary B	41	10
Cooper Morris	Columbia B	Rutgers D	41	-5
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Boston College B	41	-5
Alex Forman	Cornell D	Cornell C	41	10
Alex Forman	Cornell D	Cornell C	41	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Georgia Tech D	44	-5
Nitinkisor Rajesh Kumar	Edinburgh B	Sheffield A	44	-5
Daniel Rosado	UCLA D	USC A	47	-5
Emma Gates	Brown A	Dartmouth B	47	-5
Minh Nguyen	Cornell B	RIT B	50	-5
Danny Han	Stanford B	Stanford A	51	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida Tech B	51	-5
Leonard Castine	Penn	Lehigh B	51	10
Will Huang	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	51	10
Daniel Chen	Emory A	Clemson B	51	-5
Andreas Ktori	Durham A	Edinburgh D	51	-5
Annika Larson	Claremont A	UCLA E	53	10
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	Washington Atlantic	53	10
Charlotte Nicholas	Durham B	Edinburgh C	53	10
Will Hoover	RIT A	Binghamton B	55	-5
Jesse Mindel	NCSU A	Liberty C	57	-5
Noah Fine	UNC D	Liberty B	58	10
Vedang Singhal	UNC C	Virginia Tech B	59	10
Peter Zeng	Ohio State A	Louisville D	60	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Little Prince	61	10
Ethan Ririe	UCSD B	Claremont B	61	10
Matthew Wozniak	Michigan B	Michigan State B	61	10
Jason Thieu	Michigan State A	CWRU A	61	-5
Gabe Rosen-Turits	NYU B	George Mason C	61	10
Rohit Chintala	Maryland B	Vassar A	61	10
Liam Buck	St. Thomas	Minnesota	61	10
Yvonne Pan	Amherst B	Brandeis Mozart	61	10
Madeline Strauss	Tufts A	Brandeis Beethoven	61	10
Luc Vulliez	Amherst A	MIT B	61	10
Devon Kumar	Tufts C	Williams C	61	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	British Columbia A	61	10
Jackson McDonald	Alabama A	Auburn A	61	10
Daniel Huang	Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt C	61	10
Sarah Silverman	Claremont C	UC Santa Barbara	62	10
Ana Torres	McGill C	Ottawa A	62	10
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Macalester	62	10
Nathan Whittington	Tennessee A	Sewanne	62	10
Charlie Rickards	Ottawa C	McGill E	65	10
Aryan Malhotra	Rutgers C	Stony Brook	66	10
Bharath Ram	Georgia Tech A	Georgia A	76	10
Jas Wang	UCLA F	USC B	79	-5
Chris Chang	USC A	UCLA D	79	10
Peyton Legg	UCF A	Florida A	79	10
Ryan Gomes	Florida Tech A	Florida State A	79	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Pittsburgh	79	10
Oliver Thompson	CWRU D	Michigan D	79	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	JMU A	79	10
Nghia Khau	VCU A	NCSU B	79	10
Andrew Wu	Columbia A	Rowan	79	10
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Vermont A	79	10
Steven Su	Harvard	Southern Connecticut State University A	79	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Arizona State A	79	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	Washington Sockeye	79	10
Aaron Wang	Cornell A	Binghamton C	79	10
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin B	83	-5
Thaddeus Holmes	Durham C	York	83	10
Artem Vovchenko	Ohio State C	WVU A	84	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	Washington Masu	86	10
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	William & Mary C	89	10
Nathaniel Martin	Brandeis Bach	Boston University A	89	10
Andrew Heller	Georgia Tech E	Clemson C	91	10
Orin Overmiller	Florida Tech B	ERAU Daytona A	92	10
Zachary Bornstein	Virginia Tech A	JMU B	92	10
Zachary Fitzpatrick	Wisconsin B	Michigan Tech	92	10
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Washington Chinook	92	10
Andrew Sklar	Vassar B	NYU C	101	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	Carleton A	105	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	Ottawa D	105	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Berkeley Archer Queen	106	10
Taman Truong	USC B	UCLA F	106	10
Joshua Ziegler	South Florida A	Florida B	106	10
Sai Subramanian	CWRU A	Michigan State A	106	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	NCSU A	106	10
Henry Ding	Princeton	NYU A	106	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Columbia B	106	10
Jake Markus	Dartmouth B	Brown A	106	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Vermont B	106	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Williams B	106	0
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Pink	106	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Auburn C	106	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Emory A	106	10
Thomas Popham	Edinburgh D	Durham A	106	0
Alex Irvine	Sheffield A	Edinburgh B	106	10
Isaiah Schmid	Binghamton B	RIT A	106	10
Hayley Morris	RIT B	Cornell B	106	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	80%	40%	70.25
Northern California	US	4	100%	50%	61.00
Southern California	US	7	100%	43%	61.00
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	40%	73.80
Florida	US	4	100%	50%	89.00
Great Lakes	US	10	100%	10%	56.30
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	11%	71.56
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	22%	72.11
North	US	4	100%	25%	66.50
Northeast	US	12	92%	25%	68.55
Pacific	US	8	100%	13%	74.25
Southeast	US	12	100%	17%	59.92
Upstate NY	US	6	100%	33%	66.33