One Hundred Years of Solitude - 2025 ACF Fall

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This novel ends with the realization that “races condemned … did not have a second opportunity (10[1])on earth” (10[3])in Gregory (-5[1])Rabassa’s (10[1])translation. After dreaming of a ghost he killed, a character (10[1])in this novel travels until (10[1])he dreams of a “city built with mirrors.” (10[2])One (10[1])of this novel’s (10[2])Segundo twins (10[1])dies (-5[1])reading (10[2]-5[1])of (10[1])a massacre (10[2]-5[1])he witnessed in a Romani (10[2])scholar’s parchments. (10[1])Úrsula’s (10[1]-5[1])incestuous (10[3])marriage (10[7])curses a family (10[4])in this (10[1]-5[1])novel (10[2]-5[1])that (10[1])has (10[3])seventeen (10[2])sons (10[3])with the same name (10[9])and (10[1])a (10[1])baby (10[2]-5[1])with (-5[1])a pig’s (10[1]-5[1])tail. (10[8]-5[2])In this novel, (10[3]-5[1])Melquiades (10[3])is the first (10[1])to be buried (10[2])in a (10[1])town founded (10[1])by José (10[1])Arcadio (10[1])Buendía. (10[5])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])name this magical realist novel (-5[1])set (10[1])in (10[1])Macondo (10[3])by (10[1])Gabriel García (10[3]-5[1])Márquez. (10[2])■END■ (10[11]0[5])

ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude [or Cien años de soledad]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Kara Braun	Michigan State B	Michigan C	15	10
Ana Torres	McGill C	Ottawa B	17	10
Michael Ai	Williams A	Dartmouth A	17	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	RIT A	17	10
Marcus Hoshino	Washington Pink	Texas	19	-5
Sonya Bates	Washington Atlantic	Boise State	20	10
Lily Katz	Stony Brook	Johns Hopkins	30	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Waterloo A	35	10
David Black	Illinois Champaign	Illinois Orange	43	10
Steven Pan	Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	43	10
Tevin Francis	Southampton	Cambridge B	44	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	47	10
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Pittsburgh	47	10
Mary Kate Vance	Louisville A	CWRU A	49	10
Ian Saylor	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	50	-5
Ethan Ririe	UCSD B	Claremont A	51	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	Ohio State B	51	10
Jesse Mindel	NCSU A	Virginia Tech A	51	-5
Ada Bendel	Bristol	Imperial D	52	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Toronto G	54	-5
David Nickel	Purdue A	Illinois Blue	54	10
James Stadler	Imperial B	Cambridge D	54	10
Tristan Scarlett	Ottawa D	McGill B	59	10
Sam Zavadil	Michigan State D	Michigan State C	59	10
Zaid Asif	NYU A	Maryland B	61	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCSD A	62	10
Emily Kadolph	Virginia Tech B	William & Mary A	62	-5
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Vermont B	63	10
William Edwards	Tennessee A	Alabama A	63	10
Scott Hyde	Georgia Tech B	Tennessee Tech	63	10
Mohit Nair	CWRU D	Louisville B	64	10
Tanmay Mirashi	Maryland C	Maryland A	64	10
Brendan Bittmann	Boston College A	Brown B	64	10
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	Auburn B	64	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Clemson A	64	10
Adam Doyle	Cambridge E	Warwick	64	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	Binghamton C	64	10
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	Illinois Canada	67	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Boston University B	67	10
James Haddix	Washington State	Arizona State B	67	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	67	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	Virginia A	69	-5
Finley Campbell	Tufts A	Brown A	69	10
Alden Thompson	Carleton A	Ottawa C	70	10
Johanna Bryant	Liberty A	JMU A	70	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Rutgers A	70	-5
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Arizona State A	71	10
Anna Liao	Michigan B	CWRU B	72	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	William Woods University A	72	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Emory A	72	10
Jeremy Scurlock	Chipola College	Georgia Tech A	73	10
Leona Barker	Edinburgh B	Edinburgh A	73	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Vassar A	74	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Boston University A	74	10
Johnny Myers	Williams B	MIT A	74	10
Katherine Mack	UC Irvine	USC B	78	10
Aarav Kakad	UCLA C	Claremont B	78	10
Henry Siegler	Toronto D	Toronto C	78	10
Sewanth Paudel	Ohio State C	Michigan D	78	10
Anton Akroush	Michigan State A	Michigan A	78	10
Fern Fang	VCU A	UNC C	78	10
Renita Tang	NYU C	Rowan	78	10
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Purdue B	78	10
Andrew Miller	Binghamton A	Cornell A	78	10
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Chicago A	79	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UCLA F	80	10
Henry Nonnemaker	CWRU C	Kentucky	81	10
Fahim Afzal	Cambridge A	Cardiff	81	-5
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Cambridge A	81	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	Ottawa A	82	-5
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	84	10
Cole Hennessy	UCF A	Florida A	84	-5
Diego Monge	Claremont C	UCLA A	85	10
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	Waterloo C	85	-5
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Waterloo B	85	10
Akhil Upadrasta	Ohio State D	WVU A	85	10
David Ropp	Duke A	William & Mary C	85	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Iowa A	85	10
Micah Lauzon	Dartmouth B	Brandeis Mozart	85	10
Kayla Drajpuch	Brandeis Bach	UConn A	85	-5
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Chum	85	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Sewanne	85	10
Chris Wang	Toronto B	Toronto A	88	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	UNC A	88	10
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Princeton	88	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	Washington Sockeye	88	-5
Venkat Das	WVU B	Louisville C	89	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Penn	89	10
Andrew Park	Harvard	MIT B	89	10
Sophia Peng	Rutgers C	Columbia B	92	10
Andrew Lin	Toronto G	Toronto E	95	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Lehigh A	95	10
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	Dartmouth C	97	10
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Clemson B	99	10
Drew Wetterlind	Iowa State	Wisconsin A	101	10
Vishnu Sharma	Texas	Washington Pink	102	10
Elizabeth Bowling	Indiana B	Purdue D	103	10
Ethan Erickson	Boston College B	Amherst B	103	10
Yoyo Liu	British Columbia C	British Columbia A	103	10
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	103	10
Shlok Dev	LSE	Cambridge C	103	10
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Washington Chinook	105	10
Atticus Teter	Durham A	Sheffield B	106	10
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	Purdue C	111	-5
Naayaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial C	112	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Queen's A	113	10
Alice Groth	Durham B	Edinburgh D	114	10
David Latimer	Imperial A	Birmingham	114	10
Gabriel Nell	Cornell B	Rochester	114	10
Joshua Iyo	UNC B	UNC D	115	10
Walter Carson	NCSU B	JMU B	117	-5
Ilyas Choukri	Virginia Tech A	NCSU A	117	10
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	British Columbia B	117	10
Shivam Saxena	Georgia Tech F	Georgia A	117	10
Valentina Chamandy	McGill E	Carleton B	118	10
Samuel Zheng	Toronto F	Toronto I	118	10
Graydon Allard	Ottawa A	McGill A	119	0
Elena Thai	Waterloo C	Guelph A	119	10
Adithya Parat	McMaster C	Brock A	119	0
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	UCF A	119	10
Levan Tsiskarisvili	JMU B	NCSU B	119	0
Gentry Dowdy	Liberty B	Tusculum A	119	0
Meredie Cohen	William & Mary A	Virginia Tech B	119	10
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	George Mason A	119	10
Rishi Swaminathan	NYU B	Columbia A	119	0
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	NYU B	119	10
Claire Harvey	Vassar B	George Mason C	119	10
Lily Hughbanks	Purdue C	Indiana A	119	10
John Halsun	UConn A	Brandeis Bach	119	10
Laura Bullock	Sheffield A	Edinburgh C	119	10
Leo Neve	Durham D	York	119	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Binghamton B	119	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	0%	106.20
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	13%	78.00
Northern California	US	1	100%	0%	47.00
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	74.00
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	80%	20%	66.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	89%	22%	91.38
Florida	US	1	100%	100%	119.00
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	0%	64.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	78%	44%	96.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	8%	85.67
Midwest	US	9	100%	11%	77.78
North	US	1	100%	100%	101.00
Northeast	US	12	100%	8%	76.75
Pacific	US	8	100%	25%	83.75
Southeast	US	12	100%	0%	76.08
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	78.40