Saint Thomas Aquinas - 2025 ACF Fall

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This philosopher defined human law as law “acquired by the effort of reason[ing]” (10[1])from (-5[1])natural law, (-5[1])which is our understanding (10[1])of God’s (10[1])eternal law. (10[3])Philippa Foot (10[2])introduced the trolley problem (10[1])in a paper (10[1])on this philosopher’s (-5[1])distinction between intended (10[1])and foreseen (10[1])consequences, (-5[2])called the doctrine of double effect. (10[5]-5[4])Proper (10[2])authority, (10[2])just cause, (10[1])and (-5[1])rightful (10[2])intention (10[1])are this (-5[1])philosopher’s (10[2]-5[1])three conditions for just (10[1])war. (10[4]-5[3])This (-5[1])Scholastic (10[2]-5[1])philosopher (10[3]-5[4])argued (-5[1])that every (-5[1])motion is caused by another motion, (10[2])so there must be (10[2])an (10[1])“unmoved (10[1])mover,” (10[4]-5[1])in (10[2])the first (10[2]-5[1])of his “five ways” (10[1]-5[1])proving (10[3])the existence of God. (10[7]-5[2])For (10[1])10 (10[1]-5[1])points, (-5[1])name this medieval philosopher (10[1])who wrote (10[1]0[1])Summa (10[1])Theologica. (10[3])■END■ (10[28]0[10])

ANSWER: Saint Thomas Aquinas [or Tommaso d’Aquino; prompt on Saint Thomas or Santo Tommaso]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Imperial D	12	10
Barkot Belay	Emory A	Tennessee Tech	13	-5
Rishi Mathur	Claremont B	Claremont C	15	-5
Charles Miller	William & Mary C	JMU B	19	10
Zach Majorowicz	St. Thomas	Wisconsin B	21	10
Chris Wang	Toronto B	McMaster B	23	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Edinburgh C	23	10
Alex Coleridge	Durham B	Sheffield B	23	10
Neela Perceval-Maxwell	McGill E	Carleton A	25	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Southern Connecticut State University A	25	10
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	Michigan C	29	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	Liberty C	32	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	Claremont A	35	-5
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Illinois Urbana	38	10
Kevin Liu	Maryland A	George Mason B	40	10
Neal Tandon	Columbia B	Columbia A	41	-5
Sonali Srikanth	Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	41	-5
Andrew Harms	Michigan State A	Michigan D	47	10
Snehan Saroch	Louisville A	Ohio State C	47	-5
David Ropp	Duke A	UNC B	47	10
Connor Kahn	NCSU A	Virginia A	47	-5
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	Virginia Tech A	47	-5
Yiwei Jiang	NYU C	Maryland B	47	-5
Liam Markland	Alberta A	Washington Chinook	47	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Georgia Tech F	47	10
Jolie Yeh	Warwick	Imperial C	47	10
John Maupin	Chipola College	Montevallo	48	10
Brooks Phillips	Auburn A	Georgia A	48	10
Pace Klein	CWRU B	Ohio State B	49	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Rose-Hulman A	49	10
Bolun Thompson	UCLA C	UC Irvine	51	10
Chen Nagahawatte	Ottawa B	McGill A	52	-5
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCLA F	53	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Clemson A	53	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill C	54	10
James Stadler	Imperial B	Birmingham	56	-5
Oliver Thompson	CWRU D	WVU B	57	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	NCSU A	57	10
Fern Fang	VCU A	UNC C	57	-5
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech B	UNC A	61	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Maryland C	62	10
Tosca Zhang	NYU A	George Mason C	62	-5
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Illinois Champaign	62	-5
Merrick Hill	Iowa State	Michigan Tech	62	-5
Carson Kessler	Washington Pink	Washington Chum	62	10
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Cambridge D	62	10
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge B	LSE	62	10
Indigo Chen	Waterloo C	Brock A	63	-5
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa A	64	10
Omer Korkmaz	Johns Hopkins	Rutgers D	64	-5
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Arizona State A	64	10
AnnaMaria Donnelly	UCF A	Florida B	65	-5
Emmet Ewing	Michigan State B	Kentucky	65	10
Matthew Wozniak	Michigan B	WVU A	65	10
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	Illinois Blue	65	-5
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Clemson C	65	10
Niyanthi Yamunan	Georgia Tech E	Tennessee B	65	-5
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Mississippi State A	65	-5
Harry Fines	York	Durham A	66	-5
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCLA E	68	-5
Gavin Chen	Vassar A	Penn	74	10
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Wisconsin C	74	10
Henry Ding	Princeton	Rutgers C	78	10
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Iowa B	78	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Alberta B	79	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	Stanford A	80	10
Adithya Parat	McMaster C	Toronto H	81	10
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	Rutgers B	81	-5
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Purdue A	81	10
William Edwards	Tennessee A	Vanderbilt B	81	10
Judah Garlic	Cornell C	Binghamton A	81	10
Diego Monge	Claremont C	Claremont B	82	10
Sparrow Brotman	NYU B	Stony Brook	82	10
Misty Chen	Purdue C	Chicago A	84	-5
Ethan Enochian	Purdue D	William Woods University A	84	10
Josh Morris	Bristol	Imperial A	84	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Ohio State A	88	-5
Quinn Doyle	Macalester	Wisconsin A	88	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Toronto C	89	10
Kamil Boehm	Cambridge A	Cambridge E	89	10
Danny Cutbill	RIT A	Binghamton C	89	10
Chris Chang	USC A	USC B	93	-5
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Toronto F	93	10
Christina Popov	Queen's A	Toronto I	93	10
Kevin He	Toronto A	Waterloo B	93	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	South Florida A	93	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Lehigh A	93	-5
Bharath Ram	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	93	10
Brandon Hunt	Auburn B	Sewanne	93	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Cornell A	93	10
Zaire Gibbons	Toronto D	Guelph A	94	10
Ryan Gomes	Florida Tech A	ERAU Daytona A	95	-5
Tevin Francis	Southampton	Oxford	95	10
Vishnu Sharma	Texas	Washington Coho	96	-5
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	British Columbia A	100	10
Alex Mayernick	Lehigh A	Rowan	102	0
Jack Disbury	Durham D	Durham C	102	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UCLA B	103	10
Vivienne Ruemler	USC B	USC A	104	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	Ohio State D	104	10
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	Columbia B	104	10
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley Mighty Miner	UCSC	105	10
Adrian Li	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Skeleton King	105	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Boss Bandit	105	10
Annika Larson	Claremont A	UCSD A	105	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCSD B	105	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	Ottawa B	105	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	Ottawa C	105	0
Charlie Rickards	Ottawa C	Carleton B	105	0
Adrian O'Leary	Waterloo A	Toronto G	105	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida B	UCF A	105	10
Orin Overmiller	Florida Tech B	Florida State A	105	0
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	CWRU A	105	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Michigan State D	105	10
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Louisville A	105	10
Carly Hemani	JMU A	Tusculum A	105	10
Sophia Jagels	William & Mary B	UNC D	105	10
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	VCU A	105	10
Zachary Bornstein	Virginia Tech A	William & Mary A	105	10
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	NYU A	105	10
Rohit Chintala	Maryland B	NYU C	105	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Johns Hopkins	105	0
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Purdue C	105	10
Elizabeth Bowling	Indiana B	Chicago B	105	10
Kevin Yang	Illinois Blue	Indiana A	105	10
Alex Matchinski	Michigan Tech	Iowa State	105	10
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Arizona State B	105	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	Texas	105	0
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Washington Sockeye	105	0
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	Washington Masu	105	0
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech E	105	0
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt A	105	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Auburn C	105	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Emory A	105	10
Atticus Teter	Durham A	York	105	0
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Edinburgh D	105	0
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Imperial B	105	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Cornell D	105	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	RIT B	105	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	60%	20%	49.33
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	13%	69.50
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	98.75
Southern California	US	7	100%	57%	86.14
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	80%	20%	62.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	89%	11%	83.88
Florida	US	4	50%	50%	99.00
Great Lakes	US	10	100%	20%	73.10
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	33%	70.67
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	1	100%	100%	104.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	8	88%	38%	78.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	2	0%	100%
Midwest	US	9	89%	33%	80.63
North	US	4	100%	25%	72.00
Northeast	US	1	100%	0%	25.00
Pacific	US	8	75%	13%	76.17
Southeast	US	12	92%	33%	76.64
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	94.60