Sioux - 2025 ACF Fall

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These people sourced red stone for cultural ceremonies at the Pipestone quarries. These people’s defeat at the Battle of (10[1])Wood Lake caused Little Crow to accuse friendly “traitors” of assisting Henry Hastings Sibley. Thirty-eight of these people were hanged in (10[1])Mankato (10[3]-5[1])in the largest mass (10[2])execution (10[3]-5[1])in US (10[1]-5[1])history. (10[3]-5[1])These people (-5[1])signed the (10[1])Treaty (10[1])of Fort Laramie (10[7]-5[1])after (10[2])winning (10[4]-5[1])Red Cloud’s (10[5])War, (10[3])which (10[1])temporarily (10[4])granted them (10[1])control (10[1])of the Black (10[1])Hills. (10[16]-5[1])A (10[2])variation (10[4]-5[1])of the (10[3])Ghost (10[5])Dance (10[2])spiritual movement (10[2]-5[1])was (10[1])practiced (10[1])by a subgroup (-5[1])of this tribe (10[2])led (10[1])by Sitting Bull. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])members of what Native American tribe (10[2])from the Great (-5[1])Plains were massacred at Wounded Knee? (10[4])■END■ (10[12]0[2])

ANSWER: Sioux (“soo”) [accept Lakota or Dakota or Yankton or Santee or Mdewakanton]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Coho	18	10
Jack Granahan	Brandeis Mozart	Dartmouth A	39	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UC Irvine	40	-5
Matthew Bucek	George Mason A	Columbia B	40	10
Virginia Brooks	Minnesota	Michigan Tech	40	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Wisconsin C	40	10
Yuv Magan	UCSD B	USC A	44	10
Gabriel Nell	Cornell B	Cornell D	44	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill E	45	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Tufts C	45	10
Kushagra Bahuguna	Washington Chinook	British Columbia A	45	10
Jason Cottle	Clemson C	Clemson A	45	-5
Nova Sink	Virginia Tech A	William & Mary C	47	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	NYU B	47	-5
Delilah Brumer	UCLA A	UCLA E	48	-5
Liam Henderson	McMaster B	Queen's A	48	10
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Stony Brook	48	10
Liam Buck	St. Thomas	Iowa State	48	10
Allen Xu	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	50	-5
Suhaan Pastakia	Maryland C	Rutgers D	52	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Vanderbilt B	53	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	USC B	56	10
Enina Edosomwan	CWRU A	Ohio State D	56	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	CWRU B	56	10
Joshua Lam	Ohio State B	Michigan State C	56	10
Jesse Mindel	NCSU A	Liberty B	56	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Vassar B	56	10
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Purdue B	56	-5
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Boston College B	56	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Georgia Tech B	57	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Chipola College	57	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UCLA C	58	-5
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida Tech A	58	10
Venkat Das	WVU B	Michigan State A	58	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Blue	58	10
Wren Horne-Sarkees	Harvard	Tufts B	58	10
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	Ottawa C	60	10
Kara Braun	Michigan State B	Michigan State D	60	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Washington Masu	60	10
George Reid	Alberta B	Washington Pink	60	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech F	60	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	Carleton A	61	10
Penelope Graham	Williams B	MIT B	61	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Vanderbilt A	61	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Amherst A	62	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	Louisville D	63	10
Thomas Jenkins	Michigan B	Louisville B	63	10
Peter Zeng	Ohio State A	CWRU D	63	10
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Brandeis Bach	63	10
Andrew Stappenbeck	CWRU C	Michigan A	65	10
Elizabeth Bowling	Indiana B	Purdue C	66	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Rutgers C	69	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	70	10
Thomas Wu	Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford B	70	-5
Mai Höglund	Claremont B	UCLA D	70	10
Jas Wang	UCLA F	Claremont C	70	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Waterloo B	70	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida Tech B	70	10
Peyton Legg	UCF A	Florida State A	70	10
Aiden Hart	Kentucky	WVU A	70	10
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech B	VCU A	70	10
Elias Lowrey	Lehigh B	Maryland B	70	10
Johnathan Li	Penn	Rutgers B	70	10
Sam Millenbach	Rowan	Johns Hopkins	70	10
Ethan Enochian	Purdue D	Illinois Champaign	70	10
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	William Woods University A	70	10
Annabelle Koopmans	Washington Atlantic	Texas	70	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	Washington Sockeye	70	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Vanderbilt C	70	10
Vedang Singhal	UNC C	Tusculum A	71	10
Harper Royal	Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech A	71	10
Gus Morin-Strom	Carleton B	McGill A	72	10
Stella Broome	Virginia A	William & Mary B	72	-5
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Urbana	72	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Williams A	72	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech D	72	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Archer Queen	74	10
Caleb Hines	Liberty A	UNC B	74	10
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	Princeton	74	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Louisville C	75	10
Alex Mayernick	Lehigh A	Columbia A	75	10
Caleb Ellenberg	Brown B	Amherst B	75	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Chum	75	10
Justin Gilbert	Auburn C	Auburn A	75	10
David Ropp	Duke A	JMU B	76	10
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	Virginia Tech C	76	10
Ethan Altshul	Emory A	Auburn B	78	10
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Sewanne	78	10
Molly Oakley	Binghamton C	Binghamton A	78	-5
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	Arizona State B	79	10
Will Hoover	RIT A	Cornell A	80	10
Yuval Klein	Williams C	Boston University A	83	-5
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto D	Toronto A	86	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Brandeis Beethoven	86	10
Eric Lipsutz	Chicago B	Illinois Orange	87	10
Pallas Allen	South Florida A	ERAU Daytona A	90	10
Owen Ashbrook	Iowa A	Purdue A	90	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	Williams C	90	10
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	RIT B	90	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Toronto B	93	10
Walter Carson	NCSU B	JMU A	99	10
Francis Dinh	Illinois Canada	Iowa B	99	10
Thomas Brittain	McMaster C	Guelph A	102	-5
Aarav Kakad	UCLA C	UCSD A	108	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Toronto F	108	10
Ben Schindelman	Vassar A	NYU C	108	10
Finley Campbell	Tufts A	Boston University B	108	10
Surya Donath	Stanford A	Berkeley Mighty Miner	109	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Skeleton King	109	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UCLA A	109	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Brock A	109	10
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	Toronto I	109	0
Hafsa Shaikh	Toronto I	Waterloo A	109	0
Ethen Sun	Toronto C	Waterloo C	109	10
Sophia Jagels	William & Mary B	Virginia A	109	10
Sparrow Brotman	NYU B	NYU A	109	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	WashU Grolars	109	10
Quinn Doyle	Macalester	Wisconsin B	109	10
Wesley Stine	Clemson A	Clemson C	109	10
Peter Smith	Binghamton A	Binghamton C	109	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	ESF	109	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
Northern California	US	4	100%	25%	90.50
Southern California	US	7	86%	43%	76.17
Eastern Canada (1)	US	4	100%	0%	59.50
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	78%	11%	89.00
Florida	US	4	100%	0%	72.00
Great Lakes	US	11	100%	0%	62.27
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	11%	75.33
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	8%	70.08
Midwest	US	9	100%	11%	80.11
North	US	4	100%	0%	59.25
Northeast	US	12	100%	8%	67.92
Pacific	US	8	100%	0%	59.63
Southeast	US	12	100%	17%	70.08
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	20%	86.40