summer - 2025 ACF Fall

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This time period partially titles a franchise in which a pageant performance of Irene Cara’s “Fame” occurs while a killer attacks on a balcony. The Taylor’s (10[1])Version of “This Love” premiered in trailers for a show named for this time period, (10[5]-5[1])which also partially (-5[1])names a 2025 (10[1])horror sequel (10[2]-5[1])starring Jennifer Love (10[1])Hewitt. (10[1])This time period (10[1])names a (10[1])Taylor (10[2])Swift (10[1]-5[1])song (10[1])that states (10[3])“no rules (-5[1])in breakable heaven,” (10[2]-5[2])which (10[1])plays (10[2])while (10[1])Belly (10[6])gets ready (10[1])to go to (10[2]-5[1])Cousins (10[5])in an Amazon (10[3])Prime (10[1])series. (10[5])Phineas and (10[1])Ferb’s (10[1])theme (10[1])song (10[5])claims (10[1])there (10[2])are (10[3])104 (10[9])days (10[6])in (10[2])this (10[2])time (10[3])period. (10[4])For 10 points, Billboard tracks the “songs of” (10[1])what season when one can celebrate the Fourth of July? ■END■

ANSWER: summer [accept song of the summer; accept Songs of the Summer; accept summer vacation; accept “Cruel Summer;” accept The Summer I Turned Pretty; accept last summer; accept I Know What You Did Last Summer; prompt on vacation with “what other time period describes that vacation?;” prompt on last year by asking “what time period within last year?;” prompt on 1996 by asking “what time period within 1996?”]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Liam Buck	St. Thomas	Minnesota	25	10
Anjali Rao	Ottawa B	McGill B	40	10
Anna Liao	Michigan B	Michigan State B	40	10
Emma Gates	Brown A	Dartmouth B	40	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Brown B	40	-5
Salil Jain	Williams B	Boston College B	40	10
Gabrielle Smith	Auburn A	Alabama A	40	10
Sruti Banerjee	Washington Chinook	British Columbia B	43	-5
Quinn Doyle	Macalester	Wisconsin C	46	10
William Erwin	William & Mary B	Virginia Tech C	48	-5
Noah Lang	Wisconsin B	Michigan Tech	48	10
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	Washington Chum	48	10
Jennifer Zhu	McGill C	Ottawa A	51	10
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	UNC B	52	10
Jason Cottle	Clemson C	Georgia Tech E	55	10
Zeke Collins	Auburn B	Chipola College	57	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	Cornell C	58	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	Cornell C	58	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	UCSC	59	-5
Pallas Allen	South Florida A	Florida B	59	10
Brady Bier	Boston University A	Brandeis Bach	60	10
Taylor Smallacombe	VCU A	NCSU B	62	10
James Wan	Penn	Lehigh B	62	10
Marin Katz	Amherst B	Brandeis Mozart	62	10
Ruby Eisenberg	Boise State	Washington Pink	64	-5
Molly Krallman	Louisville C	Michigan A	67	10
Jason Thieu	Michigan State A	CWRU A	67	10
Sammy Carstens	Rochester	Binghamton A	67	-5
Will Hoover	RIT A	Binghamton B	67	-5
Noah Fine	UNC D	Liberty B	68	10
Mia Liu	Berkeley Little Prince	Berkeley Boss Bandit	69	10
Alex Grigoriades	Lehigh A	Johns Hopkins	69	10
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	Tufts A	70	10
Aarav Kakad	UCLA C	UCLA A	71	10
Gary Wang	Michigan D	CWRU D	71	10
Marcus Hoshino	Washington Pink	Boise State	71	10
Daniel Chen	Emory A	Clemson B	71	10
Alina Moore	Tennessee A	Sewanne	71	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	Rochester	71	10
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	Washington Atlantic	73	10
Katherine Mack	UC Irvine	UCSD A	76	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	Louisville A	76	-5
Mary Kate Vance	Louisville A	Kentucky	76	10
Yuv Magan	UCSD B	Claremont B	77	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Columbia B	77	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	UConn A	77	10
Vishnu Sharma	Texas	Washington Steelhead	77	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Georgia Tech D	77	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill A	80	10
Bonham Buchannon	Louisville D	Ohio State A	80	10
Johanna Bryant	Liberty A	William & Mary C	80	10
Zoe Brennan	Virginia Tech C	William & Mary B	81	10
Grace Hardy	USC A	UCLA D	82	10
Tobias Zajac	Michigan State C	CWRU B	82	10
Brayden Whitlow	George Mason C	NYU B	82	10
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Washington State	82	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Tennessee Tech	82	10
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Tufts B	84	10
Brandom Pham	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Mighty Miner	85	10
Neela Perceval-Maxwell	McGill E	Ottawa C	86	10
Cole Hennessy	UCF A	Florida A	87	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Michigan C	87	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	Princeton	87	10
Gavin Rittgers	South Carolina A	Clemson A	87	10
Molly Oakley	Binghamton C	Cornell A	87	10
Luke Houtz	Arizona State B	British Columbia A	88	10
Nova Sink	Virginia Tech A	JMU B	89	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	MIT B	89	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	Florida Tech A	90	10
Nathan Sprouse	Virginia Tech B	UNC C	90	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Georgia Tech F	90	10
Scarlet Rutter	Claremont A	UCLA E	91	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	Carleton A	91	10
Artem Vovchenko	Ohio State C	WVU A	91	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	JMU A	91	10
Alex Emmert	Maryland B	Vassar A	91	10
Ian Saylor	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	91	10
Devon Kumar	Tufts C	Williams C	91	10
Matthew Bray	Auburn C	Tennessee B	91	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	91	10
Arjun Saulnier	CWRU C	Ohio State B	92	10
John Gamble	NCSU A	Liberty C	92	10
Sam Millenbach	Rowan	Columbia A	92	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Harvard	92	10
Pranav Jothi	Georgia Tech A	Georgia A	92	10
Jake Scoville	RIT B	Cornell B	92	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	Claremont C	93	10
Will Massey	Florida Tech B	ERAU Daytona A	93	10
Lily Katz	Stony Brook	Rutgers C	94	10
William Berger	Dartmouth C	Vermont A	94	10
Brian Hobmann	UCLA F	USC B	95	10
Claire Harvey	Vassar B	NYU C	95	10
Kylie Tokeshi	Arizona State A	Alberta B	95	10
Justin Sato	Stanford A	Stanford B	96	10
Huy Lai	UCSC	Berkeley Archer Queen	96	10
Kaylee Gilbert	Brown B	Vermont B	96	10
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	RIT A	96	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	Washington Chinook	104	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
Northern California	US	4	100%	25%	86.50
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	83.57
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	69.60
Florida	US	4	100%	0%	82.25
Great Lakes	US	10	100%	10%	75.30
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	11%	78.33
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	83.22
North	US	4	100%	0%	52.50
Northeast	US	12	100%	8%	74.58
Pacific	US	8	100%	25%	79.75
Southeast	US	12	100%	0%	75.33
Upstate NY	US	6	100%	33%	77.00