United States citizenship - 2025 ACF Fall

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Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. The non-exclusivity of this status was solidified in the Bancroft Treaties. A defendant unknowingly granted this status was denied it in Perez (10[1])v. Brownwell, (-5[1])which was overturned nine years later in Afroyim v. Rusk. (10[2])The rights granted by this status (10[1])were found (-5[1])not to apply to (-5[1])unionized (10[1])butchers in the Slaughter-House Cases. (-5[3])United States v. Wong Kim (10[1])Ark (10[7])affirmed (10[6]-5[1])the (10[1]-5[1])jus (10[2])soli (10[6]-5[1])principle (10[5]-5[1])for granting (10[2])this (10[1])status, (10[23]-5[2])which (10[1])was found (10[2]-5[1])to not (10[1])apply (10[1])for slaves (10[3])in (10[1])Dred Scott (10[4]-5[1])v. Sandford. (10[9]-5[1])An (10[1])oral civics test is a requirement for attaining (10[1])this (10[3])status. (10[7])For 10 points, (10[1])name this status granted by the Fourteenth Amendment (10[1]0[1])to individuals born on United States soil. (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

ANSWER: United States citizenship [or being a citizen or national of the United States of America or equivalents; accept US or USA or America in place of “United States”; accept citizenship or natural born-citizenship alone after “United States” is read; prompt on citizenship or natural-born citizenship alone before “United States” is read by asking “of what country?”; prompt on being born in the United States by asking “what status does that grant the individual?”; prompt on being American or from the United States or being native to the United States]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Illinois Champaign	33	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Chum	35	-5
Daniel Huang	Michigan C	Michigan State B	45	10
Indigo Khanna	Vermont B	Amherst A	45	10
Finley Campbell	Tufts A	Brown A	51	10
Thomas Brittain	McMaster C	Brock A	53	-5
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	Illinois Blue	57	-5
David Ropp	Duke A	William & Mary C	58	10
Eli Young	Vassar A	Rutgers D	63	-5
Luke Bromley	Indiana B	Purdue D	63	-5
Wesley Stine	Clemson A	Vanderbilt A	63	-5
Gary Wang	Michigan D	Ohio State C	68	10
Vivian Fan	Claremont A	UCSD B	69	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	WVU A	69	10
Ilyas Choukri	Virginia Tech A	NCSU A	69	10
Meredie Cohen	William & Mary A	Virginia Tech B	69	10
William Kiker	Dartmouth A	Williams A	69	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	Williams B	69	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	Arizona State B	69	10
Anton Akroush	Michigan State A	Michigan A	70	10
Eric Cameron	Michigan State C	Michigan State D	70	-5
Venkat Das	WVU B	Louisville C	70	10
Ezra Zareba	UNC B	UNC D	70	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Lehigh A	70	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	Maryland B	70	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Wisconsin A	70	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	William Woods University A	71	-5
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Georgia Tech F	71	10
Jeremy Katen	George Mason A	Rutgers A	72	10
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	Maryland A	72	10
Dawson Teu	Waterloo A	McMaster A	73	10
James Fan	Toronto E	Toronto G	73	10
Wyatt Johnson	CWRU B	Michigan B	73	10
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Chicago A	73	10
Yvonne Pan	Amherst B	Boston College B	73	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	Vermont A	73	10
Gabriel Nell	Cornell B	Rochester	73	-5
James Xiao	Toronto A	Toronto B	74	10
Aiden Hart	Kentucky	CWRU C	74	-5
Leonard Castine	Penn	George Mason B	74	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Stony Brook	74	10
Magnolia Schnirman Barría	NYU B	Columbia A	74	10
Coy Mier	Auburn B	Georgia Tech E	74	10
Bolun Thompson	UCLA C	Claremont B	76	10
Joseph Cole	UNC A	Virginia A	76	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	McGill E	77	10
Katherine Mack	UC Irvine	USC B	78	-5
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UC Santa Barbara	78	10
Nick Machin	UCLA A	Claremont C	78	10
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa A	McGill A	78	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa D	78	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	Ottawa B	78	10
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto D	Toronto C	78	10
Samuel Zheng	Toronto F	Toronto I	78	10
Gavin Ge	Waterloo B	McMaster B	78	10
Matthew Stall	CWRU D	Louisville B	78	10
Andrew McKenzie	Ohio State B	Ohio State A	78	10
Jun Chen	George Mason C	Vassar B	78	10
Mica Oestreich	Illinois Canada	Chicago B	78	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Brown B	78	10
Jack Granahan	Brandeis Mozart	Dartmouth B	78	10
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Brandeis Beethoven	78	-5
John Halsun	UConn A	Brandeis Bach	78	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	British Columbia A	78	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Texas	78	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	Alberta B	78	10
Ritwik Sharma	Arizona State A	Washington Steelhead	78	10
Brooks Phillips	Auburn A	Emory A	78	10
Steven Pan	Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	78	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	78	10
Connor Yu	Cornell C	Binghamton C	78	10
Michael Zheng	UCLA F	UCLA E	79	10
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	VCU A	81	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Clemson C	81	-5
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	Cornell A	81	10
Annabelle Koopmans	Washington Atlantic	Boise State	83	10
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	British Columbia B	84	10
Summer Solis	JMU B	NCSU B	86	10
Jaden Rupolo	Liberty B	Tusculum A	86	10
Alex Forman	Cornell D	RIT A	86	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	UCF A	87	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCSD A	89	-5
Grace Early	Iowa A	Rose-Hulman A	89	10
Conner Yamnitz	WashU Grizzlers	Purdue B	89	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Boston University B	89	10
Ian Hatcher	Chipola College	Georgia Tech A	89	10
Brendan Bridle	Queen's A	Toronto H	91	10
Snehan Saroch	Louisville A	CWRU A	91	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Louisville D	91	-5
Caleb Hines	Liberty A	JMU A	91	10
Cooper Morris	Columbia B	Rutgers C	91	10
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	Purdue C	91	10
Jacky Li	MIT B	Harvard	91	10
William Edwards	Tennessee A	Alabama A	91	10
Jerry Lin	Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	91	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech B	91	10
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	Rutgers B	92	10
Sam Millenbach	Rowan	NYU C	100	10
Nicolaus Derikx	Carleton A	Ottawa C	101	10
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Washington Chinook	101	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Sewanne	101	10
Adrian Li	Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	102	10
Taman Truong	USC B	UC Irvine	102	10
March Delfin	UCSD A	UCLA D	102	10
Lee Huynh	Guelph A	Waterloo C	102	10
Sam Zavadil	Michigan State D	Michigan State C	102	10
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Georgia Tech D	102	10
Anna Inman	ESF	Binghamton B	102	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Cornell B	105	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Pittsburgh	113	10
Eugene Kim	Purdue D	Indiana B	113	0
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Illinois Urbana	120	10
Noah Scattergood	Brock A	McMaster C	121	10
Henry Nonnemaker	CWRU C	Kentucky	121	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Vassar A	121	10
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	Purdue A	121	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	Alberta A	121	10
Andy Truette	Clemson C	Tennessee B	121	0
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Clemson A	121	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
Northern California	US	1	100%	0%	102.00
Southern California	US	7	100%	29%	83.43
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	82.40
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	11%	85.33
Florida	US	1	100%	0%	87.00
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	25%	81.50
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	76.22
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	8%	82.33
Midwest	US	9	89%	33%	86.75
North	US	1	100%	0%	70.00
Northeast	US	12	92%	8%	72.18
Pacific	US	9	100%	11%	85.56
Southeast	US	13	92%	15%	88.75
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	20%	90.40