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Round 8: Tossup 17

In this text, a wise man invents a new form of verse after watching two birds being shot while mating, which he teaches to the protagonist’s two sons. A character in this text who is cursed to sleep for six months at a time is woken up when a thousand elephants walk over him. In this text, a demon disguised as a golden deer is used to distract a princess of Ayodhya (10[1])(“eye-OHD-yuh”). This text’s antagonist orders Hanuman’s tail (10[1])to be lit on fire, which he uses to burn down his citadel in Lanka. For 10 points, Sita is kidnapped by the rakshasa (“RAHK-shuh-suh”) Ravana (“RAH-vuh-nuh”) in what Sanskrit epic (-5[1])by (-5[1])Valmiki, (-5[1])written before the Mahabharata? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Ramayana [or Rāmāyana; or Ramayanam] (The first line is about Valmiki teaching Lava and Kusha. The character in the second line is Kumbhakarna, a brother of Ravana.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentPositionValue
Sage SnowCentral Oklahoma AOklahoma7110
Rae PrinceMurray State College ANebraska B7710
CJ SershonCentral Oklahoma BRose State106-5
Anthony Cruz MartinezNebraska CTulsa A107-5
Jackson HatcherNebraska AMurray State College B108-5
William WaltersMurray State College BNebraska A11210
Cassidy McIntyreRose StateCentral Oklahoma B11310
Graham DirksKansas State AHarding1130
Anna PearsonTulsa BKansas State B1130

Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
UK (North)UK5100%20%91.20
UK (South)UK863%13%73.80
Northern CaliforniaUS4100%0%72.50
Southern CaliforniaUS786%29%77.83
Eastern Canada (1)US560%20%67.67
Eastern Canada (2)US989%33%95.75
FloridaUS450%50%101.50
Great LakesUS11100%9%79.64
Lower Mid-AtlanticUS9100%33%97.11
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS1283%17%82.50
MidwestUS989%0%75.38
NorthUS475%25%91.33
NortheastUS1292%17%89.73
PacificUS863%38%79.00
South CentralUS757%43%93.25
SoutheastUS1377%54%86.80
Upstate NYUS475%25%94.00