Theodore Dreiser - 2025 ACF Regionals

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The protagonist of a series by this author acquires “some landscapes by Hunt, Sully, and Hart” to begin his massive art collection after his marriage to Lillian Semple. A novel by this author ends with a “souvenir” that echoes its opening chapter by following a family of street preachers at dusk on a summer night. (10[1])The railcar tycoon Charles Yerkes (-5[2])was fictionalized (10[1])as Frank Cowperwood (10[3])(“cooper-wood”) in this author’s (10[2])Trilogy (10[1])of (10[1])Desire. (10[4])In (10[1])a novel by this author, (10[1])a hit-and-run by the bellhop Sparser (10[1])forces the protagonist to flee from Kansas (10[1])City (10[1])to Chicago, (10[2])then Lycurgus, (10[1])New York. (10[4]-5[1])The murder (10[1])of Grace Brown inspired (10[1])a novel by this author in which Roberta Alden is hit (10[1])with a (10[1])camera (10[1])and drowns in a lake, (10[1])leading to (10[1])the execution of Clyde Griffiths. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])name this author of An American (-5[1])Tragedy. (10[1])■END■ (10[16]0[9])

ANSWER: Theodore Dreiser [or Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Morgan Bozeman	Minnesota B	Wisconsin A	54	10
Charles Hang	WashU A	Chicago A	59	-5
Jerry Vinokurov	John Jay College	Rutgers A	59	-5
Tiffany Zhou	Florida A	UCF C	61	10
Rohan Navaneetha Raj	Ohio State B	Michigan B	64	10
Michael Kearney	Harvard A	Brown A	64	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	64	10
Chris Yoo	William & Mary	Liberty A	67	10
Richard Niu	Cornell B	Maryland A	67	10
Ryan Sun	UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	68	10
Shardul Parthasarathy	Illinois B	Missouri	69	10
Yashwanth Bajji	Michigan A	Case Western B	70	10
Alvin Guo	Chicago D	Chicago C	70	10
Michael Hunding	Illinois A	Chicago B	70	10
Bryce Cruise	Texas A	Texas B	70	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC D	South Carolina	71	10
Bryan Ugaz	ASU	TAMU	76	10
William Orr	Yale A	NYU A	82	10
Arya Karthik	Oxford A	Imperial B	89	10
Neal Joshi	WashU B	Indiana B	90	10
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	UCSD	92	10
Roxanne Tang	Ohio State A	Kenyon	92	10
Stan Melkumian	Purdue	Stanford B	94	10
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	96	10
Guy Indorante	Iowa State	Wisconsin B	96	10
Stephen Heritage	Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	96	-5
Seraphina Charlotte Foo	Cambridge A	Durham	96	10
Albert Nyang	LSE	Bristol	96	10
William Groger	Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	98	10
Rachel Ezrielev	Georgetown A	Georgetown B	102	10
Arunn Sankar	Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	113	10
Sharath Narayan	Northwestern A	Iowa	115	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU C	Cambridge C	116	10
Yrwin Batan	MIT A	BU	121	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	Carleton	123	10
Clete Reinberger	Valencia A	Florida State A	128	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia A	Liberty B	128	10
Kai Madgwick	Manchester	Cambridge E	128	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT A	Binghamton A	128	10
Chauncey Lo	Columbia C	Maryland B	131	10
Shiv Seshan	Cambridge B	Sheffield	137	-5
Carter Pisocky	Michigan C	Michigan State	138	10
Ivan Karp	UCLA	Claremont B	139	10
Anna Barker	UCF B	Florida B	139	10
Daniel Huang	Michigan D	Carnegie Mellon A	139	10
Sai Subramanian	Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon B	139	10
Catherine Major	Wake Forest	UNC C	139	0
Ned Tagtmeier	Chicago A	WashU A	139	10
Jacob Harl	Missouri S&T	Illinois C	139	0
Sriram Koritala	Illinois C	Missouri S&T	139	10
William Parocai	Dartmouth A	Brandeis B	139	10
Max Neal	Harvard B	Tufts A	139	10
Kayla Drajpuch	Brandeis A	UMass Boston	139	10
Stephen Walsh	Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	139	10
Noah McRedmond	Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	139	0
Patrick Boyle	Notre Dame C	Notre Dame B	139	10
Parker McCoig	Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	139	0
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Tennessee A	139	0
Percy Yuen	Cambridge D	Southampton A	139	10
Elliot Cosnett	Oxford B	Warwick A	139	10
Michael Wu	Southampton B	Imperial A	139	10
Taaj Rai	George Washington B	George Washington A	139	0
Eva Lettiere-Roberts	George Washington A	George Washington B	139	0
Aum Mundhe	Rutgers A	John Jay College	139	10
Ivvone Zhou	Penn A	Vassar A	139	10
Pranaav Senthilkumar	Cornell D	RIT B	139	0
Danny Cutbill	RIT B	Cornell D	139	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
California	2025-02-01	3	100%	0%	99.67
Florida	2025-02-01	3	100%	0%	109.33
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	6	100%	0%	107.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	5	80%	0%	90.50
Midwest	2025-02-01	6	100%	17%	96.17
North	2025-02-01	3	100%	0%	91.00
Northeast	2025-02-01	5	100%	0%	120.40
Overflow	2025-02-01	5	100%	20%	117.80
South Central	2025-02-01	2	100%	0%	73.00
Southeast	2025-02-01	3	67%	0%	88.50
UK	2025-02-01	9	89%	11%	117.75
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	7	86%	14%	109.33
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	2	50%	0%	128.00