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Specific term required. In a 2017 article for Glass Bead, Peli Grietzer compared these things to outputs of an auto·encoder neural net, and described this sort of thing as “an abstractum that cannot be separated from its concreta.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these things. Trend forecaster Sean Monahan popularized a term for a change of these things, which he says occurred twice between 2003 and 2020, and once more after that.
ANSWER: vibes [or vibe shifts; accept “A Theory of Vibe”] (Monahan claims he coined the term “vibe shift.”)
[10e] Monahan wrote that the latest vibe shift began as “progressive millennials” won this sort of ultra-costly victory named for an ancient-world general.
ANSWER: Pyrrhic victory [accept any answer indicating victories of, or like those by, Pyrrhus of Epirus]
[10m] In a Guardian piece, this critic traced the modern sense of “vibe” back to a mid-2000s blog by indie rocker Ezra Koenig. This author fictionalized herself as the Turkish-American Harvard student Selin in two novels.
ANSWER: Elif Batuman (The novels are The Idiot and Either-Or.)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaChicago A010010E
Columbia AToronto B010010E
Columbia BNorth Carolina B010010E
Cornell ANorth Carolina A0101020EM
Cornell BIndiana010010E
Georgia TechArizona State0101020EM
HarvardLSE0101020EM
Iowa StateMIT0101020EM
Johns HopkinsUCF0101020EM
MarylandWaterloo A0101020EM
NYUChicago B0101020EM
RITVirginia010010E
RutgersPenn State010010E
TexasUC Berkeley A010010E
Toronto AWaterloo B0101020EM
UC Berkeley BStanford0101020EM
VanderbiltOttawa010010E
Virginia TechNorthwestern010010E
WUSTL BMinnesota010010E
Winona StateMichigan10101030HEM
YaleWUSTL A0101020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2115.71100%52%5%