maternal mortality - 2025 ACF Nationals

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A 2024 study lead-authored by K.S. Joseph found that overreliance on a specific “checkbox” introduced in 2003 led to massive overestimates of this phenomenon in the U.S. (-5[1])The IMPROVE Initiative within NIH was founded to address this problem. In a 2022 campaign speech, Stacey Abrams said that Georgia having the highest rate of this problem made it (10[2])“the worst state in the country to live.” (-5[1])A Texas (10[1])committee tasked with reviewing (-5[1])this issue declined (10[1])to look at any data from 2022 or 2023. In (-5[1])November 2024, all members of a similar committee in Georgia were dismissed (-5[1])after some spoke to the press (10[1])about (-5[1])Amber Thurman and Candi (10[1])Miller, (10[2]-5[2])who each suffered this issue after a new law made (-5[2])dilation (10[1])and curettage (-5[1])harder to obtain. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])programs that train Black doulas (“DOO-luhz”) aim to reduce racial (10[1])disparities in rates of what tragic medical (-5[1])outcome? (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[7]0[4])

ANSWER: maternal mortality [or maternal morbidity; or obstetrical deaths; accept any answer indicating death during pregnancy or death due to complications from childbirth; or death of a new or expecting mother; or death from an attempted medication abortion; or death from lack of access to abortion care; prompt on death; prompt on women’s health care or reproductive health care; prompt on reproductive rights; prompt on pregnancy or being pregnant; prompt on sepsis; prompt on septic shock; prompt on abortion by asking “what related phenomenon?”] (The “pregnancy checkbox” was added to U.S. death certificates in 2003.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Indiana	26	-5
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU	LSE	56	10
Vinu Harihar	UC Berkeley B	Penn State	56	10
Nikhil Chellam	Northwestern	Toronto A	64	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Ohio State	66	10
Vikshar Athreya	Rutgers	Stanford	70	-5
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Illinois A	73	10
Alan Wu	Vanderbilt	RIT	83	-5
Isaac Mammel	Maryland	Illinois B	95	-5
June Yin	WUSTL B	Waterloo B	101	10
Shardul Rao	Minnesota	Texas	102	-5
Claire Jones	Chicago A	UC Berkeley A	106	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Columbia A	107	10
Bryan Ugaz	Arizona State	Georgia State	107	-5
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech	Georgia Tech	107	-5
Marcus Forbes-Green	Toronto C	Harvard	107	10
Leo Law	Florida	Ottawa	117	-5
Raymond Chen	Toronto B	Iowa State	117	-5
David Bass	Johns Hopkins	Chicago B	118	10
Yared Tadesse	Cornell B	Winona State	120	-5
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Michigan	123	10
John Chen	British Columbia	Yale	126	-5
Thomas Tibbetts	UCF	North Carolina B	135	10
Nathan Zhang	Cornell A	MIT	142	-5
Cade Reinberger	RIT	Vanderbilt	143	0
Karan Gurazada	Texas	Minnesota	143	10
Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia State	Arizona State	144	0
Rohan Dalal	Georgia Tech	Virginia Tech	144	0
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Waterloo A	144	0
Anurag Sodhi	MIT	Cornell A	144	10
Yash Mandavia	Illinois B	Maryland	144	0
Maude-Sophie Lockman	Ottawa	Florida	144	10
Tim Morrison	Stanford	Rutgers	144	10
Benjamin Chapman	Toronto A	Northwestern	144	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Toronto B	144	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	Cornell B	144	10
Jem Burch	Yale	British Columbia	144	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	79%	0%	54%	115.74