water - 2025 ACF Nationals

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A 2006 book about Governing this resource features a chapter contrasting the “Invisible Hand” with a “Visible Fist” and is by Ken Conca. The Three Ages of this resource title a 2023 book by Peter Gleick. Christina Cook and Karen Bakker debated the aptness of a “security” paradigm named for this resource. Goal 6 of the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals explicitly mentions this resource, (10[2])which is the subject of the U.S.’s “prior appropriation (10[1])doctrine.” (10[2])In January 2022, Chilean legislators reformed a Pinochet-era code concerning private rights to this resource. (10[5])IR theorist (10[1])John (10[1])Mearsheimer discussed the “stopping power (10[2]-5[1])of” this material, which can be (10[1])governed by riparian rights. (10[4])For (-5[1])10 points, (10[1])a paradox debuted by (10[1])Adam Smith concerns the relative prices of diamonds and (10[1])what (10[1])resource, which is often fought over in arid regions? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: water [accept Governing Water; accept The Three Ages of Water; accept water security; accept water refugees; accept Water Code of 1981; accept “stopping power of water”; accept agua; accept hydropolitics; accept answers indicating fresh or clean water; prompt on rivers or streams or seas or oceans by asking, “Can you be less specific?”]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Jaik Havlick	Arizona State	Ottawa	64	10
Yashwanth Bajji	Michigan	Cornell B	64	10
Benjamin Chapman	Toronto A	Waterloo A	73	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Rutgers	74	10
Orion Keller	Virginia Tech	Toronto B	74	10
John Chen	British Columbia	Georgia State	89	10
Yrwin Batan	MIT	Chicago B	89	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Columbia A	89	10
Parth Jagtap	Toronto C	Texas	89	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU	Waterloo B	89	10
Teigue Kelly	Penn State	Florida	91	10
Adam Fine	Chicago A	WUSTL A	92	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	UC Berkeley A	97	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Illinois B	97	10
Cormac Beirne	LSE	UC Berkeley B	97	-5
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford	North Carolina A	103	10
Ian Lu	Georgia Tech	Cornell A	107	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Iowa State	107	10
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	Vanderbilt	107	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	UCF	107	10
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins	Harvard	108	-5
Olin Bose	Columbia B	RIT	110	10
Jem Burch	Yale	WUSTL B	114	10
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	LSE	123	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina B	Maryland	124	10
Michael Kearney	Harvard	Johns Hopkins	134	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	100%	0%	8%	96.13