Vienna - 2025 ACF Nationals

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A writer in this city used the name Loris for a lyrical prologue to a set of seven one-act plays about an elegant philanderer. Two shop assistants “go on a spree” in this city in a “farce with song” that was adapted into Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle and Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker. The essay “Demolished Literature” satirized a circle of “Young” writers from this city, (-5[1])where a leading playwright wrote an 1818 “fate-tragedy” about Sappho. (10[1])A pretentious actor arrives late to an “artistic dinner” in this city (10[1])from a production of Ibsen’s (10[1])The Wild Duck in a novel by one of its native sons titled Woodcutters. Everyman (10[1])was (10[1])adapted (10[1])as (10[1])Jedermann (“YAY-der-mahn”) by a librettist (-5[1])from this modern-day capital, whose Heldenplatz (10[1])titles a play (-5[1])by (-5[1])Thomas Bernhard. For 10 points, (10[2])what (10[1])city’s (10[1])Burgtheater (10[1])debuted plays by Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo (10[2])von Hofmannsthal (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Vienna [or Wien; accept Young Vienna or Jung-Wien] (Clues include Arthur Schnitzler’s Anatol, Johann Nestroy’s He Will Go on a Spree, Karl Kraus, and Franz Grillparzer.)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Thomas Tibbetts	UCF	Ohio State	65	-5
Mitch McCullar	Penn State	NYU	75	10
Tim Morrison	Stanford	Northwestern	87	10
Guy Indorante	Iowa State	Indiana	92	10
Tony Chen	Toronto A	Georgia Tech	107	10
Richard Niu	Cornell A	Ottawa	108	10
Michael Hunding	Illinois A	Virginia	109	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Michigan	110	10
Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia State	Johns Hopkins	114	-5
Mattias Ehatamm	Waterloo A	North Carolina A	120	10
Moses Kitakule	Columbia A	WUSTL B	123	-5
Albert Yingzhi Nyang	LSE	Vanderbilt	124	-5
Michael Kearney	Harvard	Maryland	129	10
Parth Jagtap	Toronto C	RIT	129	10
Arjun Kala	Illinois B	Florida	130	10
Caleb Ott	Waterloo B	Arizona State	131	10
Karan Gurazada	Texas	North Carolina B	132	10
Neal Joshi	WUSTL A	MIT	139	10
William Orr	Yale	Cornell B	139	10
Shourjo Ganguli	Ohio State	UCF	141	10
David Bass	Johns Hopkins	Georgia State	142	10
Alan Wu	Vanderbilt	LSE	142	10
Wenying Wu	Toronto B	Winona State	142	10
John John Groger	WUSTL B	Columbia A	142	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	20	100%	0%	20%	122.30