adhān - 2025 ACF Nationals

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English or original-language term acceptable. Ibn Sirin created various interpretations of this practice in dreams, such as it being performed by a rhinoceros meaning that the dreamer will become wealthy. Sunnis follow along silently to this practice except at a phrase meaning “hasten to success.” Since 2018, Egypt has enforced a standardized version (10[1])of this practice in Cairo, which is popularly done in maqāms like ḥijāz (-5[1])or bayātī. A popular 1990s recording (10[1])of this practice widely used in television was made by (10[1])Ali Ahmed Mullah (10[1])at the Masjid al-Ḥarām. Two rakat are said between this practice (-5[1])and the largely similar iqāma, (-5[1])which both begin with the takbīr and shahāda. (10[2])This practice was first recited by the freed Abyssinian slave (10[1])Bilāl (10[1])ibn (10[2])Rabāḥ (10[2]-5[1])and is stated five times each day. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, minarets (-5[1])were built (10[1]-5[1])for what recitation (10[1])that summons Muslims to a mosque for ṣalā? ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: adhān [accept call to prayer or reasonable equivalents; accept azān or ezan; accept bāng; prompt on the takbīr or shahāda until read by asking “what larger practice is reciting that phrase a part of?”; prompt on iqāma until read by asking “what other similar phrase also includes this line?”; prompt on allāhu akbar or ashhadu an lā ilāha illa llāh or ashhadu anna muḥammadan rasūlu llāh or ashhadu anna ‘aliyyan waliyyu llāh or ḥayya ‘ala ṣ-ṣalāh or ḥayya ‘ala l-falāḥ or ḥayya ‘alā khayri l-‘amal or aṣ-ṣalātu khayrun mina n-nawm or lā ilāha illā llāh by asking “what larger practice is reciting that phrase a part of?”]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Florida	52	10
Danila Kabotyanski	Indiana	Yale	65	-5
Vikshar Athreya	Rutgers	Toronto C	71	10
John Marvin	Chicago A	Michigan	81	10
Orion Keller	Virginia Tech	UC Berkeley B	84	10
Teigue Kelly	Penn State	Chicago B	95	-5
Maude-Sophie Lockman	Ottawa	North Carolina A	100	-5
Shardul Rao	Minnesota	Columbia A	108	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Johns Hopkins	108	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford	UCF	118	10
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	Waterloo B	119	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	RIT	120	10
Joey Sun	Toronto B	British Columbia	120	10
Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia State	Ohio State	121	10
Jim Fan	North Carolina A	Ottawa	121	10
Brian Hoff	Cornell B	WUSTL A	121	-5
Alan Wu	Vanderbilt	Maryland	128	10
Soren Heydari	North Carolina B	Georgia Tech	128	-5
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State	Columbia B	132	-5
William Groger	Columbia B	Arizona State	134	10
Collin Nadarajah	WUSTL B	Winona State	134	-5
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Cornell B	137	10
Liam Starnes	Chicago B	Penn State	146	0
Jem Burch	Yale	Indiana	146	0
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech	North Carolina B	146	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	WUSTL B	146	10
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Cornell A	146	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	20	90%	0%	35%	114.44