FCC - 2025 ACF Nationals

Tossup

The first female member of this organization, Ukrainian-born Frieda Hennock, sought to use its powers to help educators. A 1978 Supreme Court decision that ruled in favor of this organization set forth the “pervasiveness doctrine.” An essay that decried “you weary giants of flesh and steel” (-5[1])was written in response to a 1996 act that gave this organization “unbundling obligations” with respect to “incumbent local (-5[1])exchange carriers.” In 1952, this organization’s Sixth Report and Order ended a five-year “Freeze” that severely weakened a company named for Allen B. DuMont. A 1961 speech by this organization’s leader Newton Minow (10[3])decried (10[1])a “vast wasteland.” (10[2])In (10[1])2017, (10[3])it made a 3-to-2 decision backed by its then-chair (10[1])Ajit (-5[1])Pai (10[3])to (10[1])weaken (10[2]-5[1])net (10[1])neutrality (10[1])protections. For 10 points, what agency regulates (10[1])obscene material on radio and broadcast TV? ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: FCC [or Federal Communications Commission; reject near-soundalikes such as “SEC,” “FTC,” or “FEC”; ask players to spell their answer if needed] (The essay clued is John Perry Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.” FCC v. Pacifica Foundation concerned George Carlin’s comedy routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” The “Freeze” paused issuing of new licenses for television stations.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Jakob Myers	Indiana	North Carolina A	45	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	North Carolina B	64	-5
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	British Columbia	97	10
Nitin Rao	Harvard	MIT	97	10
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	WUSTL A	97	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Virginia Tech	98	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU	UC Berkeley B	101	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	Maryland	101	10
Liam Starnes	Chicago B	Georgia Tech	102	10
John John Groger	WUSTL B	Georgia State	103	10
Geoffrey Wu	Columbia A	Waterloo A	103	10
Rayton Lin	Waterloo B	Yale	103	10
Gareth Thorlakson	Toronto A	Rutgers	112	10
Ned Tagtmeier	Chicago A	Northwestern	113	-5
Yared Tadesse	Cornell B	Columbia B	114	10
David Bass	Johns Hopkins	Toronto C	114	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	UCF	114	10
Gavin Markoff	Vanderbilt	Illinois B	115	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State	Penn State	116	10
Qingyu Zhang	Florida	LSE	116	-5
Karan Gurazada	Texas	Iowa State	116	10
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	RIT	117	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Stanford	118	10
Nathan Zhang	Cornell A	Toronto B	125	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Chicago A	133	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Indiana	133	10
Albert Yingzhi Nyang	LSE	Florida	133	10
Soren Heydari	North Carolina B	Virginia	133	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	100%	0%	17%	112.29