alliances - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Beatrice de Graaf argued that the “machine” run by one of these things fostered “security culture” after it superseded one dismissed as a “loud-sounding nothing.” Henry Kissinger’s thesis, A World Restored, claims that restraining these things maximized the “freedom of action” sought by Count Stadion’s successor. During the Vormärz (“FOR-mairts”) period, one of these things could forcibly return revolutionary members to its “bosom” under a “preliminary protocol” drafted by Ioannis Kapodistrias (“cap-oh-DISS-tree-uss”) at Troppau. A “secret protocol” let one of these things militarize the Wellington Barrier after its (-5[1])renewal at Aix-La-Chapelle (“ECKS la shah-PELL”) in (-5[1])1818. The 18th-century instability (10[1])of these things (-5[1])was dubbed the “stately (10[1])quadrille (10[4])(“kwah-DRILL”).” The “concert (10[2])system” (10[3])managed (10[2])“Holy” and “Quadruple” (10[2])ones (10[2])comprising (10[3])the great (10[1])powers. (10[1])For 10 points, England reversed what type of relations in the Diplomatic Revolution? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: alliances [or ally, allies, allied powers, or “Allied Machine”; accept coalitions or leagues or ententes; accept Holy Alliance or Triple Alliance; prompt on Congress of Vienna, Wiener Kongress, Concert of Europe, or conventions by asking “what sort of group did it establish?”; prompt on great powers or states or similar by asking “organized into what sort of group?”; prompt on international relations or diplomatic contingents until each is read]

= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Stanford	85	-5
Ben Sterling	Yale B	Duke	89	-5
Jacky Xu	Cornell A	Minnesota A	93	10
Justin Wytmar	Illinois	Johns Hopkins	96	-5
Dean Ah Now	Claremont Colleges	Rutgers	100	10
Matt Jackson	Chicago A	North Carolina A	101	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Columbia A	101	10
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	Columbia B	101	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	Texas	101	10
Jason Hong	Brown	Berkeley A	103	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Toronto A	103	10
Tegan Kapadia	Georgia Tech	Michigan	104	10
Andrew Kelley	Kentucky	Cornell B	104	10
Shiv Seshan	Chicago D	South Carolina	104	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU	Maryland	105	10
Henry Cafaro	Chicago B	Purdue	105	10
Jaik Havlick	Arizona State	Toronto B	108	10
Andrew Minagar	Yale A	Iowa State	108	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina B	Chicago C	109	10
Sam Baker	McGill	Harvard	109	10
Ryan Sun	Berkeley B	Vanderbilt	110	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Penn	110	10
Graham Cope	Florida	WUSTL B	110	10
Andrew Zeng	Stanford	Indiana	112	10
Donal Ryan	Truman State	Minnesota B	113	10
Jonathan Lau	Johns Hopkins	Illinois	127	10
Aditya Sharma	Duke	Yale B	127	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	100%	0%	13%	107.00