Pacific - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Specific word required. A commission named for this word organized a 1972 “Festival of Arts” and a transnational university that employed Ron Crocombe (“KRO-cum”), who formulated its namesake postcolonial “way.” This word names “British Western” territories that included a tripartite mandate mined by Albert Ellis’s BPC and an Anglo-French condominium. This word names a 1901 “Labourers Act” that deported kidnapped cane workers called “Kanakas,” and a multinational diaspora whose visa overstayers were targeted by Robert Muldoon’s (-5[1])dawn raids. (10[1]-5[1])This word names a “solution” that detained asylum seekers (-5[1])at facilities like (-5[1])Manus (-5[1])(“MAN-us”) under John Howard. The 1986 Treaty of Rarotonga (10[1]-5[1])created this region’s namesake nuclear-free (10[1])zone. (-5[1])In 2006, Frank Bainimarama’s second coup led this region’s namesake forum (-5[1])to suspend Fiji. (-5[2])For 10 points, the Polynesian Panthers organized what region’s “Islanders”? (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[13]0[2])

ANSWER: Pacific [or Pasifika; accept Pacific Ocean, South Pacific, Pacific Islanders, Pacific Islands Forum, South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone, Pacific solution, Pacific Labourers Act, Pacific Community, British Western Pacific Territories, University of the South Pacific, or Festival of Pacific Arts; prompt on south by asking “followed by what word?”; prompt on islands or islanders by asking “preceded by what word?”] (The BPC was the British Phosphate Commission.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Danila Kabotyanski	Indiana	Florida	74	-5
Allan Lee	Stanford	Northwestern	76	-5
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Virginia	76	10
Cooper Roh	Columbia A	Claremont Colleges	85	-5
Chinmay Murthy	Texas	Cornell B	88	-5
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU	Johns Hopkins	89	-5
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley A	North Carolina B	97	10
Anirudh Bharadwaj	Penn	Maryland	97	-5
Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury	Michigan	Columbia B	102	10
Liam Starnes	Chicago C	Minnesota A	103	-5
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	Illinois	114	-5
Lexi Terman	Rutgers	Harvard	117	-5
Ben Sterling	Yale B	Vanderbilt	117	-5
Nicolas Edwards	McGill	Brown	127	10
Justin Wytmar	Illinois	Ottawa	127	0
Shardul Rao	Minnesota A	Chicago C	128	10
Akshay Seetharam	Claremont Colleges	Columbia A	128	10
Nathan Zhang	Cornell A	Toronto B	128	10
Jake Greer	Harvard	Rutgers	128	10
Graham Cope	Florida	Indiana	128	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Kentucky	128	10
Ashish Subramanian	Duke	Minnesota B	128	10
Jonathan Lau	Johns Hopkins	NYU	128	0
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Stanford	128	10
Isaac Mammel	Maryland	Penn	128	10
Fred Garvey	Truman State	Purdue	128	10
Claire Jones	Chicago A	South Carolina	128	10
Yared Tadesse	Cornell B	Texas	128	0
Aidan Fein	Vanderbilt	Yale B	128	10
Arthur Delot-Vilain	Yale A	WUSTL B	128	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	20	85%	0%	50%	121.53