An anthropologist applied a field with this prefix to the “self” for a theory of alcoholism as a positive feedback loop. Stafford Beer combined this prefix with “synergy” for a national system of telex machines meant to guide economic planning under Salvador Allende. Hyderabad’s HITEC (“high-tech”) City is often nicknamed with this prefix. Gregory Bateson and Norbert Wiener developed a cross-disciplinary field with this prefix that studies both organic and inorganic control systems. This prefix describes “weapons” such as Stuxnet that can target infrastructure like electrical grids. William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer popularized a sci-fi aesthetic based in hacker culture that appends this prefix to “punk.” For 10 points, what prefix indicates virtual versions of crime, security, and bullying? ■END■
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 101.67 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 87.30 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 86.40 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.20 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50.11 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 77.29 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 90.25 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40.33 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.60 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 61.30 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geoffrey Wu | Columbia A | Johns Hopkins A | 20 | 10 |
| Trenton Burges | Indiana B | Purdue D | 25 | 10 |
| Qingyu Zhang | UF A | UF B | 26 | 10 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | SFU | 27 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford B | Birmingham | 34 | 10 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech F | Georgia Tech C | 37 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UBC A | 39 | 10 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | Texas B | Missouri | 41 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Penn State A | 42 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Oregon State | 42 | 10 |
| Tom Haines | Durham A | Edinburgh | 42 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | UIUC B | Purdue A | 42 | 10 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Team 1 | 42 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF D | Florida Tech B | 43 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame | WashU D | 43 | 10 |
| Daniel Lian | Michigan C | Kenyon B | 43 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | LSE B | 44 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | UChicago C | WashU B | 44 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard A | Brandeises Brew | 48 | 10 |
| Danny | Pitt A | Michigan D | 48 | 10 |
| Rohan Shelke | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 51 | -5 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts B | Yale A | 51 | 10 |
| Turjya | Georgia A | Emory B | 51 | -5 |
| Hrishit | NYU B | Texas A | 51 | -5 |
| Michael Hunding | UIUC A | Indiana A | 51 | 10 |
| Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick A | Bristol A | 51 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF C | 53 | 10 |
| Anila Moparthy | UIUC D | UChicago D | 53 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE A | Southampton A | 53 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC B | 55 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Vassar B | 56 | -5 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Boston University A | 56 | -5 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Warwick B | 56 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UChicago B | 56 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | WashU C | 56 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 58 | -5 |
| Owen Edelson | Kenyon A | Michigan State B | 63 | 10 |
| Benjamin Allen | Central Oklahoma | NYU A | 69 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Bristol B | 78 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Southampton B | 78 | -5 |
| Alessandro d'Attanasio | Cambridge D | Durham B | 78 | 10 |
| Tegan Kapadia | Georgia Tech D | Emory A | 80 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | UIUC C | UChicago A | 81 | 10 |
| Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford M | Stanford L | 82 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU A | Michigan State C | 82 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill E | Arkansas | 82 | -5 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Rutgers C | 82 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | A Brandeis Supreme | Boston University B | 84 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Penn State B | 85 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Pitt B | 85 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | LSE A | 85 | 10 |
| Parker Knudson | Texas C | Texas D | 88 | -5 |
| Ethan | Williams A | Amherst A | 88 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech A | UF E | 88 | 10 |
| Derek Fino | Clark A | Bowdoin B | 89 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia B | Bard A | 92 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Johns Hopkins B | 94 | 10 |
| Peter Scully | Tufts A | Yale C | 97 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn C | Auburn B | 103 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech E | 103 | 10 |
| Adam Monusko | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 103 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale B | Bowdoin A | 103 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | Carabrandeis | 103 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF B | Florida State University A | 103 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Cambridge B | 103 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU B | CWRU D | 103 | -5 |
| Rajat Sethi | Northeastern A | MIT A | 104 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 106 | 10 |
| Cyrus Zhou | WUSTL A | Ole Miss | 106 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | Boston University A | Diamond Brandeis | 106 | 10 |
| Barkot Belay | Emory B | Georgia A | 109 | 10 |
| Hayden Webb | Arkansas | McGill E | 114 | 10 |
| Luca Balescu | Texas D | Texas C | 116 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 117 | 10 |
| Claire Harvey | Vassar B | Mississippi State | 117 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | NYU B | 117 | 10 |
| Mithilesh Gopalakrishman | CWRU D | CWRU B | 117 | 10 |