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 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Oregon State | 42 | 10 |
| Tom Haines | Durham A | Edinburgh | 42 | 10 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Team 1 | 42 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Penn State A | 42 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | UIUC B | Purdue A | 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 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts B | Yale A | 51 | 10 |
| Hrishit | NYU B | Texas A | 51 | -5 |
| Turjya | Georgia A | Emory B | 51 | -5 |
| Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick A | Bristol A | 51 | 10 |
| Rohan Shelke | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 51 | -5 |
| Michael Hunding | UIUC A | Indiana A | 51 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF C | 53 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE A | Southampton A | 53 | -5 |
| Anila Moparthy | UIUC D | UChicago D | 53 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC B | 55 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Boston University A | 56 | -5 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Vassar B | 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 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU A | Michigan State C | 82 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill E | Arkansas | 82 | -5 |
| Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford M | Stanford L | 82 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Rutgers C | 82 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | A Brandeis Supreme | Boston University B | 84 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Pitt B | 85 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | LSE A | 85 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Penn State B | 85 | 10 |
| Ethan | Williams A | Amherst A | 88 | 10 |
| Parker Knudson | Texas C | Texas D | 88 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jem Burch | Yale B | Bowdoin A | 103 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | Carabrandeis | 103 | 10 |
| Adam Monusko | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 103 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn C | Auburn B | 103 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF B | Florida State University A | 103 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Cambridge B | 103 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech E | 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 |
| Eren Michelet | Boston University A | Diamond Brandeis | 106 | 10 |
| Cyrus Zhou | WUSTL A | Ole Miss | 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 |
| Claire Harvey | Vassar B | Mississippi State | 117 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | NYU B | 117 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 117 | 10 |
| Mithilesh Gopalakrishman | CWRU D | CWRU B | 117 | 10 |