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 |
| Tom Haines | Durham A | Edinburgh | 42 | 10 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Team 1 | 42 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | UIUC B | Purdue A | 42 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Oregon State | 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 |
| Benny Feldman | UChicago C | WashU B | 44 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | LSE 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 |
| Michael Hunding | UIUC A | Indiana A | 51 | 10 |
| Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick A | Bristol A | 51 | 10 |
| Rohan Shelke | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 51 | -5 |
| Turjya | Georgia A | Emory B | 51 | -5 |
| Hrishit | NYU B | Texas A | 51 | -5 |
| Anila Moparthy | UIUC D | UChicago D | 53 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF C | 53 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE A | Southampton A | 53 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC B | 55 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Warwick B | 56 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Boston University A | 56 | -5 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UChicago B | 56 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Vassar B | 56 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Rutgers C | 82 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill E | Arkansas | 82 | -5 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU A | Michigan State C | 82 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | A Brandeis Supreme | Boston University B | 84 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Penn State B | 85 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | LSE A | 85 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Pitt B | 85 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech A | UF E | 88 | 10 |
| Ethan | Williams A | Amherst A | 88 | 10 |
| Parker Knudson | Texas C | Texas D | 88 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech E | 103 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Cambridge B | 103 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale B | Bowdoin A | 103 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | Carabrandeis | 103 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn C | Auburn B | 103 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF B | Florida State University A | 103 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU B | CWRU D | 103 | -5 |
| Adam Monusko | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 103 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |