Question
This author wrote about giving food to a “child crying in the autumn wind” who had been abandoned by his parents while walking along a riverside with his servant Chiri. This author notes that a creature “gives us no sign / That presently it will die” in a poem about “the cry of the cicada.” A series of travel essays by this author blends prose with poetry and includes Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton as well as a work that opens “Days and months are the travellers of eternity.” This poet collected and commented on a series of poems that contain “cutting words” as part of an anthology named for a children’s game in which the title objects are compared, The Seashell Game. For 10 points, the haibun travelogue The Narrow Road to the Deep North is by what Japanese master of haiku? ■END■
Summary
2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.33 |
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 92.20 |
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.44 |
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.29 |
2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 103.88 |
2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.33 |
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 108.18 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ethan Bingemann | Rutgers C | Lehigh A | 54 | -5 |
Hrishit | NYU B | Texas A | 57 | 10 |
Tai Belke (DII) | UBC B | Alberta | 58 | 10 |
Yash Mandavia | UIUC B | Purdue A | 62 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 66 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State A | Penn A | 66 | 10 |
Ariel | Pitt A | Michigan D | 66 | 10 |
Jack Rado | Columbia A | Johns Hopkins A | 67 | 10 |
James Carrigy | Edinburgh | Durham A | 67 | 10 |
Ryan Fang | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 68 | 10 |
Alvin Guo | UChicago C | WashU B | 68 | 10 |
Braden Booth (D2) | Missouri | Texas B | 68 | 10 |
Collin Leck (D2) | Central Oklahoma | NYU A | 68 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Southampton A | 69 | 10 |
Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Southampton B | 72 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Team 1 | 72 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UChicago B | 73 | 10 |
Matthew Wang (UG) | UBC A | UW B | 75 | 10 |
Samuel Stella | Florida State University A | UCF B | 82 | 10 |
Katherine Lei | Stanford L | Stanford M | 86 | 10 |
Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | Bard A | Columbia B | 88 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | WashU C | 88 | 10 |
David Zhang | UIUC D | UChicago D | 88 | 10 |
Biyang Zhang (UG) | Michigan B | Ohio State C (DII) | 88 | 10 |
Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Imperial B | 88 | -5 |
Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Rowan A | 102 | 10 |
Sam Wang (UG) | Pitt B (UG) | Ohio State B (DII) | 102 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | UIUC A | Indiana A | 103 | 10 |
Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Bristol A | 104 | 10 |
Towery McNeil (D2) | Mississippi State | Vassar B | 107 | 10 |
Cyrus Zhou | WUSTL A | Ole Miss | 107 | 10 |
Kyan van Beek | UF E | Florida Tech A | 107 | 10 |
Brynn Jones | Oregon State | Vassar A | 108 | -5 |
Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Bristol B | 112 | 10 |
Arthur Gayden | UChicago A | UIUC C | 114 | 10 |
Graham Cope | UF B | UF A | 119 | 10 |
Sarah Dong (DII) | Michigan C (UG) | Kenyon B (DII) | 122 | 10 |
Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Durham B | 127 | -5 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue D | 128 | 10 |
Michael Wu | Southampton B | Southampton A | 128 | 10 |
Roy Yang | WashU D | Notre Dame | 135 | 10 |
Jeevan Iyadurai | UF C | UCF A | 136 | 10 |
Thomas Flexer | Penn State B | Penn B | 138 | 10 |
Truman Fillbrandt (UG) | UW A | SFU | 138 | 10 |
Edward Fogel | Birmingham | Oxford B | 138 | 10 |
Alexander Tenace (D2) | Arkansas | McGill E | 139 | 10 |
Keerthana Krishnan (D2) | Texas C | Texas D | 142 | 10 |
Sarah Henderson | Cambridge C | LSE B | 142 | 10 |
Elie Aoun (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | Michigan State C (UG) | 143 | 10 |
Bee Sackett (DII) | Kenyon A (UG) | Michigan State B (UG) | 143 | 10 |
Alan Lee (UG) | CWRU B (UG) | CWRU D (DII) | 143 | 10 |
Sam Macchi (D2) | Vassar A | Oregon State | 143 | 10 |
Niru Shakya | Florida Tech B | UF D | 143 | 0 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF D | Florida Tech B | 143 | 0 |
Matteo Fronduti | Durham B | Cambridge D | 143 | 10 |
Gus Redding | Imperial B | Warwick B | 143 | 10 |