A thinker from this country complained about the lack of historical study in the essay “Why Is There No International Theory?” yet his lengthy survey on power politics was only published by two students after his death. After becoming a citizen of this country, one of those two students grounded the international order in a “society of states”; that concept and his book The Anarchical Society influenced this country’s namesake school of (*) international relations. Thomas Schelling’s namesake “dilemma” about preemptive strikes is a “trap” named for a thinker from this country who championed a commonwealth to overcome the “Kingdom of Darkness.” That thinker from this country influenced realism with his chaotic characterization of the state of nature. For 10 points, name this country home to Thomas Hobbes. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 127.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 122.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 114.67 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 127.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 125.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 122.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 121.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 124.75 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 125.40 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 118.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 111.67 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 92.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collin Leck | The cult of SGA | In the Mood for Buzz | 36 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | Social credit go vroom | 73 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont | Anderson et al. | 83 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois Orange | Chicago A | 83 | -5 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 85 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt | RIT | 87 | -5 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech A | Innovation Academy B | 87 | -5 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE B | Imperial B | 88 | -5 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman | WashU | 89 | -5 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto A | Waterloo Cloze | 89 | -5 |
| Peter Scully | Tufts B | Amherst | 90 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech C | 90 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | In the Mood for Buzz | The cult of SGA | 90 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | UF B | USF | 90 | -5 |
| Will Alston | SGV Ventures | U[C]SD | 90 | -5 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | MIT | 90 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Chicago B | 90 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Southampton | 90 | -5 |
| Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Georgia Tech C | 91 | -5 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo Aspidistra | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 91 | -5 |
| Jason Cheng | Jason et al. | ALCU | 92 | -5 |
| Tegan Kapadia | bingy academy | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 92 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman | Missouri | 93 | 10 |
| James Mangraviti | Boston College B | Bowdoin A | 94 | -5 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 94 | -5 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 96 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina B | 100 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | UF A | UCF B | 100 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 101 | 10 |
| Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | Paddington in Peru | 105 | 10 |
| Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 105 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto Metropolitan A | 107 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis B | Bowdoin B | 116 | 10 |
| Nova Sink | Virginia Tech C | Virginia Tech A | 116 | 10 |
| Aalok Bhattacharya | Boston College A | Clark House | 116 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Purdue B | 116 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Stanford | 116 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale | BU | 117 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina | North Carolina A | 119 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Bowdoin C | 119 | 10 |
| Quentin Mot | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 119 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shotriya | Purdue A | Notre Dame | 119 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick A | 119 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland | Penn State | 123 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UF C | 125 | -5 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech C | Johns Creek | 126 | 10 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago B | Illinois Blue | 126 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 126 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Waterloo Aspidistra | 126 | 10 |
| Evan Lucca | Bowdoin A | Boston College B | 127 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst | Tufts B | 127 | 10 |
| Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | Missouri | 127 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU | Truman | 127 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | Florida Tech | 127 | 10 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF B | 127 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | Valencia | 127 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | ALCU | Jason et al. | 127 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | Claremont | 127 | 10 |
| Justine French | U[C]SD | SGV Ventures | 127 | 10 |
| Cecile Thomas | Tufts A | Clark Wilson | 127 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Harvard | 127 | 10 |
| Chris Scheri | RIT | Pitt | 127 | 10 |
| Ian Droessler Wilson | Innovation Academy B | Georgia Tech A | 127 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Lambert | 127 | 0 |
| Adhrit Yadav | Lambert | Mississippi State | 127 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois Orange | 127 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | LSE B | 127 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton | LSE A | 127 | 10 |
| Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick B | Cambridge A | 127 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick C | Bristol | 127 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton A | Toronto B | 127 | 10 |
| James Tang | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto A | 127 | 10 |