stars - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The archaeologist Linda Schele (“SHEE-lee”) popularized the association of warfare events with a glyph that combines one of these objects with a shell. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these celestial objects whose “wars” name Mayan conflicts. The planet Venus was often referred to as the “morning” or “evening” one of these objects.

ANSWER: stars [or ek’; accept star wars; accept Morning Star or Evening Star]

[10m] This city lost the first recorded “star war” in 562 CE to its main rival, beginning a namesake hiatus. This city later fought a cold war against that rival, Calakmul (“kah-lahk-MOOL”), using vassal cities it controlled in Guatemala’s Petén (“peh-TEN”) basin.

ANSWER: Tikal (“tih-KAHL”) [or Yax Mutal or Yax Mutul or First Mutal]

[10h] Altar 21 in this city, which was initially a vassal of Tikal before changing sides, records the 562 defeat of Tikal by Calakmul. The Hieroglyphic Stairway at Naranjo (“na-RAHN-ho”) records the reign of this city’s ruler K’an II.

ANSWER: Caracol

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Carleton	10	10	20
Winona State	Wisconsin B	10	0	10
Bristol	Warwick B	10	10	20
Warwick A	Cambridge A	10	10	20
Cambridge B	LSE	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Sheffield	10	0	10
Oxford B	Cambridge E	10	0	10
Southampton B	Durham	10	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge C	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell D	10	0	10
RIT B	Cornell C	10	10	20
RIT A	ESF A	10	10	20
UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	10	10	20
Claremont B	UCSD	10	10	20
UCLA	UC Berkeley B	10	10	20
Purdue	Georgetown A	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Georgetown B	10	10	20
Notre Dame C	Iowa	10	0	10
Stanford B	Northwestern A	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Notre Dame B	10	0	10
UW B	Alberta	10	0	10
UBC	UW A	10	10	20
Southampton A	Imperial B	10	0	10
Manchester	NYU C	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Cornell B	10	0	10
Maryland A	NYU A	10	0	10
Columbia C	NYU B	10	0	10
Florida B	Florida A	10	10	20
UCF C	Florida State A	10	0	10
Valencia A	UCF B	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	0	10
Kenyon	Michigan C	10	0	10
Michigan D	Case Western A	10	0	10
Michigan State	Case Western B	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Carnegie Mellon B	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Ohio State B	10	10	20
Texas A	TAMU	10	0	10
ASU	Texas B	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Louisville A	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Bruin A	10	10	20
Oxford A	Oxford C	10	0	10
George Washington A	Haverford A	10	0	10
John Jay College	Penn B	10	10	20
Haverford B	Maryland B	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn A	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Vassar A	10	10	20