A 2022 Consumer Reports investigation found high levels of heavy metals like cadmium and lead in this product. The voluntary Harkin–Engel protocol has been ineffective in eliminating forced labor in this product. Poor harvests due to extreme weather and blights like black pod disease caused prices for this product to reach record highs in 2024. A 2021 Supreme Court case dismissed a child labor lawsuit filed by kidnapped workers producing this product in Côte d’Ivoire, citing lack of standing to sue multinational companies producing this food like Ferrero. A type of this food with a filling of knafeh (“k’NAH-feh”) and pistachio went viral on TikTok in 2024 and is named for Dubai. For 10 points, name this food made from fermented cocoa beans that comes in milk and dark variants. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 32.75 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 68.07 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 46% | 78.54 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 74.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 43% | 77.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 83.70 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 86.40 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 89.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 68.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 87.08 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 53.20 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 80.50 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 71.25 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 57.63 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 60.25 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 104.75 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 17.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | Alberta | 2 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley A | 14 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 14 | -5 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 14 | 10 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley E | Stanford B | 17 | -5 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCLA D | 17 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Queen's B | 17 | -5 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Toronto E | 17 | -5 |
| June Miller | UF B | FSU | 17 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | OSU D | 17 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | Kenyon B | 17 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | VCU A | 17 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | George Washington A | 17 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Penn A | 17 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rowan A | 17 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Missouri A | 17 | -5 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | WashU A | 17 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Chicago D | 17 | -5 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Louisville B | 17 | -5 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Michigan C | 17 | -5 |
| Ai Xing | Minnesota B | Macalester B | 17 | -5 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 17 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 17 | -5 |
| William Arnesen | Harvard | Tufts B | 17 | -5 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 17 | -5 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 17 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Imperial B | 17 | -5 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 17 | -5 |
| David Worley | LSE A | Imperial A | 17 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge D | Manchester B | 17 | 10 |
| James Morgan | Oxford A | Bristol A | 17 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 19 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina B | Clemson A | 19 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina A | 19 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 19 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | Pitt B | 20 | -5 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | Truman State | 20 | -5 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge B | 20 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto D | 21 | 10 |
| Zaynab Guezzar | USF | ERAU A | 21 | -5 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | Virginia Tech A | 21 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 24 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 24 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Kentucky | 24 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia A | 24 | 10 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | Brandeis Orlando | 26 | -5 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Nebraska | 30 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | UCSC | 31 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill A | Toronto C | 31 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto B | 31 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | CWRU B | 31 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | UIC | 31 | -5 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT A | 31 | 10 |
| Jason Hatfield | Huntsville B | Alabama A | 31 | 10 |
| Jack Didsbury | Durham B | Sheffield C | 32 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern B | 33 | 10 |
| Yarden Wallace | Syracuse | Cornell-DII | 33 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Yale B | 34 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | CWRU A | 35 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Minnesota C | 36 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Huntsville A | 37 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Rochester | 37 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McMaster C | 39 | -5 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | George Mason C | 43 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 43 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Northwestern A | 43 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Warwick B | 43 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 44 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 45 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | Tennessee A | 45 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee A | 45 | 10 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington B | 46 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT A | ESF | 47 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 48 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Williams | 48 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Rose State | 48 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Cambridge A | 48 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | Maryland C | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 50 | -5 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia Tech D | 50 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto I | 52 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Warwick A | 52 | -5 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McGill C | 54 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | FIU | 54 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Clemson B | 54 | -5 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Catholic University | 54 | -5 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | UMBC A | 54 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | SIUE | 54 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue B | 54 | -5 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton | 54 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Sheffield B | 54 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Arizona State A | 56 | -5 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 57 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | Tusculum | 61 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Columbia B | 63 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 64 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Michigan B | 64 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Pitt C | 65 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Texas B | 68 | 10 |
| Thomas Catuosco | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 73 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 74 | -5 |
| Hassan Elshayeb | Waterloo | Western Ontario | 74 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 74 | -5 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 74 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Michigan A | 74 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 74 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol A | Oxford A | 74 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 75 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | James Madison | 75 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt A | 75 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McMaster A | 76 | -5 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Guelph A | 76 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | NC State | 77 | 10 |
| Yanis Vencatachellum | ERAU B | Melbourne B | 78 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Virginia B | 78 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Louisville A | 78 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Yale A | 78 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | UTD A | 78 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | Chicago C | 83 | 10 |
| Daniel Pace-Farr | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 85 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Manchester A | 85 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 86 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | Melbourne A | 87 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | UCF A | 87 | 10 |
| Jai Spicer | Roanoke | Liberty C | 87 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 87 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | George Mason B | 87 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Purdue C | 87 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Brown C | 87 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Amherst B | 87 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Simon Fraser | 87 | 10 |
| Owen Feng | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 87 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | City St George's A | 87 | 10 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Southampton B | 87 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | UTD B | 89 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Imperial C | 89 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar A | Lehigh B | 90 | 10 |
| Nishad Joshi | Kentucky | Illinois C | 95 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 96 | 10 |
| Yishak Kelkay | ERAU A | USF | 97 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 101 | 10 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | North Carolina B | 102 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Indiana B | 105 | 10 |
| Ella Tang | McGill C | McGill B | 108 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 109 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | OSU C | 110 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 113 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Michigan D | 113 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | William Woods | 115 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto F | 116 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 116 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 118 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Illinois B | 119 | 10 |
| Brody Davidow | George Washington A | Georgetown A | 121 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 121 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley E | 125 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Amherst A | 127 | 10 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | OSU B | 128 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia C | 128 | 10 |
| Simon Choist | Queen's B | Guelph B | 129 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto H | 129 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | McMaster B | 129 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Virginia A | 129 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | NYU A | 129 | 10 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Johns Hopkins A | 129 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU B | 129 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Princeton A | 129 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU D | 129 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Illinois A | 129 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 129 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Harvard | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | Bowdoin B | 129 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 129 | 10 |