A traditional song from this country compares a ruler’s concubines with flowers, and was recorded by Robert E. Brown for the Voyager Golden Record. Colin McPhee studied the music of a region in this country whose styles include kebyar and uses nested rhythmic structures called colotomy. Performers in one of this country’s art forms sit behind a stage made of banana trunks and can instruct musicians by striking a box with a cempala (“chem-PAH-la”). Tuning systems from this country include the pentatonic slendro and the heptatonic pélog. This country is the home of wayang puppetry, which is accompanied by an ensemble which primarily consists of metallic percussion such as the gong ageng. For 10 points, name this country, the origin of gamelan. ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 85.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 97.60 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 91.73 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.33 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 92.75 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 89.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 63% | 104.25 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 13% | 100.33 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 0% | 82.22 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 33 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 45 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 59 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Southampton A | 60 | 10 |
| Larry Sun | McGill C | Toronto A | 61 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia D | 61 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley E | 62 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Alberta B | 64 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 64 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 65 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 67 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 67 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto C | 70 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Cambridge B | 71 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto I | 72 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 72 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 72 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 74 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 77 | -5 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Carleton | 78 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA A | 80 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Chicago C | 80 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | USC | 81 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill A | 81 | -5 |
| Christopher Jenkins | UCF B | UCF A | 81 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Chicago D | 81 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue C | 81 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 83 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 84 | 10 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | Toronto J | 85 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 85 | -5 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Texas A | 85 | -5 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Durham A | 85 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Durham B | 85 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | UTD B | 86 | -5 |
| Pace Roedl | Iowa State | Wisconsin | 90 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Arizona State A | 90 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Auburn A | 90 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Berkeley D | 92 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 93 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | FIU | 93 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | 93 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 93 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Bruin A | 93 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 93 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa | Toronto K | 95 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McMaster B | 96 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | Tulsa | 99 | -5 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford B | Southampton B | 99 | -5 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 100 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt B | 100 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCLA C | 101 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 101 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA D | 102 | -5 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Kentucky | 102 | 10 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | Claremont Pitzer | 105 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Toronto E | Queen's B | 105 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | McGill B | 105 | 10 |
| Dominik Polley | Carleton | Macalester B | 105 | 10 |
| Swapneel Mandal | UAB A | Alabama B | 105 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois B | Notre Dame D | 110 | 10 |
| Jason Hatfield | Huntsville B | Huntsville A | 110 | -5 |
| Scott Sibley | UCI | Claremont Scripps | 121 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 121 | 0 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph B | 121 | 0 |
| Lee Huynh | Guelph B | Toronto F | 121 | 0 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Toronto H | 121 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 121 | 10 |
| Ethan Perrault | UF E | UF A | 121 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Michigan C | 121 | 0 |
| William Henley | Illinois C | Purdue B | 121 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | UIC | 121 | 0 |
| Robert Szot | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 121 | 0 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Nebraska | 121 | 0 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 121 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UCO | 121 | 10 |
| Jarrod Curl | Tulsa | Iowa | 121 | 10 |
| Randy Guo | Texas A | Texas B | 121 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 121 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 121 | 10 |
| Ben Tibbles | Sewanee A | Auburn B | 121 | 0 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Huntsville B | 121 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 121 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 121 | 0 |
| David Latimer | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 121 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Oxford B | 121 | 0 |