Question

A study of these people uses John Dewey’s idea of active aesthetic experience to analyze a Chinese woman’s fascination with shapeshifting. That “anthropological account” of these people is by Bonnie Nardi. These people inspired Yasmin Kafai’s SPIKEY-20 model based on a disease whose basic reproduction number was over 1 and which spread in their auction houses. Gibbs et al. examined “boundary work” relative to a group of these people called Serenity Now who crashed a stroke victim’s funeral. (-5[1])Ran Balicer compared the transmission of avian flu through air travel to these people setting up quarantines to deal with a CDC-studied pandemic called Corrupted Blood. The most likely of these people to develop gaming disorder are those who chose Draenai, a race introduced during the Burning Crusade. For 10 points, name these people who roleplay in guilds of the Horde and Alliance in a Blizzard MMO. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: players of World of Warcraft [or descriptions of people who play World of Warcraft; accept WoW in place of “World of Warcraft” accept characters or avatars or guilds in place of “players”; prompt on gamers or players of MMORPGs by asking “of what game?”; prompt on Horde or Alliance until each is read; prompt on humans, dwarves, gnomes, night elves, orcs, trolls, undead, tauren, warriors, hunters, priests, paladins, shamans, warlocks, mages, rogues, or druids] (Bonnie Nardi wrote My Life as a Night Elf Priest.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matt JacksonChicago AGeorgia Tech A77-5
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AChicago A14510

Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y1100%0%100%145.00