shell shock - 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield

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Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. The effects of this condition prompt a man to travel to a non-video game Monkey Island and resume a long-dormant fling with Margaret Allington Grey. The description of this condition in the novels The Romantic and Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair draws on her work with Charles Samuel Myers, the first physician to study it. This condition afflicts Chris Baldry, the title character of the debut novel by Rebecca (*) West. A character suffering this condition is overwhelmed by the ■END■

ANSWER: shell shock [or PTSD; or post-traumatic stress disorder; accept deferred traumatic stress or combat fatigue or combat neurosis or combat stress reaction; prompt on (mental) trauma or stress or neurasthenia; prompt on amnesia or nervous breakdown by asking "what is causing [the relevant thing]?"] (The Rebecca West book is The Return of the Soldier.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Mark	Broken Imperial Nomads	Buzzers Karamazov	96	10
Krol	Magisters Ludi	Oxford Hornets	109	10

Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	100%	0%	0%	90.00
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	100%	0%	0%	92.67
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	100%	0%	0%	102.50
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	100%	0%	67%	122.67