virtù AND Fortuna - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet K: Bonus 12

Note to players: Original-language terms required. Niccolò Machiavelli analogizes one of these concepts as a raging river that floods places where wisdom and this other concept are not there to resist it. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these two concepts central to Machiavellian leadership. One is a set of qualities necessary for a ruler to achieve greatness, while the other refers to the unpredictability and chance nature of events.

ANSWER: virtù AND Fortuna

[10e] Virtù (“veer-TOO”) and Fortuna are extensively dealt with in this seminal work of Machiavelli. This treatise infamously states that “It is much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible.”

ANSWER: The Prince [or Il Principe or De Principatibus]

[10m] The second part of this other Machiavelli work, often said to be a more honest reflection of his beliefs, asks whether virtù or Fortuna was more responsible for the rise of Roman power chronicled in Ab urbe condita.

ANSWER: Discourses on Livy [or Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio]

<Notre Dame B, Philosophy> | Packet K - UCF A, Notre Dame B, Durham A, Michigan State A, Swarthmore A, Cambridge B

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
60	17.67	100%	62%	15%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20	EM
Arizona State	UC Irvine	0	10	10	20	EM
Brock	Western C	0	10	0	10	E
Brown	Brandeis B	0	10	10	20	EM
Bruin	Louisville B	0	10	10	20	EM
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20	EM
Cardiff	Oxford C	0	10	0	10	E
Carleton University	Waterloo B	0	10	10	20	EM
Columbia A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20	EM
Columbia C	Columbia B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Dartmouth A	Yale	0	10	10	20	EM
Dartmouth B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10	E
Duke	Liberty B	0	10	10	20	EM
Edinburgh A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20	EM
Georgetown	NYU B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Georgia Tech B	WashU A	0	10	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10	E
Guelph	McGill A	0	10	0	10	E
Harvard A	Brandeis A	0	10	10	20	EM
Harvard B	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	0	10	E
Imperial B	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10	E
John Jay	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20	EM
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20	EM
Kentucky	Mississipi State	0	10	10	20	EM
Liberty A	Wake Forest	0	10	10	20	EM
Louisville A	Sewanee	0	10	0	10	E
MIT	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20	EM
Maryland B	NYU C	0	10	10	20	EM
Maryland C	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20	EM
McGill B	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10	E
McMaster B	Western A	0	10	10	20	EM
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20	HE
Minnesota A	Missouri A	0	10	10	20	EM
Missouri B	Iowa State	10	10	10	30	HEM
Montpellier	Warwick B	0	10	0	10	E
NC State A	James Madison B	0	10	0	10	E
NYU A	Catholic	10	10	10	30	HEM
North Carolina C	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10	E
Ohio State C	CWRU B	0	10	0	10	E
Pittsburgh	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20	EM
Queen's	Ottawa	10	10	10	30	HEM
South Carolina A	James Madison A	0	10	0	10	E
Southampton A	Birmingham	0	10	10	20	EM
Southampton B	Manchester	0	10	0	10	E
Tennessee B	Alabama B	0	10	0	10	E
Toronto C	Toronto G	0	10	0	10	E
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto F	0	10	10	20	EM
UBC A	Toronto B	10	10	10	30	HEM
UBC B	Toronto E	0	10	0	10	E
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD C	0	10	0	10	E
UCSD A	UCLA A	0	10	10	20	EM
UCSD B	UCLA B	0	10	0	10	E
Virginia	Liberty C	0	10	10	20	EM
Virginia Tech A	VCU	10	10	10	30	HEM
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20	EM
WashU B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10	E
Washington A	Washington B	0	10	10	20	EM
Waterloo A	McMaster A	0	10	10	20	EM
Western B	Toronto D	0	10	0	10	E
William and Mary	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30	HEM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	✓	12	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	Main Site	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	23.75	100%	100%	38%