accession to the European Union - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet F: Tossup 10

Description acceptable. A year after the largest instance of this action, a tourism board ran ads with a handsome plumber to spoof a stock character invoked by opponents of it. (10[1])The PHARE restructuring program was created to assist in this action. The Copenhagen criteria were drawn up in anticipation of multiple instances (10[2])of this action (-5[3])after (10[1])the (10[1])breakup of the Soviet Union. (10[3]-5[1])The “petit oui” (10[1])was a lukewarm (10[2]-5[1])response to one proposed instance of this action, (10[2]-5[2])which (10[1])was rejected by two referendums (10[2]-5[1])in Norway. (10[3]-5[2])The abandonment (10[3]-5[1])of (10[1])preliminary (10[1]-5[1])steps (10[2]-5[1])toward (10[1]-5[2])taking (10[1])this (-5[1])action (10[1]-5[1])by the government (10[2]-5[1])of Viktor (10[1])Yanukovych (10[2]-5[2])triggered (10[1]-5[2])the (10[2]-5[1])Maidan (10[2]-5[2])uprising. (10[7])The adoption (10[1])of a common (10[2])currency following this (10[1])action (10[1]-5[1])is governed by criteria (10[3])laid out in the (10[1])Maastricht (10[2])Treaty. (10[2])For 10 points, name this (10[1])action (10[1])that was (10[1])reversed by Brexit. (10[2])■END■ (10[20]0[2])

ANSWER: accession to the European Union [accept joining in place of “accession”; accept EU or European Community or European Communities or EC or European Economic Community or EEC in place of “European Union”; accept enlargement of the European Union or EU; accept European integration]

<CJ, European History> | Packet F - Chicago C, McGill C, WashU A, Chicago B

= Average correct buzzpoint

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State A	Michigan C	29	10
Andrew Amygdalos	CWRU A	Ohio State B	51	10
Raymond Jiang	Illinois C	Northwestern D	51	10
Jakob Meyers	Indiana A	Purdue B	54	-5
Davin Sivertson	Alabama B	Louisville B	54	-5
Elliot Cosnett	Oxford A	Cambridge B	54	-5
Nikolas Polsinelli	Chicago A	Indiana B	55	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida A	Central Florida B	56	10
Ethen Sun	Toronto D	Toronto C	61	10
Wyatt Johnson	CWRU B	Ohio State C	61	10
Joseph Collins	Imperial B	Birmingham	61	10
Daniel Bloom	Edinburgh B	UCL	61	-5
Andrew Zeng	Stanford A	Berkeley A	64	10
Max Neal	Harvard B	Bowdoin A	67	10
Dwight Solano	Texas A&M A	Texas B	67	-5
Tok Shing Henry Wong	Cambridge C	Oxford B	67	10
Ethan Bosita	Stanford B	Berkeley C	75	-5
Todd Maslyk	Michigan A	Michigan B	75	-5
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU B	Maryland C	75	10
Vikshar Athreya	Rutgers A	Swarthmore	75	10
Cole Hartung	Georgetown	Columbia A	76	10
Sumukh Murthy	UCSD A	UCLA B	81	10
Jay Misuk	Western C	McGill B	81	-5
Ian Theysmeyer	Queen's	Simon Fraser	81	10
Shiva Tegulla	Central Florida A	Florida B	83	-5
Khanh Nguyen	Florida C	Central Florida C	83	10
Jonathan Huang	MIT	Brown	83	-5
Sawyer Smith	Mississipi State	Louisville A	83	10
Brendan Bethlehem	Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	83	10
John Augustyn	Notre Dame B	Chicago D	85	10
Akshay Seetharam	Claremont	Washington A	85	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota A	Missouri A	85	-5
Rick Line	Cardiff	Warwick B	85	10
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Ottawa	86	10
Yash Modi	Western B	Toronto Metropolitan	87	10
Jesse Mindel	NC State A	Duke	87	-5
Kerry Xu	UCSD B	UCSD C	88	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Brandeis A	88	10
Lucas Johns	Warwick A	Manchester	88	-5
Nicholas Kwan	Western A	UBC A	89	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	NC State B	89	10
Sam Kemeny	Brandeis B	Harvard A	89	-5
Ariel Faeder	Pittsburgh	Michigan State	90	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins A	Maryland B	91	-5
Eva Mandelbaum	Guelph	Waterloo B	92	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State	Dartmouth A	92	-5
Jack Casey	Illinois B	Illinois A	95	10
Kanyon Beck	Murray State A	Texas A	95	-5
Joel Dicker	Southampton B	Oxford C	95	10
Rishabh Dave	Berkeley D	Berkeley B	97	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Wake Forest	98	-5
Alan Fan	Washington B	Georgia Tech A	98	10
Danny Tran	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	98	-5
Benedykt Chodzko-Zajko	Southampton A	Montpellier	98	10
Richard Pollard	UCL	Edinburgh B	99	10
Artem Borisov	Bristol	Imperial A	99	-5
Derek Li	Cornell C	Cornell A	99	-5
Nolan Jones	Purdue A	Indiana C	100	-5
Lucas Barnes	Missouri B	Iowa State	100	10
Mark Tawfik	Rutgers B	NYU A	100	10
Stuart Chandler-Baas	Carleton University	Toronto B	101	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina A	William and Mary	101	-5
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	101	-5
Jonah Hubert	Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	101	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	102	10
Nick Machin	UCLA A	Arizona State	102	10
Rafael Castro	Imperial C	City St. George's	102	10
Albert Nyang	LSE	Durham	102	10
Jerry Vinokurov	John Jay	Columbia C	102	10
Zachary Joseph	Columbia B	NYU C	102	10
Brian Hoff	Cornell B	Rochester	102	10
Adil Haider	McMaster A	Toronto F	104	10
Jeffery Austin	North Carolina C	South Carolina B	107	10
Aditya Rajesh	Northwestern C	Chicago E	107	10
Graham Cope	Georgia Tech C	Kentucky	110	10
Alex Thomas	Georgia Tech B	WashU B	111	-5
Cade Reinberger	RIT	Penn State	111	10
Zachary Bornstein	Virginia Tech B	James Madison A	115	10
Andres Cordoba	Yale	Bowdoin B	115	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Alabama A	115	10
Charlie Lowman	Imperial A	Bristol	119	10
Yusuf Baig	McMaster B	Brock	120	10
Nico Lotto	Vassar	Johns Hopkins B	120	10
Meredie Cohen	William and Mary	North Carolina A	121	10
Aaryan Tomar	Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	121	10
James Watson	Wake Forest	South Carolina A	126	10
Jack Pilkinton	James Madison B	VCU	127	10
Aneesh Shrotriya	Purdue B	Indiana A	129	10
Aryan Desarapu	Michigan B	Michigan A	132	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Southern Connecticut State	132	10
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley C	Stanford B	133	10
Luke Sloan	McGill B	Western C	133	10
Matthew Wang	UBC A	Western A	133	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Central Florida A	133	10
David Ropp	Duke	NC State A	133	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Liberty A	133	10
Jaden Rupolo	Liberty B	Virginia Tech A	133	10
Emily Justak	Indiana C	Purdue A	133	0
Michael Kearney	Harvard A	Brandeis B	133	10
Megan Wang	Brown	MIT	133	10
Braxton Davis	Missouri A	Minnesota A	133	10
Owen Gilroy	Texas B	Texas A&M A	133	10
Bryce Cruise	Texas A	Murray State A	133	10
Beckett Gillmore	Louisville B	Alabama B	133	10
Jerry Lin	Vanderbilt B	Sewanee	133	0
Ben Tibbles	Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	133	10
Camden Walker	WashU B	Georgia Tech B	133	10
Kai Madgwick	Manchester	Warwick A	133	10
Jacob Price	Cambridge B	Oxford A	133	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland B	Johns Hopkins A	133	10
Molly Oakley	Binghamton B	Binghamton A	133	10
Julian Bushlow	Cornell A	Cornell C	133	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	100%	33%	98.00
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	100%	0%	93.25
Canada	Main Site	✓	10	100%	20%	99.80
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	100%	33%	90.67
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	100%	20%	72.60
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	100%	44%	120.44
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	88%	25%	89.00
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	100%	50%	111.33
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	100%	25%	104.00
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	100%	100%	133.00
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	100%	43%	118.29
UK	Main Site	✓	12	100%	33%	98.08
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	100%	13%	97.88
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	100%	25%	119.75