coffee - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet H: Tossup 2

Robert Boyd Tytler (“TIGHT-ler”) pioneered the cultivation of this crop in a colony by using rainwater to wash it for higher quality. In the 1950s, growers of this crop in one country began advertising it using the fictional character Juan Valdez and the (10[1])donkey (10[4])Conchita. (10[1]-5[1])A (10[1])shortage (10[2]-5[1])of this good (10[1]-5[1])in the 1970s (-5[1])triggered a political (10[1])crisis (-5[2])in East Germany. (10[1])According (10[4])to legend, (10[5]-5[1])this good was originally (10[1])discovered by the goatherd (10[2])Kaldi. (10[12])This good (10[5])exploded in popularity (10[2])in (10[1])the United States (10[2]-5[1])due to being issued to Civil War soldiers, (10[2])who coped with shortages of it by roasting chicory. (10[4]-5[3])Establishments (10[2]-5[1])dedicated (-5[1])to (10[1])the (10[1])consumption of this substance (10[2])first appeared in the Ottoman Empire, which sourced (10[1])this good from the city of Mokha. For 10 points, name this good produced from Robusta and Arabica (10[1])beans. (10[1])■END■ (10[11])

ANSWER: coffee [accept coffee beans]

<CJ, Other History> | Packet H - Yale A, Ohio State C, Illinois C, Virginia Tech B, MIT A

= Average correct buzzpoint

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Dwight Solano	Texas A&M A	Murray State A	41	10
Dexter Hine	Simon Fraser	Brock	42	10
Carter Yott	McMaster A	Ottawa	42	10
Tomas Ospina	Alabama A	WashU A	42	10
Cole Hartung	Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	42	10
Jay Misuk	Western C	Toronto C	43	-5
Aditya Shivaswamy	Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	43	10
David Vellojin	Western A	Toronto D	44	10
Alex Bellon	UCSD A	Arizona State	45	10
Cate Brunt	Queen's	UBC A	45	10
Dillon George	Catholic	Rutgers B	45	-5
Zach Foster	City St. George's	Cardiff	48	10
Ani Perumalla	Penn State	Cornell B	48	-5
Anna Barker	Central Florida C	Florida A	51	-5
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Rutgers A	54	10
Andrew Harms	Michigan State	CWRU B	55	-5
Ali Hamzeh	Edinburgh A	Imperial A	55	-5
Robert Wang	Columbia A	NYU B	58	10
Vivian Malouf	Berkeley A	Stanford B	59	10
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley C	Berkeley B	59	10
Sam McNamee	Notre Dame A	Chicago C	59	10
Jakob Meyers	Indiana A	Indiana B	59	10
Jaskaran Singh	UCLA B	UCLA A	61	10
Stuart Chandler-Baas	Carleton University	McGill A	61	-5
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Toronto B	61	10
William Houston	Chicago B	Indiana C	61	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	Northwestern D	61	10
Shreyas Sinha	Texas B	Texas A	61	10
Kai Madgwick	Manchester	Oxford A	65	10
Thomas Jenkins	Michigan C	CWRU A	69	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Georgia Tech C	69	10
Andrew Zeng	Stanford A	Berkeley D	70	10
Kerry Xu	UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	70	10
Peyton Legg	Central Florida B	Central Florida A	70	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue B	Chicago E	70	10
Aaron Marchand	Carleton College	Washington A	70	10
Conner Yamnitz	WashU B	Alabama B	70	10
Monish Jampala	Georgia Tech D	Louisville B	70	10
Olivia Kiser	Kentucky	Louisville A	70	10
Tok Shing Henry Wong	Cambridge C	Southampton B	70	10
Krishna Girish	Montpellier	Edinburgh B	70	10
Lucas Johns	Warwick A	Cambridge B	70	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland B	Columbia C	70	10
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto G	McGill B	72	10
Ved Muthusamy	Northwestern B	Chicago A	72	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech A	Missouri B	72	10
Riley Bruce	Tennessee B	Vanderbilt B	72	10
Brian Hoff	Cornell B	Penn State	72	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan A	Ohio State A	75	10
Julian Sung	Oxford C	Oxford B	75	10
Ethan Ririe	UCSD C	UC Irvine	76	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida C	79	-5
Vivian Fan	Claremont	Washington B	79	10
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore	Maryland A	79	10
Dawson Teu	Waterloo B	Toronto E	87	10
Agnijo Banerjee	Cambridge A	Bristol	87	10
Dennis Yang	Michigan B	Pittsburgh	96	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Minnesota A	96	10
Arhith Dharanendra	Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	96	-5
Mikey Brown	Birmingham	Durham	96	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	Vassar	96	10
Peter Smith	Binghamton A	Rochester	96	-5
Kevin Peng	Cornell A	RIT	96	-5
Monica Wang	Guelph	UBC B	97	10
Mats Miller	Chicago D	Purdue A	97	-5
Dennis Reppen	Imperial A	Edinburgh A	97	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto F	Western B	98	-5
Shardul Parthasarathy	Illinois B	Notre Dame B	99	10
Nathan Long	Imperial B	LSE	100	10
Patrick Hartley	Warwick B	Imperial C	104	10
Florrie the Mononymous	Southampton A	UCL	104	10
Ishan Joshi	Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	112	10
Dustin Vali	Western B	Toronto F	130	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT	Cornell A	131	10
Galen Mueller	McGill A	Carleton University	132	10
Franklin Wu	Toronto C	Western C	132	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida A	Central Florida C	132	10
Khanh Nguyen	Florida C	Florida B	132	10
Angelo Pan	CWRU B	Michigan State	132	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue A	Chicago D	132	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech B	132	10
Sawyer Smith	Mississipi State	Sewanee	132	10
Mark Tawfik	Rutgers B	Catholic	132	10
Killian Simonson	Rochester	Binghamton A	132	10
Derek Li	Cornell C	Binghamton B	132	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	100%	0%	62.67
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	100%	0%	63.00
Canada	Main Site	✓	12	100%	25%	83.00
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	100%	67%	111.33
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	4	100%	25%	93.00
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	100%	13%	76.63
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	100%	0%	79.25
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	100%	0%	51.00
Southeast	Main Site	✓	8	100%	13%	82.13
UK	Main Site	✓	12	100%	8%	82.17
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	100%	13%	71.75
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	100%	75%	116.75