guitar - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet H: Tossup 8

A player of this instrument developed a rhythmic pattern that alternates between a grace note into a quarter note and a short, accented quarter note, known as “the pump.” The album Solo Flight (10[1])collects recordings (10[1])by one of the (10[1])first (10[1]-5[2])important soloists on this instrument, whose 20-chorus solo on “Rose Room” (10[1])allowed him to join the Benny (-5[1])Goodman Sextet. (-5[1])In swing, this instrument usually comps staccato quarter notes (10[1])in Freddie Green voicings. (10[4])Charlie Christian (10[1])played (-5[2])this (10[1])instrument, (10[4]-5[1])as did the developer of “jazz manouche.” (10[1]-5[2])With violinist Stéphane (10[3])Grappelli, (10[5])a (10[1])player of this instrument (10[2])founded the (10[1]-5[1])Quintette du Hot Club (-5[1])de (10[1])France, (10[2])which (10[1])recorded his songs (10[1])“Minor Swing” and “Nuages.” For 10 points, (10[1])what instrument was played by the three-fingered Romani (10[1])virtuoso (10[3]-5[1])Django (10[2])Reinhardt? (10[2]-5[1])■END■ (10[10]0[29])

ANSWER: guitar [accept electric guitar; accept acoustic guitar]

<FW, Other Fine Arts> | Packet H - Yale A, Ohio State C, Illinois C, Virginia Tech B, MIT A

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Justin Wytmar	NYU A	Vassar	32	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Georgia Tech C	34	10
Micah Colman	Waterloo A	Toronto B	38	10
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	Indiana B	39	-5
Frances Hadley	Edinburgh A	Imperial A	39	10
Kevin Peng	Cornell A	RIT	39	-5
Moses Kitakule	Columbia A	NYU B	50	10
Peter Ballas	Michigan C	CWRU A	56	-5
Denis Liu	Stanford B	Berkeley A	58	-5
John Marvin	Chicago A	Northwestern B	67	10
Sriram Susarla	UBC B	Guelph	71	10
Colin Veevers	Ottawa	McMaster A	71	10
Safiya Hasan	Missouri B	Georgia Tech A	71	10
Brandon Weiss	Columbia C	Maryland B	71	10
David Nickel	Purdue B	Chicago E	73	10
Rae Meyers	Arizona State	UCSD A	74	-5
Franklin Wu	Toronto C	Western C	74	-5
John John Groger	WashU A	Alabama A	75	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCSD B	76	10
Milan Fernandez	Brock	Simon Fraser	76	10
Ella Tang	McGill B	Toronto G	76	10
Cole Hartung	Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	76	-5
David Bass	Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	76	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford A	Berkeley D	83	-5
Julian Sung	Oxford C	Oxford B	83	-5
Ben LaFond	Cambridge B	Warwick A	83	10
Brendan Baumer	Central Florida B	Central Florida A	86	10
Shardul Parthasarathy	Illinois B	Notre Dame B	86	10
S. A. Shenoy	Georgia Tech D	Louisville B	86	10
Karthik Jayaram	UCLA A	UCLA B	87	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota A	Iowa State	87	10
Henry Jameson	LSE	Imperial B	87	10
Andy Yu	Maryland A	Swarthmore	87	10
Ani Perumalla	Penn State	Cornell B	87	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Northwestern D	88	10
Randy Guo	Texas B	Texas A	92	10
Michael Wu	Southampton A	UCL	92	10
Alex Thomas	Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	94	-5
Harri Slaughter	Cardiff	City St. George's	94	10
Emily Justak	Indiana C	Chicago B	98	-5
Andrei Hui	Cambridge A	Bristol	99	10
Rae Prince	Murray State A	Texas A&M A	100	10
Danny Tran	Tennessee B	Vanderbilt B	100	10
Eve Fleisig	Berkeley A	Stanford B	101	10
Sophie Lyman	WashU B	Alabama B	104	10
Alan Zhang	UBC A	Queen's	111	10
Olivia Kiser	Kentucky	Louisville A	119	10
Dennis Yang	Michigan B	Pittsburgh	120	10
Hamish Campbell	Durham	Birmingham	120	-5
Kai Madgwick	Manchester	Oxford A	120	10
Jack Rado	Columbia B	Rutgers A	120	10
Ishan Joshi	Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	121	10
Robert Chen	Rochester	Binghamton A	121	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Waterloo B	122	-5
Krishna Girish	Montpellier	Edinburgh B	122	10
Jarman Taylor	Johns Hopkins B	Georgetown	122	10
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley C	Berkeley B	123	10
Rishabh Dave	Berkeley D	Stanford A	123	0
Ethan Ririe	UCSD C	UC Irvine	123	0
Jadon Pandian	UC Irvine	UCSD C	123	0
Fish Tsai	UCSD A	Arizona State	123	0
Ava Butler	McGill A	Carleton University	123	10
Rayton Lin	Waterloo B	Toronto E	123	10
Cameron Liu	Toronto F	Western B	123	0
Max Polsky	Western B	Toronto F	123	0
Noah Lee	Western A	Toronto D	123	0
Samuel Zheng	Toronto D	Western A	123	0
Jay Misuk	Western C	Toronto C	123	10
Thomas Tibbetts	Central Florida C	Florida A	123	0
June Miller	Florida A	Central Florida C	123	0
Nicholas Cuevas	Florida B	Florida C	123	0
Khanh Nguyen	Florida C	Florida B	123	10
Jake Meltzer	CWRU A	Michigan C	123	0
Tobias Zajac	Michigan State	CWRU B	123	0
Anthony Yin	CWRU B	Michigan State	123	0
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State A	Michigan A	123	0
Todd Maslyk	Michigan A	Ohio State A	123	0
Samarth Ram	Chicago B	Indiana C	123	0
Jacob Finley	Notre Dame A	Chicago C	123	0
Eric Yang	Purdue A	Chicago D	123	10
Alana Dickey	Indiana B	Indiana A	123	0
Sasha Fillbrandt	Washington A	Carleton College	123	10
Alan Fan	Washington B	Claremont	123	10
Parker McCoig	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech B	123	0
Ben Tibbles	Sewanee	Mississipi State	123	0
Towery McNeil	Mississipi State	Sewanee	123	0
Zosia Mikolajczuk	Southampton B	Cambridge C	123	0
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge C	Southampton B	123	0
Dan Millington	Birmingham	Durham	123	10
Hiten Umarnani	Imperial C	Warwick B	123	0
William Gillard	Warwick B	Imperial C	123	0
Zoë McGuire	Oxford B	Oxford C	123	0
Mark Tawfik	Rutgers B	Catholic	123	0
Eli O'Sick Johnson	Binghamton B	Cornell C	123	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT	Cornell A	123	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	67%	67%	112.00
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	50%	25%	81.50
Canada	Main Site	✓	12	83%	17%	93.30
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	67%	0%	104.50
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	4	25%	25%	120.00
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	63%	25%	87.40
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	100%	0%	101.00
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	100%	0%	96.00
Southeast	Main Site	✓	8	75%	13%	86.33
UK	Main Site	✓	12	75%	17%	95.44
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	88%	13%	79.71
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	75%	25%	110.33