Persian AND Russian Empires - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet G: Tossup 18

A war between these two historic powers ended with one side’s victories at Aslanduz and Lankaran. The author of Woe from Wit was an ambassador (-5[1])of one of these (10[1])powers (10[1])to the other (10[1]-5[1])when he was (10[1])killed (-5[1])for sheltering (10[2])escaped Christian concubines. (10[1])The southward (10[1])motion (-5[1])of (-5[1])the border between these two powers from the Terek River to the Aras River (-5[2])ended (-5[1])with the Treaty of (-5[1])Turkmenchay. (10[1]-5[2])In a 1722–23 (10[3]-5[1])amphibious campaign, (-5[2])one of these powers captured from the other most of the south shore of a shared body (-5[1])of water, (10[1]-5[3])including (-5[2])the cities of (-5[1])Rasht, (-5[1])Tarki, and (-5[1])Derbent. (-5[3])One of these (10[1])powers captured (-5[1])the Erivan and Nakhchivan (10[1]-5[1])Khanates (-5[3])from the other, (10[1]-5[1])partitioning (-5[3])the lands (10[1])of the (10[1]-5[1])Azeri people. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[2])what (-5[1])two (10[1])powers’ (-5[1])wars over the Caucasus (10[1]0[1]-5[4])began with (10[1])Peter the Great (-5[1])launching (-5[1])the Caspian (-5[2])Flotilla (10[1]-5[1])against a collapsing (0[1])Safavid (10[1]0[1])Empire? (10[3])■END■ (10[31]0[20])

ANSWER: Persian AND Russian Empires [accept Iran or the Safavid Dynasty (until read) or the Qajar Dynasty in place of “Persia”; accept Tsardom of Russia or Tsardom of Moscow in place of “Russia”] (The author is Alexander Griboyedov.)

<NYU A, World History> | Packet G - McMaster A, Notre Dame C, Rutgers A, NYU A

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Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Ved Muthusamy	Northwestern B	Purdue B	24	-5
Mitch McCullar	Penn State	Binghamton A	28	10
Galen Mueller	McGill A	Ottawa	29	10
Sumukh Murthy	UCSD A	UCSD C	32	-5
Omer Keskin	Edinburgh A	Cambridge B	32	10
Vivian Malouf	Berkeley A	Berkeley C	35	10
Antoni Kluzowski	Warwick A	Bristol	36	-5
Milan Fernandez	Brock	Toronto C	38	10
Thomas Tibbetts	Central Florida C	Central Florida A	38	10
Kevin Le	Carleton University	Simon Fraser	41	10
Mehmet Tatoglu	Oxford A	Cambridge A	43	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota A	Carleton College	44	-5
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Tennessee A	45	-5
Micah Colman	Waterloo A	UBC B	59	-5
Sam McNamee	Notre Dame A	Chicago E	59	-5
Terrence Han	UCLA A	UC Santa Barbara	60	-5
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford A	Berkeley B	64	-5
Jaskaran Singh	UCLA B	UCSD B	65	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	Purdue A	65	-5
Max Neal	Harvard B	Harvard A	65	-5
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Central Florida B	68	10
Andrew Amygdalos	CWRU A	Ohio State C	68	10
Sasha Fillbrandt	Washington A	Washington B	68	-5
Jackie Xu	Cornell A	Cornell B	68	10
Sam Konkel	Chicago C	Northwestern C	70	-5
Yrwin Batan	MIT	Dartmouth B	70	-5
Joey Sun	Toronto B	Toronto Metropolitan	87	-5
Eva Mandelbaum	Guelph	Toronto F	89	10
Jakob Meyers	Indiana A	Chicago A	89	-5
Athena Shadden	Texas A	Texas A&M A	89	-5
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge C	Warwick B	89	-5
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	90	-5
Kai Madgwick	Manchester	Imperial A	90	-5
Khanh Nguyen	Florida C	Florida A	93	-5
Sriram Koritala	Illinois C	Chicago B	94	-5
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto D	McMaster B	96	-5
Amir Dolansky	Toronto E	Toronto G	97	-5
Josh Schmidt	Liberty A	Virginia	97	-5
Jack Feinberg	Brandeis A	Brown	97	-5
Henry Jameson	LSE	Montpellier	100	10
Mats Miller	Chicago D	Illinois B	102	-5
Jay Misuk	Western C	UBC A	106	10
Mia Clark-Webb	Oxford C	Imperial C	106	-5
Ethan Bosita	Stanford B	Berkeley D	107	-5
Ian Theysmeyer	Queen's	Western B	107	-5
Jackson McDonald	Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	107	-5
Sam Kemeny	Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	110	10
Owen Gilroy	Texas B	Murray State A	110	-5
Prahalad Rao	Ohio State B	Michigan State	111	-5
James Horsley	Iowa State	Georgia Tech A	111	-5
Joseph Collins	Imperial B	UCL	111	-5
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech A	Duke	113	10
Rae Meyers	Arizona State	UC Irvine	115	-5
Andrew Vincent	Northwestern D	Indiana C	115	10
Jeffery Austin	North Carolina C	William and Mary	117	10
Adam Iqbal	Durham	Southampton A	117	-5
Jaden Rupolo	Liberty B	South Carolina B	120	-5
Alex Thomas	Georgia Tech B	Louisville B	120	-5
Charles Hang	WashU A	Georgia Tech D	121	-5
Dennis Reppen	Imperial A	Manchester	122	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan A	Michigan C	123	-5
Vinu Harihar	Berkeley B	Stanford A	127	0
John Gamble	NC State A	VCU	127	-5
Tommy Donelon	Missouri B	Missouri A	127	-5
Teddy Fogel	Birmingham	Edinburgh B	127	-5
Zach Foster	City St. George's	Southampton B	127	10
Rishi Pendyala	Cornell C	Binghamton B	127	-5
Diego Almaraz	North Carolina B	Wake Forest	129	10
John McQueen	South Carolina A	NC State B	132	-5
Matthew Stall	CWRU B	Michigan B	133	-5
Alina Moore	Tennessee B	Kentucky	135	-5
Rick Line	Cardiff	Oxford B	135	-5
Nova Sink	Virginia Tech B	Liberty C	136	-5
Artem Borisov	Bristol	Warwick A	136	10
Isaac Studley	Carleton College	Minnesota A	139	0
Alexander Clarke	Yale	Southern Connecticut State	140	10
Alan Fan	Washington B	Washington A	140	0
Aryan Desarapu	Michigan B	CWRU B	141	10
Christian Sherrington	Southampton A	Durham	141	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT	Rochester	141	10
Tyler Zhao	Berkeley D	Stanford B	142	0
Scott Sibley	UC Irvine	Arizona State	142	0
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA A	142	10
Gary Lin	UCSD C	UCSD A	142	10
Luke Sloan	McGill B	Western A	142	10
Yusuf Baig	McMaster B	Toronto D	142	0
Dustin Vali	Western B	Queen's	142	10
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto G	Toronto E	142	0
Ishan Joshi	Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto B	142	10
Tai Belke	UBC B	Waterloo A	142	0
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida C	142	10
Carter Pisocky	Michigan C	Michigan A	142	10
Andrew Harms	Michigan State	Ohio State B	142	0
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Ohio State A	142	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Liberty A	142	10
Kabir Zaman	South Carolina B	Liberty B	142	0
Jack Pilkinton	James Madison B	North Carolina A	142	10
Dan Rajaratnam	NC State B	South Carolina A	142	10
Max Bendsen	VCU	NC State A	142	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Virginia Tech B	142	10
Aden Sun	Chicago B	Illinois C	142	10
Jack Casey	Illinois B	Chicago D	142	10
Nikolas Polsinelli	Chicago A	Indiana A	142	10
Aditya Rajesh	Northwestern C	Chicago C	142	10
Raymond Ha	Chicago E	Notre Dame A	142	10
Nolan Jones	Purdue A	Illinois A	142	0
Evan Gniadek	Purdue B	Northwestern B	142	10
Dash Rumble	Bowdoin A	Bowdoin B	142	0
Joseph Xu	Bowdoin B	Bowdoin A	142	0
Megan Wang	Brown	Brandeis A	142	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	MIT	142	10
Michael Kearney	Harvard A	Harvard B	142	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech A	Iowa State	142	0
Braxton Davis	Missouri A	Missouri B	142	10
Dwight Solano	Texas A&M A	Texas A	142	10
Kanyon Beck	Murray State A	Texas B	142	10
Graham Cope	Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	142	10
Davin Sivertson	Alabama B	Louisville A	142	0
Teshawn McDonald	Louisville A	Alabama B	142	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	Bruin	142	10
Aaryan Tomar	Georgia Tech D	WashU A	142	0
Beckett Gillmore	Louisville B	Georgia Tech B	142	0
Olivia Kiser	Kentucky	Tennessee B	142	10
Katie Farthing	Vanderbilt B	Mississipi State	142	0
Sawyer Smith	Mississipi State	Vanderbilt B	142	0
Lovel Hearn	Edinburgh B	Birmingham	142	0
Imran Abdul Rahman	UCL	Imperial B	142	10
Paige Crawley	Oxford B	Cardiff	142	0
Ollie Glin-Conway	Imperial C	Oxford C	142	10
William Gillard	Warwick B	Cambridge C	142	0
Eli O'Sick Johnson	Binghamton B	Cornell C	142	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	33%	67%	35.00
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	75%	75%	116.33
Canada	Main Site	✓	11	73%	45%	91.13
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	100%	33%	82.67
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	80%	80%	123.25
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	89%	56%	133.63
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	88%	88%	138.14
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	83%	50%	135.20
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	25%	100%	142.00
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	100%	100%	142.00
Southeast	Main Site	✓	8	50%	63%	142.00
UK	Main Site	✓	12	75%	67%	109.44
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	75%	25%	79.00