2026 ACF Nationals - Buzzpoints

Matthew Sumanen
Georgia Tech C

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	6	Science - Physics	Lars Onsager	77	10		✓	3
1	1	17	Literature - World	Somalia	89	-5
1	1	18	Philosophy	Max	141	0
2	2	17	Science - Other	polygons	94	-5
3	3	1	Social Science	factor analysis	122	-5
3	3	7	Science - Physics	gamma matrices	64	-5
3	3	14	Philosophy	Gayatri Spivak	111	10			9
4	4	3	Science - Physics	electronic correlation	29	-5
4	4	9	Literature - World	mystery fiction	95	-5
4	4	17	History - World	Taira clan	148	10			10
5	5	17	Philosophy	Donald Davidson	103	10			6
6	6	3	Current Events	LDP	61	10		✓	3
6	6	15	Science - Other	genus	62	10		✓	2
6	6	16	Religion	spoken by Jesus	106	-5
6	6	20	Science - Physics	CP violation	129	0
7	7	2	Science - Other	Bessel functions	118	-5
7	7	9	Current Events	“From the river to the sea”	104	10			8
7	7	20	Philosophy	mereology	130	0
11	2	3	Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture	Aristotle	106	-5
11	2	6	Science - Other	non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function	96	10			6
11	2	15	Science - Chemistry	fluorination	125	10			14	✓
11	2	17	Current Events	scams	61	-5
11	2	19	Philosophy	law of excluded middle	57	10			6
12	3	1	Science - Physics	impedance	101	10			8
12	3	19	Science - Other	dimensionality	108	10			11
13	4	15	History - World	tea	139	10			18	✓
14	5	2	Philosophy	antinatalism	103	10			10
14	5	12	Social Science	economic surplus	84	-5
15	6	1	Science - Chemistry	kinetic isotope effect	105	10			8
15	6	5	Religion	Inari	51	10	✓	✓	1
15	6	16	Science - Physics	coherence	68	10			4
15	6	17	Mythology	rivers	61	10			4
16	7	10	Science - Physics	thermodynamic limit	20	-5
17	8	1	Science - Biology	Purkinje cells	99	-5
17	8	5	Literature - European	“White Nights”	132	10			10
17	8	15	Philosophy	Voltaire	132	-5
17	8	17	Science - Other	open	78	10	✓	✓	1
17	8	19	Science - Physics	free electron model	102	-5
18	9	18	Science - Other	bootstrapping	77	-5
19	10	9	Science - Physics	stress–energy tensor	73	10		✓	3

Matthew SumanenGeorgia Tech C

Matthew Sumanen
Georgia Tech C