Max - 2026 ACF Nationals

Packet 1: Tossup 18

A phenomenologist with this first name broke with Husserl to argue that consciousness is characterized by the suspension of impulse in texts like The Human Place in the Cosmos, and built on Nietzsche in his book Ressentiment. (10[1])A thinker with this first name (-5[1])railed against “humanists” in The False Principle of Our Education. (10[1])That thinker with this first name argued for an outlook based on eigenheit in a book that claims humans go through “realistic” and “idealistic” stages. After fellow Young Hegelians Ludwig Feuerbach and Bruno Bauer, a thinker with this first name (10[1])is the third target of Volume (10[1])I of Marx’s The German Ideology. (10[2])A proto-anarchist thinker with (-5[1])this first name (10[1])presented a form of radical individualism in The Ego (10[1])and Its (10[3])Own. (10[4])For 10 points, give the first name of German philosophers with the last names Scheler (“SHAY-ler”) and Stirner. (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: Max [accept Max Stirner or Max Scheler; prompt on Johann by asking “that philosopher used what first name to publish all of his writing?”]

<Waterloo, Philosophy> | A. Prelims 1 - Waterloo + Toronto A + Georgia Tech B

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	Illinois A	36	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	British Columbia	42	-5
Alex Jiang	Brown	Vanderbilt	52	10
Mitch McCullar	Penn State	UCLA	92	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Toronto B	98	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford A	Illinois B	104	10
Jean-Patrick Michael Torre	Maryland A	Indiana	104	10
Stephen Walsh	Northwestern B	Stanford B	108	-5
Vivian Malouf	UC Berkeley A	Columbia A	111	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Cornell	120	10
John Marvin	Chicago A	Harvard	122	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	Johns Hopkins	122	10
Jacob Puthipiroj	Northwestern A	Michigan	122	10
Zachary Joseph	Columbia B	MIT	123	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Maryland B	123	10
Alexander Nichols	UCF	North Carolina	123	10
Orion Keller	Virginia Tech	Purdue	123	10
Charles Hang	WashU	Swarthmore	140	10
Arhith Dharanendra	Georgia Tech A	Georgetown	141	10
Matthew Sumanen	Georgia Tech C	Chicago B	141	0
Ethan Bosita	Stanford B	Northwestern B	141	10
Jisoo Yoo	Texas	Ohio State	141	10
Aiden Dartley	Rutgers	Cambridge	141	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia	Virginia	141	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	22	95%	9%	115.24