Round 1: Tossup 15

Description Acceptable. One event in this location begins at the Ur-Nes and is threatened by a figure born from an umbilical cord. Another event in this location involves reading 42 negative confessions listed in a text named for Ani. After that event, some figures are selected to progress to this place’s (*) “Field of Reeds.” While in this place, priests (10[1])destroy wax models of one figure to help his adversary pass through this place’s twelve gates. After leaving this place, one god manifests as the scarab (10[1])Khepri. Ammit (10[1])devours impure hearts weighed against the feather of Ma'at in this location. At night, Ra’s solar barge traverses through, for 10 points, what place ruled by Osiris? ■END■

ANSWER: Duat [or Tuat or Amenthes; accept descriptions of the Egyptian underworld or the Egyptian afterlife; accept kingdom of Osiris before “Osiris”; prompt on underworld or afterlife]
<Mythology, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 01
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Buzzes


Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-246100%17%33%70.67
Triangle Cup2026-03-133100%0%0%70.33
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-133100%0%0%76.00
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-134100%0%0%77.00
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-135100%20%20%62.20
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-243100%0%33%79.00
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-244100%0%25%71.75
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-304100%0%0%69.75
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19580%0%60%96.50
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17888%63%13%38.86