Round 1: Tossup 8
Rather than being executed for murdering his wife, a character in this novel is tattooed on his face. One character in this novel releases fish from a cage after a fisherman doesn't sell him any, and that character gains a nickname due to his twin axes. This novel begins with the release of golden rays after a stone tortoise is moved. A character in this novel drinks (*) 18 bowls of wine and then beats a tiger dead. That character, Wu Song, inspired an erotic spinoff of this novel titled The Plum in the Golden Vase. Song Jiang leads a group of reincarnated demons against the corrupt official Gao Qiu in, for 10 points, what classic Chinese novel by Shi Nai'an about a group of 108 outlaws? ■END■
ANSWER: Water Margin [or Outlaws of the Marsh or All Men Are Brothers or Shui Hu Zhuan]
<Literature - World, Hari Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 01
= Average correct buzzpoint
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzzpoint | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamran Nawaz (St. Mark's) | Texas B | Washington | 58 | 15 |
| Suchet Kuturu | Georgia A | Georgia B | 60 | 15 |
| Ryan Liu | North Carolina | Texas A | 76 | -5 |
| Sita Agastya | New York | Georgia C | 84 | -5 |
| Hanna Wu | Kentucky | California | 122 | 10 |
| Luke Coughlin (Autrey Mill) | Georgia C | New York | 126 | 0 |
| Aarya Joshi | Texas A | North Carolina | 126 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Avg. Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✕ | 6 | 83% | 67% | 17% | 67.00 |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 91.00 |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 100% | 67% | 33% | 77.67 |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 80.00 |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 80% | 20% | 40% | 89.50 |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 90.50 |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 117.00 |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 106.67 |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 80% | 40% | 40% | 91.50 |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 88% | 38% | 38% | 81.57 |