Question

The author of this series started writing it around the time he wrote An Evening with Margaret Mead, inspired by the possibility of art as explored in his autobiographical work How I Learned What I Learned. This series’s characters include a harmonica player called both Canewell and Stool Pigeon and a healer who dies at age 366 called Aunt Ester. (20[3])Gem (20[2])of the Ocean (20[2])and (20[2])(*) Radio (10[1])Golf (10[1])bookend (10[2])this series, (10[2])whose ten entries are each set (10[1])in a different decade of the 20th century. In an entry in this series, a potential football (10[1])scholarship sparks a disagreement between Cory (10[1])and Troy (10[1])Maxson. (10[6])For 10 points, (10[2])Fences is in (10[2])what series of plays (10[1])by August Wilson, largely set (10[1])in a Pennsylvania city? (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Pittsburgh Cycle [accept American Century Cycle before “century”; accept the August Wilson Century Cycle before “Wilson”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Angela SunSolonGreat Valley5920
Ali HamzehKinkaidSt. Mark's5920
Ryan ZhangThomas Jefferson AInnovation Academy A5920
Omkar MaratheWilliam FremdDuPage County AT6020
Hazel DePreist-SullivanHastingsHoover A6020
Brodie HenryWest PointThomas Jefferson B6320
Kevin WangJohns Creek AThomas Jefferson D6320
Rachel EzrielevRichard Montgomery AGeorgetown Day6420
Aarushi KanigicherlaThomas Jefferson CWinston Churchill B6420
Carter PisockyMcLean BOkemos6510
Charles YoungBarringtonCanyon Crest6610
Michelle LuoJohns Creek BHeights6710
Camden WilliamsMexicoDetroit Catholic Central C6710
Soren GjesfjeldBloomingtonMaggie Walker C6910
Dominic ApapDetroit Catholic Central BCincinnati Hills6910
Kevin YangStevenson AChoate Rosemary Hall7510
Matias RoaWalter Payton ABeavercreek9210
Nick MurrayDetroit Catholic Central AMcLean A9810
Shaun IyerInnovation Academy BOwensboro10010
Tate OsborneAlabama Cyber TechChattahoochee10110
Ben NewmanUniversity LabLambert10110
Sophia WuLivingston ALivingston B10110
Ave RiegerNorthmont AWinston Churchill A10110
Nam DangRichard Montgomery BNorthmont B10110
Ryan SmithDowningtown STEMSeven Lakes10110
Ryan DaiCarbondaleHoover B10410
Michael RodriguezStrake JesuitMaggie Walker A10410
Bladen KiddMaggie Walker BFairfield County AT10710
Aidan ClarkSt. ThomasNorfolk Academic Guild10710
Thomas GlotfeltyJames W. RobinsonStevenson B11110
Allen XuDurham ATSaint Joseph11610
Evan SchleckHunter ABelmont12010
Connolly NugentWalter Payton BLindbergh12010
Amber ParkFreemanElkhorn North12110
Walker VargheseHunter BLightridge12110

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2024 PACE NSC06/08/2024Y35100%26%0%87.31