Manhattan’s street grid - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 8: Bonus 9

Gerard Koeppel argued that a three-man team who produced this system slacked off for three years then mostly copied an earlier proposal made by Casimir Goerck. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this system created by the Commissioner’s Plan of 1811, which claimed it “appeared to be the best” in a terse explanation. John Randel Jr. produced detailed documents outlining this system.

ANSWER: Manhattan’s street grid [accept answers involving the roads or streets of Manhattan; prompt on answers involving the New York City street grid by asking “which part of the city?”]

[10e] Manhattan’s planners opted for a grid instead of the radial streets of the L’Enfant Plan of this US city.

ANSWER: Washington, D.C. [or D.C. or the District of Columbia]

[10m] A Founding Father with this surname helped write the Commissioner’s Plan and served as chair of the Erie Canal Commission after writing the preamble to the constitution. A financier with this surname went broke in a D.C. land scheme that caused the Panic of 1796.

ANSWER: Morris [accept Gouverneur Morris or Robert Morris]

<EC, American History> | NAFTA-Packet-8

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
38	16.84	95%	53%	21%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	10	30	HEM
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	10	0	20	HE
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC B	0	10	10	20	EM
BHSU	Execute Order 6 7	10	10	10	30	HEM
Berkeley A	Stanford B	0	10	10	20	EM
Berkeley B	Team 7	0	10	0	10	E
C R A B S	Dour Straits	0	10	10	20	EM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	0	10	10	20	EM
Contessa Dora	Catholic University A	0	10	0	10	E
Copán Seethe	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	10	10	0	20	HE
David Foster Gromit	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	0	10	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	10	10	20	EM
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10	E
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Chicago !A	0	10	0	10	E
Indiana	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	10	10	30	HEM
Invective Against Swans	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	0	10	0	10	E
JHU	Mike and Psmith	0	10	0	10	E
Lex	WashU	0	10	10	20	EM
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	0	10	10	20	EM
Maybe Ever	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	0	10	10	20	EM
NYU A	Untitled Keyal Team	0	10	10	20	EM
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	The "C" Team	0	0	0	0
No Country for Old Quizzers	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	10	10	0	20	HE
Noah Sheidlower	Habitat 67	10	10	10	30	HEM
Northwestern	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	0	10	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Team 8	0	10	0	10	E
Penn State	Rosslyn Academic Team	0	10	10	20	EM
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	Shipping Down from Ballston	0	10	0	10	E
Stanford A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	0	10	10	20	EM
The Fire Neg Time	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	10	10	10	30	HEM
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	0	10	0	10	E
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	0	10	10	20	EM
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC A	0	10	0	10	E
UNC Charity	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	0	10	0	10	E
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	0	10	10	20	EM
Vacuous Tortoise	Dielectrical Materialism	0	0	0	0
W&L+Friend	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	0	10	0	10	E
[Redacted]	St. Marx	0	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	15.00	75%	25%	50%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%