running - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 1: Bonus 12

In a short story titled for this action, the title character arrives just in time to prevent his friend Selinuntius’ execution by the tyrant Dionysius. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this title action that Melos is told to perform in that story. A Haruki Murakami memoir about this action is titled in reference to a Raymond Carver story.

ANSWER: running [accept “Run, Melos!” or “Hashire Merosu!”; accept What I Talk About When I Talk About Running or Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto]

[10m] This author of “Run, Melos!” wrote about the aristocratic siblings Naoji and Kazuko in The Setting Sun. This author’s best known novel follows Oba, whose failed attempt at double suicide by drowning mirrors his own life.

ANSWER: Osamu Dazai [or Shuji Tsushima] (The novel is No Longer Human.)

[10h] Ryu Murakami’s collection Run! Takahashi focuses on a character with this profession. Haruki Murakami admired the “deeply thoughtful” and “cerebral” butt of a person with this profession named Shane.

ANSWER: baseball player [accept outfielder or shortstop; prompt on professional athlete] (The Haruki Murakami poem is “Outfielders’ Butts” from the story “Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection.”)

<TC, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-1

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
41	17.07	90%	56%	24%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Invective Against Swans	10	10	10	30	EMH
1000000 Delinquents	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	10	10	10	30	EMH
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	0	0	0
BHSU	Chicago !A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Berkeley A	Not Old! (Old)	10	10	0	20	EM
Berkeley B	Team 7	10	10	0	20	EM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	10	0	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Stanford B	10	10	0	20	EM
Contessa Dora	JHU	10	0	0	10	E
Dielectrical Materialism	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	10	10	0	20	EM
Execute Order 6 7	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	10	0	20	EM
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	10	0	20	EM
Guelph Cloze	You Don't Have the Cards	10	0	0	10	E
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	No Country for Old Quizzers	10	0	0	10	E
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	0	10	E
Indiana	Northwestern	10	0	0	10	E
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	David Foster Gromit	10	0	0	10	E
Lex	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	10	10	0	20	EM
Licence to Bill	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	10	0	0	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	10	10	0	20	EM
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Mike and Psmith	10	10	0	20	EM
Maybe Ever	[Redacted]	10	10	0	20	EM
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	The Fire Neg Time	0	10	0	10	M
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	10	10	30	EMH
NYU A	Noah Sheidlower	10	0	0	10	E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	The "C" Team	10	0	0	10	E
Penn State	Catholic University A	10	10	0	20	EM
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	Copán Seethe	0	0	0	0
Rosslyn Academic Team	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	10	10	10	30	EMH
Shipping Down from Ballston	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	10	0	20	EM
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	Habitat 67	10	0	0	10	E
St. Marx	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	0	10	20	EH
Stanford A	Team 8	10	0	0	10	E
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	10	0	10	20	EH
The Imgur Link	UNC Charity	10	10	10	30	EMH
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20	EM
UBC A	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	10	0	0	10	E
UBC B	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	0	0	0	0
Untitled Keyal Team	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	10	10	30	EMH
Vacuous Tortoise	Dour Straits	10	10	10	30	EMH
WashU	W&L+Friend	10	0	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	25.00	100%	83%	67%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%