This leader received the “Letter of three hundred” from scientists decrying a decline in biology research. This leader had Machine-Tractor Stations rapidly closed and forced farmers to buy the leftover equipment. A visit to the Iowa farm of Roswell Garst inspired this leader to grow new hybridized corn breeds in his country, which largely failed due to climate differences with the US. This leader recruited Komsomol volunteers to move to new farms in the Virgin Lands program. At the 20th Congress, this leader gave a speech titled “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences” that denounced his predecessor and signaled the beginning of a relaxation of censorship called this leader’s “Thaw.” For 10 points, what Soviet leader gave the “Secret Speech” and succeeded Joseph Stalin? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 110.00 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.33 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 56.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60.17 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 66.17 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 100% | 86.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 61.80 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 42.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 69.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 84.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 57.00 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 91.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas A | 15 | -5 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Brandeis A | 21 | -5 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Florida A | 22 | 10 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Winona State | 34 | -5 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | Haverford A | 35 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 35 | -5 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard A | Harvard B | 38 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | UW B | UW A | 38 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley A | 39 | -5 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 39 | -5 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 39 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 39 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Kenyon | 39 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Michigan C | 39 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Brown A | 40 | -5 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Michigan A | 40 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC B | Liberty C | 40 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Missoui S&T | 40 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 41 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | William & Mary | 41 | 10 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 42 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Virginia Tech A | 42 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago D | 45 | -5 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin A | 46 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Dartmouth A | 46 | 10 |
| Ben Sterling | Yale A | Maryland A | 46 | 10 |
| Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Michigan D | 46 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Claremont B | UCSD | 47 | -5 |
| John Chen | UBC | Alberta | 47 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | WashU B | 47 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 48 | -5 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin B | 48 | -5 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | BU | 48 | 10 |
| Grant Avis | Louisville A | Georgia Tech A | 48 | 10 |
| Adam Monusko | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 48 | 10 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Chicago B | 48 | 10 |
| Aidan Roullet | RIT A | RIT B | 50 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 51 | 10 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | NYU B | 51 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Liberty A | 51 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 52 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Cornell B | 57 | 10 |
| Tony Liang | TAMU | Texas B | 58 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Chicago C | 61 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 76 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Duke | 76 | 10 |
| Claire Jones | Chicago A | Illinois C | 76 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | ASU | 80 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA | UC Berkeley B | 83 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Columbia C | 91 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | ESF A | 97 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | George Washington A | 98 | 10 |
| Adam Pascoe | Wake Forest | Liberty B | 111 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 121 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago D | WashU A | 125 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 126 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF B | 126 | 10 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF C | 126 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 126 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Carleton | 126 | 0 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | MIT A | 126 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 126 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 126 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | Cornell C | 126 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | Case Western B | Ohio State A | 126 | 10 |