This author maligned social classes like the aristocratic “Barbarians” and middle-class “Philistines” for embracing sentimental “bathos.” This author was inspired by a fable contrasting the spider with the bee in Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of the Books to write that a concept which partially titles one book should be defined by “sweetness and light.” This author defined the first title concept as “the best which has been thought and said” in Culture and Anarchy. This author included the poem “To Marguerite – Continued” with the dramatic poem Empedocles on Etna. A poem by this author begins, “The sea is calm tonight” and declares “Ah, love, let us be true / To one another!” For 10 points, name this critic and poet who wrote about a “darkling plain… where ignorant armies clash by night” in “Dover Beach.” ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.50 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 106.83 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 93.56 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 102.00 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 136.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 105.70 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 0% | 122.00 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 36.67 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 97.57 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.50 |
| UK | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 33% | 107.86 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 11 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McGill B | 11 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto I | 12 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 15 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 15 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 19 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas B | 22 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 28 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McGill C | 28 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 53 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 59 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 59 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Arizona State A | 63 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 63 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | USC | 73 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | McGill D | 73 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford A | 73 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 73 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Indiana A | 75 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 78 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Carleton | 80 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Southampton B | 80 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA D | 83 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 84 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto K | 87 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 89 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago C | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Louisville B | 89 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech C | 89 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Sheffield A | 97 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 100 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill A | 100 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Chicago D | 100 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Manchester A | 100 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Alabama B | 100 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 100 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 100 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 101 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 101 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UCF A | 102 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Alberta B | 103 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue B | 104 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Minnesota A | 104 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 112 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 120 | -5 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Carleton | 126 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | FIU | 127 | -5 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | McMaster B | 128 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCSB | 131 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Kentucky | 132 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 132 | -5 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 133 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | LSE A | 133 | 10 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 135 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 136 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Toronto F | 136 | 0 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph B | 136 | 0 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster C | 136 | 0 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto C | 136 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 136 | 0 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 136 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Wisconsin | 136 | 0 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Iowa State | 136 | 0 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 136 | 0 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia B | 136 | 0 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Missouri A | 136 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue C | 136 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 136 | 10 |
| David Latimer | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 136 | 0 |
| Annabelle Brett | Sheffield C | Imperial C | 136 | 0 |
| Shaynee Ruffle | Toronto I | Toronto B | 136 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 136 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 136 | 0 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Ohio | 136 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Tulsa | 136 | 10 |
| Elijah Pollock | UTD A | UTD B | 136 | 0 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 136 | 0 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Huntsville B | 136 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 136 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | Cambridge C | 136 | 0 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | City St George's A | 136 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 136 | 10 |