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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McGill B | 11 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 11 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto I | 12 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 15 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 15 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 19 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas B | 22 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McGill C | 28 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 28 | -5 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 53 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 59 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 59 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Arizona State A | 63 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 63 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 73 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech C | 89 | 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 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Sheffield A | 97 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill 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 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Manchester A | 100 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 100 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Chicago D | 100 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | LSE A | 133 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 133 | 10 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 135 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster C | 136 | 0 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto C | 136 | 10 |
| Shaynee Ruffle | Toronto I | Toronto B | 136 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 136 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 136 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 136 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Toronto F | 136 | 0 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph B | 136 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Ohio | 136 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Tulsa | 136 | 10 |
| 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 |