During this battle, a defeated rear admiral said “let us enjoy the beauty of the moon” while going down with his ship. The Chicago Tribune was almost prosecuted under the Espionage Act for Stanley Johnston’s report on this battle, where the Thach Weave debuted with prior help of “Butch” O’Hare. This battle’s location was deciphered from “AF” through breaking the JN-25 code. The losing side of this battle had also attacked the Aleutian Islands as a diversion. In this battle, bombers attacked the Akagi and Kaga as they rearmed planes for a second strike. All four Japanese carriers in this battle were sunk in exchange for the loss of the USS Yorktown. For 10 points, what battle considered a turning point in the Pacific Theater was a June 1942 victory for US forces? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 58.67 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 20% | 84.89 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 83.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.57 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.90 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.73 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.40 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 55.40 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 55.83 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.50 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 27% | 89.73 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 90.25 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 61.25 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 58.75 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.60 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 73.54 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Louisville B | 18 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto G | 21 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 21 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Notre Dame D | 21 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Washington A | 29 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | UMBC A | 30 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Purdue A | 31 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell-DII | Binghamton B | 34 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhao | Maryland C | VCU A | 38 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Stanford B | 43 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Virginia A | 46 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Georgia Tech C | 46 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Maryland A | 48 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Georgetown B | 49 | 10 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins B | 49 | 10 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick A | Oxford B | 49 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 50 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | UCSC | 52 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | City St George's A | 52 | 10 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | OSU B | 53 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Alberta | 54 | -5 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 55 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | UCLA C | 56 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 56 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU C | 56 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Michigan A | 56 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | MIT A | 56 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | British Columbia B | 56 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | British Columbia A | 56 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Auburn B | 56 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Sewanee A | 56 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth | Williams | 57 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Guelph A | 58 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | Truman State | 58 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Indiana A | 58 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Vanderbilt A | 58 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 59 | 10 |
| Brigham Blundell | ESF | RIT B | 59 | 10 |
| Adrian Li | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 60 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | USC | 60 | 10 |
| Scott Sibley | UCI | UCLA A | 60 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto I | 60 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | UF B | 60 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt A | 60 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 60 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Columbia B | 60 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | William Woods | 60 | 10 |
| Orion Brey | Louisville A | Michigan C | 60 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Brown C | 60 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Tufts B | 60 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell-UG | Yale A | 60 | -5 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | McMaster C | 61 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto Metropolitan | 61 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | OSU D | 61 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Columbia A | 61 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | WashU B | 61 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Chicago A | 61 | -5 |
| Aiden Hart | Kentucky | Chicago C | 61 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 61 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Southampton B | 61 | -5 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 61 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | UIC | 62 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Vassar A | 63 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto A | 64 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | Claremont Pitzer | 67 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 67 | 10 |
| Christophe Savoie | UF C | FIU | 68 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | Berkeley E | 72 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | Melbourne A | 73 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Clemson A | 73 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 73 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Chicago D | 73 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota A | 73 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Mississippi State A | 73 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | UAB A | 73 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Cambridge B | 73 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | McGill C | 76 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Queen's A | 76 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina B | North Carolina C | 76 | 10 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | Notre Dame E | 76 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Iowa State | 76 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Bowdoin B | 76 | -5 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | MIT B | 76 | 10 |
| Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov | Brandeis Orlando | BC A | 76 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Amherst B | 78 | -5 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | McMaster B | 79 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | USF | 79 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | George Mason A | 79 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 79 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Brown A | 81 | 10 |
| Aidan Roullet | RIT A | Syracuse | 81 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | OSU C | 82 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Guelph B | 83 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | McMaster A | 83 | 10 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | Roanoke | 83 | 10 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Bristol B | 83 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | FSU | 84 | -5 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | UCF A | 85 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Tusculum | 85 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers C | 85 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Imperial C | 85 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | George Mason B | 87 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins C | 87 | 10 |
| Jonathan Li | Penn B | George Mason C | 88 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Durham B | 88 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Indiana B | 89 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | MSU B | 92 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | James Madison | 93 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | South Carolina B | 94 | 10 |
| Charlie Castleton | Sheffield C | Oxford A | 100 | 10 |
| Hassan Elshayeb | Waterloo | Queen's B | 101 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Toronto B | 104 | -5 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | Kenyon A | 104 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | Kenyon B | 105 | 10 |
| Elliot Earley | Sheffield A | Cambridge D | 105 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Simon Fraser | 116 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Michigan B | 120 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Brandeis Wilson | 122 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Toronto D | 133 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF E | 133 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia C | 133 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Tufts A | 133 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown B | 133 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Cornell-UG | 133 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Washington B | 133 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Durham A | 133 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | LSE A | 133 | 0 |