During a massacre in this city, Cardinal John was beheaded and his head dragged through the street by a dog. According to Robert of Clari, Philip of Swabia was inspired to lay siege to this city after receiving the son of a deposed monarch. After a siege that captured this city’s Blachernae (“bla-CAIR-nay”) neighborhood, Baldwin IX was crowned, beginning this city’s Frankokratia. The neighboring town of Galata was used to stage an invasion of this city by Boniface of Montferrat. The Empire of Trebizond was created after that sack, which was partly prompted by unpaid debts to Enrico Dandolo. The Latin Empire was established after a siege of this city that included the landing of soldiers on this city’s Golden Horn. For 10 points, the Fourth Crusade sacked what capital of the Byzantine Empire? ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 91.36 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 107.90 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 107.67 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 92.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 31% | 99.69 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 104.88 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 96.38 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 88.91 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Guelph A | 52 | 10 |
| Truman Hill | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 55 | 10 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | Maryland C | 56 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Missouri A | 56 | -5 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech B | 56 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster C | 57 | -5 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 57 | -5 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU B | 57 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU D | 57 | -5 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Manchester B | 57 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn B | 58 | -5 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Washington A | 58 | -5 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Carleton | 59 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 59 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brown B | 59 | -5 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Imperial A | 59 | -5 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Toronto I | 60 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto D | 60 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 60 | -5 |
| Raifton Bartling | Johns Hopkins C | UMBC A | 60 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 60 | -5 |
| Ishan Ramesh | Illinois C | Louisville A | 60 | -5 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Kentucky | 60 | -5 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Bristol B | 61 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown C | 62 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Tufts B | 62 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 62 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Penn A | 63 | 10 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | Toronto G | 65 | -5 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Indiana A | 65 | 10 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard | Brown A | 65 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 65 | 10 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 65 | -5 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester A | Oxford A | 65 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Warwick B | 65 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 67 | -5 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto B | 69 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Cornell-UG | 69 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McGill B | 71 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 71 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Sheffield B | 71 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Indiana B | 73 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 73 | 10 |
| Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov | Brandeis Orlando | Brandeis Wilson | 74 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | McGill D | 74 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Illinois A | 76 | -5 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Purdue B | 84 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Catholic University | 85 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | Texas A | 85 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Bruin A | 86 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Amherst A | 87 | 10 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial C | Durham B | 87 | 10 |
| David Thomas | Purdue C | Notre Dame B | 90 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Notre Dame D | 90 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Auburn B | 90 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 92 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 93 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Michigan D | 94 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Alabama A | 95 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster A | 97 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT B | 97 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | George Mason B | 100 | 10 |
| Blake Johnson | BC A | Yale B | 100 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State B | 100 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD B | 100 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Cambridge D | 100 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | LSE B | 100 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan C | 102 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 104 | -5 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Yale A | 105 | 10 |
| Hassan Elshayeb | Waterloo | Guelph B | 109 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 119 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Johns Hopkins B | 119 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | UCO | 119 | 10 |
| Ethan Buermann | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Eddon | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 119 | 10 |
| Elijah Pollock | UTD A | Iowa | 122 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Georgetown A | 124 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 124 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Warwick A | 126 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Queen's B | 128 | 10 |
| Orion Brey | Louisville A | Illinois C | 131 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | UAB A | 131 | 10 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh A | LSE A | 131 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | Louisville B | 132 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto F | 133 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Ottawa | 133 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 133 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Queen's A | 133 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 133 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Georgetown B | 133 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 133 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | NYU B | 133 | 10 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | William Woods | 133 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | SIUE | 133 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Bowdoin B | 133 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Ohio | 133 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Rose State | 133 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt B | 133 | 10 |
| Charlie Castleton | Sheffield C | Southampton A | 133 | 10 |