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■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 33% | 107.86 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 106.83 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 93.56 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 102.00 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 136.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.50 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 0% | 122.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 36.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 97.57 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.50 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 105.70 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McGill C | 28 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 28 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 63 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Arizona State A | 63 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | USC | 73 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | McGill D | 73 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Alabama B | 100 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 100 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Manchester A | 100 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 100 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 101 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 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 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph B | 136 | 0 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Toronto F | 136 | 0 |
| 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 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Missouri A | 136 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 136 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue C | 136 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Iowa State | 136 | 0 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 136 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 136 | 0 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Wisconsin | 136 | 0 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia B | 136 | 0 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 136 | 0 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Tulsa | 136 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Ohio | 136 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 136 | 0 |
| Elijah Pollock | UTD A | UTD B | 136 | 0 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Huntsville B | 136 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 136 | 10 |
| Annabelle Brett | Sheffield C | Imperial C | 136 | 0 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | Cambridge C | 136 | 0 |
| David Latimer | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 136 | 0 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 136 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | City St George's A | 136 | 10 |