Raiders in this state fought both Union and Confederate forces during the Cortina Wars. During the Battle of Gaines’ Mill, every officer in a “Brigade” named for this state was injured or killed except for its leader, John Bell Hood. A month after Appomattox, men in this state fought the last battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Palmito Hill. The Nueces (“new-AY-siss”) Massacre targeted antislavery Unionist Germans in this state. Benjamin Franklin Tarry led a regiment nicknamed for a law enforcement group in this state that fought against the Comanche. Gordon Granger’s announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in a coastal city in this state is commemorated on Juneteenth. For 10 points, name this state whose police force includes its namesake “Rangers.” ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 100% | 122.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 92% | 0% | 23% | 92.92 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.13 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 107.50 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 70.83 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 90.60 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 86.63 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 75.13 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 87.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCLA D | 39 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Sheffield A | 39 | -5 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | USC | 42 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Vanderbilt A | 42 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Alberta B | 43 | 10 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Columbia B | 48 | -5 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Alabama A | 50 | 10 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | UCLA A | Claremont Pitzer | 51 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Carleton | 52 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Sewanee A | 54 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 55 | -5 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto I | McMaster C | 55 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 55 | -5 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | Columbia C | 55 | -5 |
| Thomas Catuosco | Rutgers B | Princeton A | 55 | -5 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Tulsa | 55 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 55 | -5 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 55 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Louisville A | 56 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | NC State | 60 | 10 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Notre Dame D | 60 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Michigan B | 60 | -5 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | McGill A | 62 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia Tech B | 62 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Macalester A | 62 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Guelph A | 63 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan D | 63 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Kentucky | 63 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 63 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia A | Rowan A | 64 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Arizona State A | 64 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech A | 64 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | Claremont Scripps | 65 | 10 |
| Larry Sun | McGill C | Queen's A | 65 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Northwestern A | 66 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Toronto H | 70 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame C | 70 | -5 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty C | 71 | 10 |
| Virginia Brooks | Minnesota C | Wisconsin | 73 | -5 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 76 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Nebraska | 85 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Notre Dame B | 88 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | North Carolina B | 90 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina C | 92 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | UTD B | 92 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | Clemson B | 93 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto C | 96 | 10 |
| Truman Hill | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 96 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Liberty B | 97 | 10 |
| Ishan Ramesh | Illinois C | Chicago D | 97 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | McGill D | 97 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Alabama B | 97 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto F | 104 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Chicago C | 104 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Rose State | 104 | 10 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | UCI | 106 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McMaster A | 106 | -5 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge D | Oxford B | 106 | -5 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Virginia B | 108 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 108 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Minnesota B | 108 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Purdue C | 109 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Durham A | 111 | -5 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | UCO | 114 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 122 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Guelph B | 122 | 10 |
| Owen Riviere | Western Ontario | Queen's B | 122 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Toronto B | 122 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto D | 122 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Waterloo | 122 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 122 | 0 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 122 | 0 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 122 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 122 | 10 |
| Carter McLean | Princeton A | Rutgers B | 122 | 10 |
| Andrew Wu | Columbia C | Vassar A | 122 | 0 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Illinois A | 122 | 10 |
| Ben Stras | Wisconsin | Minnesota C | 122 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Iowa | 122 | 0 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Ohio | 122 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 122 | 10 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 122 | 0 |
| Adam Iqbal | Durham A | Warwick A | 122 | 10 |
| Elliot Earley | Sheffield A | Southampton B | 122 | 10 |