In this state, Tina Bell fronted Bam Bam, the first band to record at Reciprocal Recording. The all-female opening night of a music festival in this state saw the live debut of Heavens to Betsy, whose split led Corin Tucker to form Sleater-Kinney. A band from this state spent over 5 years on Billboard with their album Ten, which contains a song claiming “thoughts arrive like butterflies.” This state’s “riot grrl” movement included acts like Bikini Kill, whose frontwoman Kathleen Hanna inspired a hit by another band from this state by claiming its lead singer smelled like a deodorant brand. Krist Novoselic was the bassist of a band from this state who included songs like “Lithium” and “Come As You Are” on their album Nevermind. For 10 points, grunge bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana formed in what US state’s city of Seattle? ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 81.11 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.33 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 86.92 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 112.33 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 76.80 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 88.25 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.88 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 85.75 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 115.70 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Toronto H | 15 | -5 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Queen's B | 17 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 30 | -5 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia D | 41 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley E | 42 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford A | 42 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Cambridge B | 42 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 45 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 46 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | 47 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 47 | -5 |
| Elishiya Crain-Keddie | USC | UCLA B | 48 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Carleton | 48 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 49 | -5 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Durham A | 49 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Guelph A | 57 | 10 |
| Owen Riviere | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 57 | -5 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Bruin A | 57 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 57 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Durham B | 58 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Purdue A | 59 | 10 |
| Brodie Henry | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 59 | 10 |
| Charlie Castleton | Sheffield C | Imperial C | 59 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCLA C | 61 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa | Toronto K | 61 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Waterloo | 62 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Chicago C | 62 | 10 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Alberta B | 62 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt B | 62 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | UCF B | 63 | -5 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto I | Toronto B | 66 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 66 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Northwestern A | 66 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | McGill D | 71 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Southampton B | 71 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 72 | -5 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Wisconsin | 72 | 10 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | Toronto D | 74 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | FIU | 74 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 74 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 76 | 10 |
| Mohammad Khan | UTD A | UTD B | 78 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 78 | -5 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | LSE A | 80 | -5 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 95 | 10 |
| James Norris | Huntsville B | Huntsville A | 97 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | McGill C | 98 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA D | 99 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | Cambridge C | 99 | -5 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Missouri A | 100 | 10 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 101 | 10 |
| John Hrom | Alabama B | UAB A | 101 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia B | 103 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Louisville A | 104 | 10 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Toronto F | 107 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 110 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto C | 112 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 115 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 120 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | UF E | 120 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Carleton | 122 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Purdue C | 123 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | Tulsa | 123 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 124 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Louisville B | 124 | -5 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Illinois C | 124 | -5 |
| Laura Bullock | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 124 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 126 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 127 | 10 |
| Jackson Hatcher | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 132 | -5 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | Claremont Pitzer | 135 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 141 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Michigan A | 142 | 10 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Imperial B | 142 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill A | 143 | 10 |
| Christopher Jenkins | UCF B | UCF A | 143 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Indiana A | 143 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 143 | 10 |
| Ishan Ramesh | Illinois C | Purdue B | 143 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 143 | 10 |
| Virginia Brooks | Minnesota C | Nebraska | 143 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 143 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Alabama A | 143 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 143 | 10 |