During a storm, this character’s love interest organizes a party game in which guests count successive numbers quickly and get boxed in the ear for making a mistake. In a different novel, this character reintegrates into society after another character thwarts his plan by placing chicken blood in his guns. This character is the subject of a parody by Friedrich Nicolai, and a novel about him inspired a novel subtitled The Beloved Returns by Thomas Mann. This character reads his translation of Ossian to a character who mentions the poet Klopstock while looking at the sky. This character is buried under two linden trees after committing suicide due to his unrequited love for Charlotte. For 10 points, name this character whose “Sorrows” title an epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 117.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 8% | 95.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 118.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 94.29 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 7 | 43% | 0% | 57% | 88.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.00 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.75 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 91.92 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 85.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.25 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 20% | 87.78 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 109.83 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto F | 14 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | MSU A | 27 | -5 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue A | 27 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 28 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 31 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 31 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Brandeis Wilson | 31 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BC A | 47 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 49 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 49 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana A | 49 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Maryland A | 57 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | Pitt C | 60 | 10 |
| Rishi Swaminathan | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 60 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | British Columbia D | 63 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Missouri B | 69 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 72 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto I | 75 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 75 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 75 | -5 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 75 | -5 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 79 | -5 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Yale B | 79 | -5 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 80 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 82 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Guelph A | 82 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU B | 82 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 82 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | BC B | 82 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Tufts A | 82 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 84 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia C | 84 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 85 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 85 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Kentucky | 85 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 86 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto C | 87 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason A | 87 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 90 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Illinois B | 90 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 90 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 90 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Chicago A | 91 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 92 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Brandeis Lloyd George | 92 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | UIC | 95 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 95 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland D | 97 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | CWRU A | 103 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 103 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 103 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 104 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Washington A | 104 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | BU | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia B | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Manchester B | 104 | -5 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Stanford B | 105 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | USC | 105 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Penn A | 106 | -5 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | WashU D | 106 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 106 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCI | 108 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Waterloo | 109 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | ESF | 109 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | USF | 110 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | ERAU B | 110 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 111 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Queen's A | 111 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 111 | -5 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Louisville B | 111 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western Ontario | 113 | 10 |
| Eve Maramba | UF A | FIU | 113 | -5 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 113 | 10 |
| Vivian Adolph | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 113 | -5 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Penn B | 113 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Mason C | 113 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | ERAU A | 116 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 117 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | McGill A | 119 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Truman State | 119 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto E | 121 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 122 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 122 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 123 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto J | 124 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | UF E | 124 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | Melbourne B | 124 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 124 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF A | 126 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Chicago D | 127 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA D | 128 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph B | 131 | 0 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | OSU C | 131 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | South Carolina A | 131 | 0 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Tennessee A | 131 | 0 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins A | 131 | 0 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Maryland C | 131 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Tufts B | 131 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale B | Dartmouth | 131 | 0 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Edinburgh B | 131 | 0 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol A | 131 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Cornell-DII | 131 | 0 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Binghamton B | 131 | 0 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | RIT A | 131 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Rochester | 131 | 0 |