A publishing house for this author’s work was co-founded by Donald Wandrei and August Derleth, whose falling out is discussed in a study of this author subtitled Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq (“well-BECK”). A genre whose “Big Three” consisted of this author, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith inspired M. John Harrison to theorize a modern genre exemplified by the work of Jeff VanderMeer and China Miéville. A story by this author is narrated by a professor who discovers amoeba-like “shoggoths” while on an expedition to Antarctica from Miskatonic University. In a story by this author, the sunken city R’lyeh (“rill-YEH”) imprisons a “Great Old One” that resembles a giant octopus. For 10 points, what author of At the Mountains of Madness created the Cthulhu Mythos? ■END■
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.20 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.57 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 101.78 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.40 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.17 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 72.33 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 71.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Warwick B | 15 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | NYU B | 15 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Cambridge A | 22 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Vassar | 25 | 10 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Edinburgh A | 34 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama B | 46 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Imperial A | 50 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Sewanee | 52 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin A | 54 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 59 | -5 |
| Florrie the Mononymous | Southampton A | LSE | 69 | -5 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois A | 79 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Mississipi State | 79 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis B | 82 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Georgetown | 82 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William and Mary | Virginia | 83 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Indiana A | 83 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 84 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Ohio State C | 87 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Northwestern B | 87 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | UCL | 87 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Montpellier | 87 | 10 |
| Joel Dicker | Southampton B | Imperial C | 87 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 89 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 89 | 10 |
| Riley Bruce | Tennessee B | WashU B | 89 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 91 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard B | 91 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 91 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | CWRU A | 92 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Purdue B | 92 | -5 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Catholic | 92 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Illinois B | 94 | 10 |
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | Cardiff | 95 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison A | Liberty B | 98 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Chicago B | 98 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Oxford C | 98 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins B | 98 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Bristol | 100 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | North Carolina B | 102 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Purdue A | 102 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth A | Brown | 102 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Louisville A | 102 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Edinburgh B | 102 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina C | South Carolina A | 103 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | CWRU B | 107 | 10 |
| William Edwards | Tennessee A | Louisville B | 107 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | Liberty A | 112 | 10 |
| Timothy Chiu | Northwestern D | Northwestern C | 112 | 10 |
| Fionn O'Connor | South Carolina B | Wake Forest | 115 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 116 | 10 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | James Madison B | 118 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago E | Indiana C | 127 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 128 | 10 |
| Jeremy Ryu | Bowdoin B | Dartmouth B | 128 | 0 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Bowdoin B | 128 | 10 |