This man sent a carefully worded letter apologizing for his soldiers’ haste in proclaiming him ruler while he governed Syria. This ruler supposedly dictated a poem addressed to a “little drifter” from his deathbed. This ruler commissioned a poem from Pancrates about his hunt of the Marousian lion, which was also depicted on the Arch of Constantine. Rebels against this ruler took shelter in caves after his forces captured Betar. This ruler rebuilt a destroyed city as Aelia Capitolina, which may have helped spark the Bar Kokhba revolt. This ruler’s villa at Tivoli held a statue of his deified lover Antinous. This emperor ordered the construction of a 73-mile fortification to defend against attacks by the Picts. For 10 points, name this successor of Trajan, a Roman emperor who built a namesake wall in Britannia. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.00 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.75 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 135.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 120.67 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 106.60 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 44% | 114.67 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 105.38 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 87.40 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 105.75 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 117.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 110.29 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 101.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 63% | 112.13 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 108.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Nyang | LSE | UCL | 33 | -5 |
| James McCurley | Harvard A | Brown | 51 | 10 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Maryland C | 55 | -5 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 62 | -5 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | Arizona State | 69 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Bristol | 72 | -5 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Manchester | 75 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland A | 75 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 77 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 77 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 78 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 78 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UC Santa Barbara | 78 | -5 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Central Florida A | 78 | -5 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Northwestern D | 78 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Dartmouth A | 78 | -5 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | RIT | 78 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Kentucky | 78 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 78 | 10 |
| Mehmet Tatoglu | Oxford A | Imperial A | 78 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | CWRU B | 79 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Maryland B | 79 | -5 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Imperial C | 80 | 10 |
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UCSD C | 81 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | Berkeley B | 82 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame A | 83 | -5 |
| Jesse Mindel | NC State A | Virginia Tech A | 83 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | NYU C | 84 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Vassar | 84 | -5 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Dartmouth B | 86 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Indiana B | 87 | -5 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Cornell C | 87 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William and Mary | James Madison B | 87 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont | Minnesota A | 87 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Rutgers B | 87 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia C | Swarthmore | 87 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Notre Dame B | 88 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana C | 91 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Missouri B | 91 | 10 |
| Randy Guo | Texas B | Texas A | 92 | -5 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Johns Hopkins B | 92 | -5 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech C | 95 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 97 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois C | 99 | -5 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | CWRU A | 99 | 10 |
| Adam Iqbal | Durham | Edinburgh B | 99 | -5 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | UBC B | 100 | -5 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago E | 100 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 100 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Yale | Bowdoin A | 100 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Bowdoin B | 100 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Southern Connecticut State | 100 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 100 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | James Madison A | 100 | -5 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Iowa State | 100 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | Alabama A | 100 | -5 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 100 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Birmingham | 100 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | City St. George's | 100 | -5 |
| William Cowperthwait | NC State B | Liberty C | 100 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | LSE | 100 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Oxford C | 100 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Wake Forest | 101 | 10 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD A | 103 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | North Carolina B | 103 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 103 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 108 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pittsburgh | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Central Florida C | 109 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Cambridge B | 109 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Imperial B | 109 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 113 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | NC State A | 113 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | North Carolina C | 113 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | Duke | 113 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Southampton B | 115 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Indiana A | 116 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 116 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 116 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech D | Mississipi State | 116 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee | 116 | 10 |
| Alexander Nicholas | Central Florida A | Florida A | 119 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | North Carolina A | 119 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic | 119 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 122 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | NYU B | 127 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT | Cornell A | 131 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | Ohio State C | Michigan B | 131 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Durham | 133 | 10 |
| Adrian Zhou | NYU C | John Jay | 133 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland C | Columbia A | 134 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC B | Brock | 135 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | Central Florida C | Florida B | 135 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Purdue A | 135 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue B | 135 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | William and Mary | 135 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison A | Liberty A | 135 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Claremont | 135 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU B | 135 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cambridge C | 135 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Columbia B | 135 | 10 |