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 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 77 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 77 | -5 |
| 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 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Northwestern D | 78 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Central Florida A | 78 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 78 | 10 |
| Mehmet Tatoglu | Oxford A | Imperial A | 78 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Dartmouth A | 78 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Kentucky | 78 | 10 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | RIT | 78 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jesse Mindel | NC State A | Virginia Tech A | 83 | -5 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame 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 |
| Meredie Cohen | William and Mary | James Madison B | 87 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Rutgers B | 87 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia C | Swarthmore | 87 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Indiana B | 87 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont | Minnesota A | 87 | -5 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Cornell C | 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 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Johns Hopkins B | 92 | -5 |
| Randy Guo | Texas B | Texas A | 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 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | James Madison A | 100 | -5 |
| William Cowperthwait | NC State B | Liberty C | 100 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago E | 100 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | LSE | 100 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Oxford C | 100 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | UBC B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Iowa State | 100 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | Alabama A | 100 | -5 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 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 |
| Elise Economou | Pittsburgh | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 113 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Southampton B | 115 | 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 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Indiana A | 116 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 116 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | North Carolina A | 119 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic | 119 | 10 |
| Alexander Nicholas | Central Florida A | Florida A | 119 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 122 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | NYU B | 127 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | Ohio State C | Michigan B | 131 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT | Cornell A | 131 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 10 |
| Adrian Zhou | NYU C | John Jay | 133 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Durham | 133 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland C | Columbia A | 134 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | William and Mary | 135 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison A | Liberty A | 135 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Purdue A | 135 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Columbia B | 135 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC B | Brock | 135 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | Central Florida C | Florida B | 135 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cambridge C | 135 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue B | 135 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Claremont | 135 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU B | 135 | 10 |