Veteran “Tigers” named for being from this region were displaced after a non-Indian “Operation Grand Slam” and became mercenaries for the MPLA and AFDL. In 1990, a shadow group called “the owls” hacked 300 student protestors into pieces in a university named for this region’s capital. British colonel William Stairs was called a traitor for claiming this region’s Yeke Kingdom and assassinating its leader, Msiri, on behalf of a colonial rival. This region’s colonial UMHK company evolved into the national company Gécamines (“jay-kah-MEEN”). This region, once renamed Shaba, contains the Shinkolobwe Mine that supplied the Manhattan Project’s uranium and the Kamoto Mine that is the largest cobalt mine today. For 10 points, Mïse Tshombe led a secession movement from what copper-producing region during the Congo Crisis? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 103.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 98.33 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 67% | 0% | 50% | 109.13 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 100% | 125.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 108.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 112.75 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 50% | 0% | 38% | 115.25 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 58% | 0% | 67% | 109.57 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 79.43 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 120.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | NYU B | 23 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | NYU A | Vassar | 45 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | Warwick A | 47 | -5 |
| Katie Farthing | Vanderbilt B | Tennessee B | 58 | -5 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Waterloo A | 59 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 61 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Indiana B | 63 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Imperial A | 64 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 70 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Cambridge A | 75 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 80 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Manchester | 81 | -5 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | UBC A | 86 | -5 |
| Adil Haider | McMaster A | Ottawa | 86 | -5 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 87 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Columbia B | 88 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Chicago A | 89 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Rutgers B | 90 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCLA A | 92 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Central Florida C | 92 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | UBC B | 92 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Maryland A | 95 | -5 |
| Mari Montoya | Waterloo B | Toronto E | 96 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 96 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell A | 96 | -5 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Simon Fraser | 96 | -5 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | McGill A | 96 | -5 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UC Santa Barbara | 98 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Northwestern D | 98 | -5 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Imperial C | 99 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Michigan C | 99 | -5 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 99 | -5 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Minnesota A | 99 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 100 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 100 | -5 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Washington B | 100 | -5 |
| Dwight Solano | Texas A&M A | Murray State A | 100 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | Michigan State | 102 | -5 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton College | Washington A | 102 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | Arizona State | 105 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 105 | -5 |
| Tom Morris-Jones | Birmingham | Durham | 106 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 107 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 107 | -5 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago E | Purdue B | 107 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | McGill B | 107 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Edinburgh B | 107 | -5 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | City St. George's | 110 | -5 |
| Matthew Stasiw | Toronto C | Western C | 111 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida B | 111 | 10 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE | Imperial B | 111 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 112 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Kentucky | 112 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama A | 112 | -5 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago D | 114 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto F | Western B | 115 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | Southampton A | 115 | -5 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Indiana C | 116 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell B | 116 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech D | Louisville B | 117 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 118 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Texas A | 119 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge B | 123 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Oxford A | 124 | 0 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Swarthmore | 124 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | McMaster B | 125 | 0 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 125 | 0 |
| John Chen | UBC A | Queen's | 125 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto D | Western A | 125 | 0 |
| David Vellojin | Western A | Toronto D | 125 | 0 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Toronto C | 125 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | WashU B | 125 | 0 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | Alabama B | 125 | 0 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Bruin | 125 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Bristol | 125 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cardiff | 125 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Oxford C | 125 | 0 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Oxford B | 125 | 0 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | UCL | 125 | 0 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | UC Irvine | 125 | 0 |
| Jadon Pandian | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 125 | 0 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | CWRU A | 125 | 10 |
| Tobias Zajac | Michigan State | CWRU B | 125 | 0 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 125 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 125 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 125 | 10 |
| John Augustyn | Notre Dame B | Illinois B | 125 | 10 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern D | Illinois A | 125 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 125 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 125 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | RIT | 125 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Brock | 125 | 0 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Carleton University | 125 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | McMaster A | 125 | 10 |
| Alice Ton Nu | Washington B | Claremont | 125 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Georgia Tech A | 125 | 0 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech A | Missouri B | 125 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | Sewanee | 125 | 0 |
| Riley Bruce | Tennessee B | Vanderbilt B | 125 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | WashU A | 125 | 0 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Montpellier | 125 | 0 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | LSE | 125 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Johns Hopkins A | 125 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 125 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Rochester | 125 | 0 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Binghamton A | 125 | 0 |