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 |
| Adil Haider | McMaster A | Ottawa | 86 | -5 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | UBC A | 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 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | UBC B | 92 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Central Florida C | 92 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCLA A | 92 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Maryland A | 95 | -5 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Simon Fraser | 96 | -5 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | McGill A | 96 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 96 | -5 |
| Mari Montoya | Waterloo B | Toronto E | 96 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell 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 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Minnesota A | 99 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 99 | -5 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Washington B | 100 | -5 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 100 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 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 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 105 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | Arizona State | 105 | 10 |
| Tom Morris-Jones | Birmingham | Durham | 106 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | McGill B | 107 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Edinburgh B | 107 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 107 | -5 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago E | Purdue B | 107 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 107 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | City St. George's | 110 | -5 |
| Matthew Stasiw | Toronto C | Western C | 111 | -5 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE | Imperial B | 111 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida B | 111 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Kentucky | 112 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama A | 112 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 112 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago D | 114 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | Southampton A | 115 | -5 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto F | Western B | 115 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell B | 116 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Indiana C | 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 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Brock | 125 | 0 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Carleton University | 125 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | McMaster A | 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 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Bristol | 125 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cardiff | 125 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Montpellier | 125 | 0 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | LSE | 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 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Johns Hopkins A | 125 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 125 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern D | Illinois 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 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Rochester | 125 | 0 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Binghamton A | 125 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | UC Irvine | 125 | 0 |
| Jadon Pandian | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 125 | 0 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 125 | 10 |
| John Augustyn | Notre Dame B | Illinois B | 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 |