In a story by this author, a depressed adult still dreams about a dark hill road he walked down when he was eight after hanging out at the minecarts. In a story by this author, a character believes that he can still see the perfect painting of a mountain in his head despite being disappointed by the sight of the supposed real painting. A novel by this author imagines a society that worships Lifeism and gives fetuses the option to be born or not. A story by this author is presented as a sequence of testimonies to the High Police Commissioner, with the last presented by a medium. An old woman robs the hair from corpses to make wigs and has her clothes robbed by a young man sheltering from the rain in a story by this author. For 10 points, name this author of “In a Grove” and “Rashomon.” ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 120.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 120.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 0% | 113.45 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 126.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.60 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 116.63 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 118.71 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 106.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 131.38 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.33 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.89 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 123.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Newman | Duke | North Carolina A | 62 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 67 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Kentucky | 68 | -5 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Ottawa | 78 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | CWRU B | 78 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Georgia Tech A | 82 | -5 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 83 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago B | 83 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Swarthmore | 83 | 10 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Claremont | 87 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 88 | -5 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Bristol | 100 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Queen's | 102 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina B | 103 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Chicago E | 103 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Stanford B | 105 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 107 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UCSD A | 107 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Toronto C | 107 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | CWRU A | 107 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina C | 107 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Yale | 107 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 107 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland A | 107 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Carleton College | 108 | 10 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State B | Michigan A | 109 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA B | Arizona State | 110 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Carleton University | 110 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | UBC A | 110 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida B | 110 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Michigan State | 110 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 110 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | RIT | 110 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Cambridge C | 111 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell A | 111 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Chicago C | 112 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Rutgers A | 112 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | McGill B | 113 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Dartmouth B | 113 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard A | Southern Connecticut State | 113 | 10 |
| William Day | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 113 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Ohio State C | 114 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UC Irvine | 115 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph | Toronto E | 115 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | James Madison A | 115 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Northwestern C | 115 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Harvard B | 115 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech D | Tennessee A | 115 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Oxford B | 115 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | Imperial A | 115 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Columbia A | 115 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Columbia B | 115 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto F | 117 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Bruin | 117 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Catholic | 117 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Vassar | 117 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | McGill A | 118 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Florida A | 118 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | William and Mary | 118 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Notre Dame B | 118 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Imperial C | 120 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Alabama B | 121 | -5 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Louisville B | 122 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 122 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Minnesota A | 123 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | UC Santa Barbara | 125 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Duke | 126 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Toronto G | 131 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | NC State A | 131 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Sewanee | 137 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | John Jay | 137 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto D | 147 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 149 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | City St. George's | 149 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 149 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD C | 150 | 10 |
| Noah Lee | Western A | Western B | 150 | 0 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Western A | 150 | 0 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 150 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | Central Florida B | Florida C | 150 | 0 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | James Madison B | 150 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | Wake Forest | 150 | 0 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Northwestern B | 150 | 0 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Northwestern D | 150 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Indiana B | 150 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Indiana C | 150 | 0 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | WashU B | 150 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Mississipi State | 150 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Vanderbilt B | 150 | 10 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Cornell C | 150 | 0 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Rochester | 150 | 0 |