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Separately published fragments detail this character’s journey to Tauris and his stay in Odessa. This character is last seen standing in “desolation / as if by thunder struck” before he hears a clink of spurs behind him in a 2008 translation by Stanley Mitchell. In a dream sequence, this man presides over a group of monsters in a hut which a woman is dragged to by a talking bear. This man claims that he would be a bad husband in a “sermon” used (10[1])to reject a woman who wrote (10[1])a love letter to him (10[1])in French. This protagonist (10[1])angers Zaretsky by bringing his servant Guillot to an event that is precipitated when this man dances with Olga at Tatiana’s name-day celebration. Lensky is killed in a duel by, for 10 points, what title character of a verse (-5[1])novel by Alexander Pushkin? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Eugene Onegin [or Eugene; or Yevgeny Onegin]
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Amogh KulkarniGeodesicGeorgia Tech A8210
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AGeorgia Tech B8810
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaVanderbilt B9310
Jack LewisMTSUKentucky9710
Davin SivertsonAlabamaTennessee136-5
Alexander WyrickTennesseeAlabama14010

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2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell01/27/2024Y1100%0%0%117.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU01/27/2024Y9100%0%0%122.22
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota01/27/2024Y2100%0%0%112.50
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2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers01/27/2024Y5100%0%40%118.80
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt01/27/2024Y5100%0%20%100.00