| Milan Fernandez | The Empire Bikes Back | BHSU B | 31 | 15 |
| Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 42 | 15 |
| Natan Holtzman | Lisan al-Quib | The Oldest Men in the World | 77 | -5 |
| Colin Stewart | var merchants | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 77 | 15 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 79 | -5 |
| Nick Jensen | LMM's LLM MLM | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 100 | -5 |
| Daniel Ma | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 126 | -5 |
| Doug Simons | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 127 | 10 |
| Eric Chen | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | Les Missourables | 127 | 10 |
| Anwen Kelleher | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 127 | -5 |
| Chris Ray | We Need New Names | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 127 | -5 |
| Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 127 | 10 |
| Amogh Kulkarni | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 133 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 134 | 10 |
| Kenji Shimizu | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 135 | 10 |
| Eric Bobrow | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 143 | 10 |
| Andrew Hart | Punished "Venom" BHSU | LMM's LLM MLM | 143 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Oldest Men in the World | Lisan al-Quib | 143 | 0 |
| Matt Weiner | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 143 | 10 |
| Dylan Minarik | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 143 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 143 | 10 |