2023 Popular Culture Week 23

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	10	100.0%	.522	.232	163
2	Jack Rousseau	California	10	100.0%	.372	.242	145
3	Jason Hess	Texas	10	100.0%	.364	.290	143
4	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	10	100.0%	.364	.189	143
5	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.359	.166	142
6	Adam Escandell	Texas	10	100.0%	.349	.223	141
7	Daniel Chung	California	10	100.0%	.342	.238	139
8	Scott Latchem	California	10	100.0%	.326	.279	138
9	Jeff Frank	Indiana	10	100.0%	.320	.271	137
10	Matthew Marcotte	California	9	90.0%	.426	.236	136
11	Tucker Warner	New York	10	100.0%	.305	.193	136
12	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	8	80.0%	.564	.231	135
13	Kari Race	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.417	.268	134
14	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.408	.277	134
15	Derek Martz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.405	.246	134
16	Jack Wolverton	Missouri	10	100.0%	.290	.236	134
17	Jack Brounstein	Texas	9	90.0%	.405	.235	133
18	Christine Irwin	Canada	10	100.0%	.307	.208	133
19	Tim Crockett	Washington	10	100.0%	.287	.195	133
20	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.376	.219	130
21	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	9	90.0%	.368	.279	129
22	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.353	.279	129
23	Radu Popescu	Canada	10	100.0%	.262	.210	129
24	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.253	.208	129
25	Evan Nagler	New York	9	90.0%	.378	.197	128
26	Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.362	.225	128
27	Lee Henry	Alabama	9	90.0%	.347	.170	127
28	John Riss	Illinois	10	100.0%	.234	.217	127
29	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.360	.213	126
30	Andy Kravis	New York	9	90.0%	.344	.202	126
31	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.338	.194	126
32	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	9	90.0%	.313	.215	123
33	Erik Eide	Canada	9	90.0%	.305	.258	123
34	Christian Wilson	New York	9	90.0%	.302	.210	121
35	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	9	90.0%	.298	.250	121
36	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	9	90.0%	.296	.241	121
37	Clifford Galiher	California	9	90.0%	.281	.280	121
38	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	9	90.0%	.293	.219	120
39	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.293	.265	120
40	Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.400	.270	119
41	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.269	.227	119
42	Jack Van Nostrand	Canada	8	80.0%	.409	.252	118
43	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	9	90.0%	.275	.227	118
44	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	9	90.0%	.259	.247	117
45	William Neiswanger	Washington	10	100.0%	.156	.161	117
46	Steven Brown	Virginia	8	80.0%	.396	.284	116
47	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.237	.207	114
48	Lauren Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.236	.267	113
49	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.490	.285	112
50	Paolo Pasco	California	8	80.0%	.348	.273	112
51	Jenna Hull	California	8	80.0%	.328	.258	112
52	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.322	.248	111
53	Max Smiley	California	8	80.0%	.332	.237	110
54	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	8	80.0%	.329	.282	110
55	Kyle Kahan	California	8	80.0%	.324	.158	110
56	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	9	90.0%	.201	.153	110
57	Jason Palmer	Ohio	8	80.0%	.310	.221	109
58	Raul Passement	Texas	8	80.0%	.302	.261	109
59	Gail Celio	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.299	.246	109
60	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	9	90.0%	.184	.154	108
61	Candy Murphy	Virginia	9	90.0%	.172	.226	108
62	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	8	80.0%	.314	.173	107
63	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.309	.194	107
64	Josh Walker	Ohio	8	80.0%	.290	.237	107
65	James Kang	California	9	90.0%	.175	.151	107
66	John Presloid	Ohio	9	90.0%	.174	.233	107
67	Elizabeth Chang	Washington	8	80.0%	.300	.227	106
68	Sean Doyle	Texas	8	80.0%	.287	.213	106
69	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.287	.259	106
70	Zoe Madonna	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.277	.226	105
71	Stephen Liu	California	8	80.0%	.273	.269	105
72	Michael Olson	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.260	.253	105
73	Erik Nickels	California	9	90.0%	.152	.142	105
74	Anthony DiCarlo	California	8	80.0%	.271	.282	104
75	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.262	.254	104
76	Ryan Milowicki	Connecticut	8	80.0%	.262	.203	104
77	Matt Smania	Michigan	8	80.0%	.259	.282	104
78	Matt Coleman	Washington	8	80.0%	.256	.206	104
79	Ryan Manton	Ohio	8	80.0%	.248	.249	104
80	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	8	80.0%	.248	.290	104
81	Kyle Morehouse	Connecticut	9	90.0%	.140	.149	104
82	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	9	90.0%	.135	.144	104
83	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	7	70.0%	.392	.335	103
84	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.254	.138	103
85	Deleena Simon	Michigan	9	90.0%	.141	.195	103
86	Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	9	90.0%	.133	.180	103
87	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.391	.227	102
88	James Washick	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.385	.222	102
89	Chris Ottolino	Missouri	7	70.0%	.392	.199	101
90	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	7	70.0%	.378	.225	101
91	Andrew Dupont	California	7	70.0%	.373	.238	101
92	JinAh Kim	Virginia	8	80.0%	.254	.174	101
93	Will Howells	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.238	.209	101
94	Daniel Feitel	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.237	.191	101
95	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.220	.244	101
96	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.217	.178	100
97	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.224	.260	99
98	Akosua Asante	Canada	8	80.0%	.223	.223	99
99	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	8	80.0%	.220	.227	99
100	Henry Blyth	Ohio	8	80.0%	.218	.251	99
101	Tom Minard	Canada	8	80.0%	.211	.227	99
102	Mike Myers	California	8	80.0%	.204	.150	99
103	Kendall Plapp	New York	7	70.0%	.354	.268	98
104	Lauren Cusitello	California	8	80.0%	.216	.220	98
105	Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.210	.166	98
106	David Kiang	Illinois	7	70.0%	.343	.249	97
107	Devon Edwards	New York	7	70.0%	.329	.195	97
108	Dan Puma	Illinois	7	70.0%	.327	.221	96
109	Darrell Johnson	Arizona	7	70.0%	.320	.185	96
110	Michael Turner	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.309	.253	96
111	Naveed Chowdhury	California	8	80.0%	.189	.166	96
112	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.184	.143	96
113	John Lance	Colorado	7	70.0%	.303	.286	95
114	Henry Cafaro	Illinois	8	80.0%	.179	.097	95
115	Tyler Berry	Canada	7	70.0%	.308	.227	94
116	William Marshall	Alabama	7	70.0%	.307	.234	94
117	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	8	80.0%	.171	.165	94
118	Greg Peterson	Illinois	8	80.0%	.170	.127	94
119	Craig Moysey	Canada	6	60.0%	.461	.239	93
120	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	7	70.0%	.296	.237	93
121	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.275	.247	93
122	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.272	.201	93
123	Ozzie Fallick	California	8	80.0%	.158	.177	93
124	Adam Sapa	Canada	7	70.0%	.286	.199	92
125	Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.282	.200	92
126	Kasper Statz	Florida	7	70.0%	.266	.208	92
127	Greg Garbee	Florida	8	80.0%	.150	.110	92
128	Dan Passner	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.252	.196	91
129	Michael Coates	Idaho	7	70.0%	.247	.222	90
130	Lawrence Simon	New York	7	70.0%	.247	.201	90
131	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	7	70.0%	.241	.247	90
132	Michael Patison	Texas	8	80.0%	.125	.191	90
133	Daniel Jude	California	7	70.0%	.257	.188	89
134	James Dowd	Hawaii	7	70.0%	.242	.176	89
135	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	7	70.0%	.239	.234	89
136	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	7	70.0%	.236	.262	89
137	Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	8	80.0%	.100	.199	89
138	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	7	70.0%	.238	.197	88
139	Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	7	70.0%	.235	.266	88
140	Matthew Askins	Arizona	7	70.0%	.217	.250	88
141	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	8	80.0%	.118	.158	88
142	Robert Kilner	Ohio	8	80.0%	.103	.103	88
143	Mitchell Rimerman	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.094	.105	88
144	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.388	.273	87
145	Nate Muckley	Illinois	7	70.0%	.235	.258	87
146	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	7	70.0%	.230	.215	87
147	Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.218	.166	87
148	Joseph Langas	Texas	7	70.0%	.220	.194	86
149	Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	7	70.0%	.215	.232	86
150	Ben Smith	Canada	7	70.0%	.205	.215	86
151	James Carberry	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.189	.216	86
152	Sarah Benner	Ohio	6	60.0%	.364	.202	85
153	Brynn Jones	Alabama	6	60.0%	.353	.263	85
154	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	6	60.0%	.351	.254	85
155	David Edwards	Illinois	6	60.0%	.349	.287	85
156	Alex Paskevicius	Canada	7	70.0%	.197	.228	85
157	Michael Kettler	Ohio	7	70.0%	.196	.203	85
158	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	7	70.0%	.191	.182	85
159	Daniel White	Washington	7	70.0%	.198	.138	84
160	Kevin Lei	Canada	7	70.0%	.187	.209	84
161	Edward Sanfrey	Ohio	7	70.0%	.177	.205	84
162	Christopher Parsons	Washington	7	70.0%	.173	.195	84
163	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	7	70.0%	.168	.195	84
164	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	8	80.0%	.069	.073	84
165	Emily Fletcher	Texas	6	60.0%	.323	.280	83
166	Connor Teevens	Michigan	7	70.0%	.184	.186	83
167	Ned Tagtmeier	Illinois	6	60.0%	.342	.260	82
168	Owen Cooper	Alabama	6	60.0%	.334	.124	82
169	Michael Bentley	Washington	6	60.0%	.322	.274	82
170	Pranav Veluri	Indiana	6	60.0%	.315	.245	82
171	Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	7	70.0%	.171	.123	82
172	Paul Campbell	California	6	60.0%	.322	.168	81
173	Ryan Luptak	Illinois	6	60.0%	.301	.327	81
174	Kane Keller	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.159	.222	81
175	Danielle Long	Illinois	7	70.0%	.137	.209	81
176	Omar Sajjad	California	6	60.0%	.288	.282	80
177	William Travis	Texas	6	60.0%	.283	.247	80
178	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.155	.116	80
179	Stephen Ours	Virginia	7	70.0%	.127	.151	80
180	Cameron Williams	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.123	.222	80
181	Rachael Peters	Michigan	7	70.0%	.119	.196	80
182	Ryan Hemmel	California	7	70.0%	.139	.114	79
183	Tommy Segi	Ohio	7	70.0%	.115	.137	79
184	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	6	60.0%	.274	.191	78
185	Randall Eng	New York	6	60.0%	.257	.278	78
186	Kenny Peskin	Virginia	6	60.0%	.241	.271	77
187	Nick Matchen	Illinois	7	70.0%	.098	.090	77
188	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	6	60.0%	.250	.234	76
189	George Atendido	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.241	.190	76
190	Patrick Carthy	Europe	6	60.0%	.234	.237	76
191	Chris Abrams	Nevada	6	60.0%	.231	.285	76
192	Justin Dusaj	Michigan	7	70.0%	.100	.073	76
193	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	6	60.0%	.241	.189	75
194	Ryan Rosenberg	California	6	60.0%	.235	.150	75
195	Chauncey Lo	California	7	70.0%	.104	.055	75
196	Dawson Owens	Ohio	7	70.0%	.094	.090	75
197	Jason Lai	New York	7	70.0%	.060	.092	75
198	Jackson Todd	Georgia	6	60.0%	.212	.173	74
199	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.209	.313	74
200	Hidehiro Anto	California	7	70.0%	.077	.090	74
201	Wesley Erpelding	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.202	.183	73
202	Kai Tang	Illinois	6	60.0%	.200	.244	73
203	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.199	.225	73
204	John Kocsis	Virginia	6	60.0%	.196	.221	72
205	Harry White	Virginia	6	60.0%	.177	.202	72
206	Joshua Grischow	Ohio	6	60.0%	.173	.099	72
207	John Brock	Massachusetts	5	50.0%	.357	.293	71
208	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	5	50.0%	.347	.218	71
209	Chris Becker	Maryland	6	60.0%	.174	.141	71
210	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	6	60.0%	.168	.211	71
211	Erik Christensen	Canada	6	60.0%	.185	.150	70
212	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.154	.231	70
213	Cody Donahue	Mississippi	6	60.0%	.154	.145	70
214	Christopher Harris	Texas	6	60.0%	.149	.154	70
215	Andrew Almas	Canada	5	50.0%	.318	.311	69
216	Matthew Grieco	New York	6	60.0%	.163	.134	69
217	Sam Davis	Texas	6	60.0%	.139	.264	69
218	Nate Kane	Arizona	5	50.0%	.287	.229	67
219	Haley Gambrell	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.111	.110	67
220	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	6	60.0%	.102	.131	67
221	Lawrence McGillicuddy	Georgia	5	50.0%	.283	.289	66
222	Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	4	40.0%	.529	.204	65
223	Lars Melton	Virginia	5	50.0%	.270	.242	65
224	Natalie Schermer	Washington	5	50.0%	.263	.229	65
225	Chris Morin	New York	6	60.0%	.107	.107	65
226	Jill Heink	Kentucky	6	60.0%	.105	.080	65
227	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	6	60.0%	.093	.098	65
228	Andrey Goder	California	6	60.0%	.084	.110	65
229	Abel Gilsing	Europe	5	50.0%	.234	.238	64
230	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	6	60.0%	.095	.073	64
231	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	6	60.0%	.074	.290	64
232	Eric Li	Massachusetts	4	40.0%	.491	.281	63
233	Gary Morris	New York	5	50.0%	.227	.316	63
234	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.229	.194	62
235	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.214	.193	62
236	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	6	60.0%	.049	.049	62
237	Michael Joy	Michigan	5	50.0%	.174	.146	60
238	Julian Saddy	Canada	5	50.0%	.172	.176	59
239	Daniel Galitsky	District of Columbia	5	50.0%	.169	.121	59
240	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	5	50.0%	.165	.166	59
241	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	5	50.0%	.147	.155	58
242	Delano Barnes	Texas	5	50.0%	.166	.119	57
243	Chris Hale	Virginia	5	50.0%	.138	.227	57
244	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.359	.236	56
245	Lynn Yu	California	5	50.0%	.137	.234	55
246	Josh Hill	Arkansas	5	50.0%	.112	.113	55
247	Shauna McNally	Canada	4	40.0%	.305	.258	54
248	Tristan Clarke	Arizona	5	50.0%	.097	.073	54
249	Jessica Chellino	Florida	5	50.0%	.098	.055	53
250	Talia Fan	Canada	5	50.0%	.092	.195	53
251	Nolan Jones	Indiana	5	50.0%	.083	.066	53
252	Michael Shang	Maryland	5	50.0%	.054	.054	52
253	Joe Nutter	Georgia	5	50.0%	.036	.051	52
254	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	4	40.0%	.241	.193	51
255	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	5	50.0%	.023	.047	51
256	Violet Hundt	Wisconsin	5	50.0%	.009	.085	50
257	Mary Foley	Arizona	4	40.0%	.165	.227	48
258	Scott Oberstaedt	Virginia	4	40.0%	.195	.220	47
259	Russ Hart	New York	4	40.0%	.148	.151	46
260	Jason Laabs	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.134	.145	45
261	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.124	.156	45
262	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	4	40.0%	.115	.093	44
263	Zane Placie	Georgia	4	40.0%	.098	.094	44
264	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	4	40.0%	.101	.065	43
265	David Snoddon	Canada	4	40.0%	.059	.057	42
266	Sheldon Wong	Illinois	4	40.0%	.045	.064	42
267	Parth Jagtap	Canada	3	30.0%	.294	.275	40
268	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	3	30.0%	.259	.179	38
269	Dan Ni	New York	3	30.0%	.218	.169	37
270	Siddarth Kumar	Indiana	3	30.0%	.214	.255	37
271	Evan Knox	North Carolina	3	30.0%	.199	.257	36
272	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	3	30.0%	.166	.151	36
273	Bryan Householder	Ohio	3	30.0%	.073	.074	32
274	Douglas Wilham	Kentucky	3	30.0%	.000	.000	30
275	Susan Corbus	Illinois	2	20.0%	.099	.063	22
276	Bhaskar Moorthy	Louisiana	2	20.0%	.000	.025	20
277	Matthew Given	Louisiana	1	33.3%	.028	.007	10
278	Louis Johnson	Alabama	1	10.0%	.001	.237	10
279	Padraig Finan	Washington	1	10.0%	.000	.037	10
280	Jacob Stiepleman	Washington	1	10.0%	.000	.000	10
281	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.021	0

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