2023 Popular Culture Week 38

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Jack Brounstein	Texas	10	100.0%	.440	.285	155
2	Benjamin Kitchen	Colorado	10	100.0%	.408	.196	149
3	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	10	100.0%	.387	.280	145
4	James Dowd	Hawaii	10	100.0%	.376	.132	143
5	Matthew Marcotte	California	9	90.0%	.480	.232	141
6	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	9	90.0%	.476	.117	141
7	Ryan Milowicki	Connecticut	9	90.0%	.474	.213	139
8	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	10	100.0%	.326	.211	139
9	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	10	100.0%	.315	.229	138
10	Randall Eng	New York	9	90.0%	.417	.246	136
11	Shannon Jamison	Virginia	10	100.0%	.315	.237	136
12	Chris Miller	Kentucky	9	90.0%	.424	.278	135
13	Jack Wolverton	Missouri	10	100.0%	.299	.194	134
14	Devon Edwards	New York	10	100.0%	.298	.171	134
15	Scott Latchem	California	9	90.0%	.406	.265	133
16	Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	10	100.0%	.288	.226	133
17	Derek Martz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.380	.218	132
18	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.269	.235	131
19	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.384	.198	130
20	Mike Myers	California	9	90.0%	.366	.284	130
21	Tracey Hickman	Oklahoma	10	100.0%	.257	.219	130
22	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.373	.235	129
23	Jason Hess	Texas	9	90.0%	.372	.216	129
24	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	9	90.0%	.368	.210	129
25	Chris Ottolino	Missouri	9	90.0%	.362	.235	128
26	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	9	90.0%	.368	.157	127
27	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	8	80.0%	.491	.293	126
28	Andy Kravis	New York	9	90.0%	.351	.195	126
29	Kari Race	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.342	.264	125
30	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	9	90.0%	.323	.283	125
31	Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.339	.125	124
32	Tim Crockett	Washington	9	90.0%	.320	.211	123
33	John Presloid	Ohio	9	90.0%	.314	.271	123
34	Cari Milowicki	Ohio	9	90.0%	.312	.265	122
35	Evan Nagler	New York	9	90.0%	.303	.244	122
36	Jared Cubilla	Canada	8	80.0%	.433	.281	121
37	Matt Smania	Michigan	9	90.0%	.300	.268	121
38	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.300	.205	120
39	Jack Rousseau	California	9	90.0%	.298	.182	120
40	Chris Abrams	Nevada	9	90.0%	.283	.238	119
41	Julian Saddy	Canada	9	90.0%	.272	.193	118
42	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	9	90.0%	.266	.316	118
43	Andrew Dupont	California	8	80.0%	.399	.233	117
44	Erik Eide	Canada	8	80.0%	.395	.236	117
45	Jason Serrano	New York	8	80.0%	.392	.201	117
46	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	8	80.0%	.389	.150	117
47	Steven Brown	Virginia	9	90.0%	.266	.144	116
48	Michael Patison	Texas	9	90.0%	.252	.188	116
49	Lee Henry	Alabama	9	90.0%	.249	.205	116
50	Talia Fan	Canada	8	80.0%	.393	.151	115
51	Daniel Feitel	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.379	.233	115
52	Jason Palmer	Ohio	8	80.0%	.356	.274	115
53	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	9	90.0%	.244	.207	115
54	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.375	.293	114
55	Jack Van Nostrand	Canada	8	80.0%	.363	.253	114
56	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.353	.286	114
57	Lauren Manton	Ohio	9	90.0%	.236	.232	114
58	Christine Irwin	Canada	8	80.0%	.362	.194	113
59	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	8	80.0%	.357	.170	113
60	John Riss	Illinois	8	80.0%	.341	.247	112
61	Lawrence Simon	New York	8	80.0%	.339	.212	112
62	Akosua Asante	Canada	8	80.0%	.334	.305	111
63	Ryan Rosenberg	California	8	80.0%	.333	.231	111
64	Erik Nickels	California	8	80.0%	.327	.202	111
65	Dibyo Haldar	Asia	9	90.0%	.220	.222	111
66	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	9	90.0%	.202	.172	110
67	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	7	70.0%	.473	.324	109
68	Andy Brown	Illinois	8	80.0%	.308	.227	109
69	Clifford Galiher	California	8	80.0%	.307	.294	109
70	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	7	70.0%	.449	.288	108
71	Sofia Pralle	Washington	8	80.0%	.315	.241	108
72	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.315	.237	108
73	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	8	80.0%	.314	.272	108
74	Adam Sapa	Canada	8	80.0%	.313	.215	108
75	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.311	.272	108
76	Kyle Kahan	California	8	80.0%	.300	.279	108
77	Brynn Jones	Alabama	8	80.0%	.289	.225	107
78	Eric Li	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.292	.188	106
79	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	8	80.0%	.284	.183	106
80	Dillon Edwards	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.156	.157	105
81	Patrick Carthy	Europe	9	90.0%	.164	.132	104
82	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	7	70.0%	.404	.248	103
83	Adam Escandell	Texas	7	70.0%	.392	.205	103
84	Elizabeth Chang	Washington	8	80.0%	.258	.173	103
85	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.383	.243	102
86	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	7	70.0%	.381	.275	102
87	Tucker Warner	New York	7	70.0%	.380	.224	101
88	Paolo Pasco	California	7	70.0%	.379	.234	101
89	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.377	.250	101
90	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	8	80.0%	.234	.208	101
91	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	7	70.0%	.380	.268	100
92	Stephen Liu	California	7	70.0%	.378	.219	100
93	Mark Morris	Alabama	8	80.0%	.222	.242	100
94	Ryan Manton	Ohio	7	70.0%	.359	.203	99
95	Greg Peterson	Illinois	7	70.0%	.352	.221	99
96	Connor Teevens	Michigan	7	70.0%	.335	.229	98
97	Craig Moysey	Canada	7	70.0%	.338	.206	97
98	Harry White	Virginia	7	70.0%	.326	.201	97
99	Matthew Askins	Arizona	8	80.0%	.201	.168	97
100	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.331	.257	96
101	Danny Lardner	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.306	.263	96
102	Daniel Jude	California	8	80.0%	.180	.146	96
103	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.307	.220	95
104	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	7	70.0%	.302	.219	95
105	Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.301	.209	94
106	Will Howells	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.297	.279	94
107	Nate Muckley	Illinois	8	80.0%	.158	.179	94
108	Henry Cafaro	Illinois	7	70.0%	.298	.228	93
109	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.292	.268	93
110	Tom Minard	Canada	7	70.0%	.280	.195	93
111	William Marshall	Alabama	7	70.0%	.278	.163	93
112	Omar Sajjad	California	6	60.0%	.442	.233	92
113	Michael Coates	Idaho	7	70.0%	.285	.212	92
114	Chris Becker	Maryland	7	70.0%	.272	.257	92
115	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	7	70.0%	.272	.245	92
116	Amy Whitelaw	Virginia	7	70.0%	.272	.171	92
117	John Kocsis	Virginia	7	70.0%	.275	.255	91
118	Dan Passner	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.267	.209	91
119	Josh Walker	Ohio	7	70.0%	.263	.170	91
120	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	7	70.0%	.265	.170	90
121	William Travis	Texas	7	70.0%	.262	.193	90
122	Wesley Erpelding	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.259	.227	90
123	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.252	.186	90
124	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.248	.199	90
125	Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.424	.215	89
126	Erik Christensen	Canada	6	60.0%	.409	.223	89
127	Mitchell Rimerman	District of Columbia	7	70.0%	.247	.203	89
128	Andy Rossitch	Georgia	7	70.0%	.234	.290	89
129	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	7	70.0%	.228	.145	89
130	Kendall Plapp	New York	8	80.0%	.115	.182	89
131	Michael Olson	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.401	.260	88
132	Scott Oberstaedt	Virginia	7	70.0%	.231	.155	88
133	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	7	70.0%	.227	.266	88
134	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	7	70.0%	.224	.201	88
135	Deleena Simon	Michigan	8	80.0%	.092	.154	88
136	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.392	.311	87
137	Gail Celio	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.221	.205	87
138	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	8	80.0%	.094	.113	87
139	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	8	80.0%	.079	.137	87
140	Joseph Langas	Texas	7	70.0%	.218	.173	86
141	Abel Gilsing	Europe	7	70.0%	.218	.229	86
142	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.373	.279	85
143	Radu Popescu	Canada	6	60.0%	.353	.190	85
144	James Washick	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.346	.242	85
145	Henry Blyth	Ohio	7	70.0%	.200	.213	85
146	Jesse Tow	Illinois	6	60.0%	.350	.113	84
147	Parth Jagtap	Canada	6	60.0%	.336	.337	84
148	Michael Arjona	Georgia	7	70.0%	.167	.159	84
149	Dan Puma	Illinois	6	60.0%	.344	.273	83
150	Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.321	.279	83
151	Garrison Page	Kentucky	7	70.0%	.177	.132	83
152	David Kiang	Illinois	6	60.0%	.326	.161	82
153	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.324	.265	82
154	William Neiswanger	Washington	6	60.0%	.317	.204	82
155	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	7	70.0%	.181	.233	82
156	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	7	70.0%	.150	.167	82
157	Darrell Johnson	Arizona	6	60.0%	.308	.189	81
158	Daniel White	Washington	6	60.0%	.303	.168	81
159	Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	7	70.0%	.133	.166	81
160	Joe Nutter	Georgia	8	80.0%	.026	.182	81
161	Candy Murphy	Virginia	6	60.0%	.299	.222	80
162	Max Smiley	California	6	60.0%	.293	.240	80
163	Will Johnson	Virginia	6	60.0%	.288	.248	80
164	Naveed Chowdhury	California	6	60.0%	.287	.219	80
165	Rachael Peters	Michigan	7	70.0%	.127	.168	80
166	Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.492	.283	79
167	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	5	50.0%	.477	.318	79
168	Owen Cooper	Alabama	5	50.0%	.467	.162	79
169	Jeff Frank	Indiana	6	60.0%	.288	.188	79
170	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	6	60.0%	.285	.230	79
171	Chauncey Lo	California	6	60.0%	.284	.154	79
172	Kevin Lei	Canada	6	60.0%	.268	.211	79
173	Andrew Almas	Canada	6	60.0%	.257	.259	79
174	Cameron Williams	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.117	.167	79
175	Nick Matchen	Illinois	6	60.0%	.270	.273	78
176	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	6	60.0%	.269	.131	78
177	Lynn Yu	California	6	60.0%	.263	.248	78
178	James Denning	Ohio	6	60.0%	.259	.166	78
179	Jackson Todd	Georgia	6	60.0%	.250	.227	78
180	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	7	70.0%	.117	.171	78
181	Tyler Berry	Canada	7	70.0%	.105	.135	78
182	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.255	.150	77
183	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	6	60.0%	.253	.206	77
184	Jill Heink	Kentucky	6	60.0%	.252	.251	77
185	Ryan Hemmel	California	6	60.0%	.252	.130	77
186	Kane Keller	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.251	.188	77
187	Jimmy Dunn	Michigan	6	60.0%	.248	.175	77
188	George Atendido	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.242	.266	77
189	Jason Lai	New York	7	70.0%	.086	.129	77
190	Andrey Goder	California	6	60.0%	.246	.209	76
191	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	5	50.0%	.426	.242	75
192	Kelly Rabin	Washington	6	60.0%	.237	.200	75
193	Javas Lal	New Jersey	6	60.0%	.217	.194	75
194	Chris Hale	Virginia	6	60.0%	.217	.181	75
195	Alex Paskevicius	Canada	6	60.0%	.209	.153	75
196	Michael Joy	Michigan	5	50.0%	.396	.269	74
197	Raul Passement	Texas	6	60.0%	.214	.271	74
198	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	6	60.0%	.213	.153	74
199	Christopher Parsons	Washington	6	60.0%	.207	.166	74
200	Jason Laabs	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.199	.184	74
201	Ryan Luptak	Illinois	5	50.0%	.387	.252	73
202	Tony Chen	Canada	6	60.0%	.220	.178	73
203	Paul Campbell	California	6	60.0%	.214	.140	73
204	Zoe Kaperonis	New York	6	60.0%	.193	.102	73
205	Avery Strangstalien	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.184	.178	73
206	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.373	.195	72
207	Lauren Cusitello	California	6	60.0%	.182	.154	71
208	Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia	6	60.0%	.181	.134	71
209	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	5	50.0%	.338	.267	70
210	Kai Tang	Illinois	5	50.0%	.340	.246	69
211	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	5	50.0%	.337	.289	69
212	Sarah Benner	Ohio	5	50.0%	.331	.147	69
213	Matt Coleman	Washington	5	50.0%	.327	.193	69
214	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	6	60.0%	.140	.125	69
215	Edward Sanfrey	Ohio	6	60.0%	.138	.127	68
216	Michael Turner	South Carolina	5	50.0%	.295	.163	67
217	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	6	60.0%	.097	.160	67
218	Greg Garbee	Florida	5	50.0%	.274	.265	66
219	Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	5	50.0%	.271	.240	66
220	Nora Denning	Ohio	5	50.0%	.283	.161	65
221	Jenna Hull	California	5	50.0%	.268	.147	65
222	Ben Smith	Canada	5	50.0%	.266	.175	65
223	Stephen Ours	Virginia	5	50.0%	.258	.236	65
224	Suwanna Blakey	Florida	5	50.0%	.250	.147	65
225	Christian Wilson	New York	5	50.0%	.252	.063	64
226	Ben Dillon	Indiana	5	50.0%	.245	.215	64
227	Robert Kilner	Ohio	5	50.0%	.220	.223	62
228	Anthony DiCarlo	California	5	50.0%	.228	.160	61
229	John Petrovich	Indiana	5	50.0%	.202	.161	60
230	Chuck Yu	Maryland	5	50.0%	.201	.197	60
231	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	5	50.0%	.193	.199	60
232	Michael Bentley	Washington	5	50.0%	.181	.186	60
233	Shauna McNally	Canada	5	50.0%	.180	.277	60
234	Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	5	50.0%	.172	.122	59
235	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.165	.142	59
236	Nate Kane	Arizona	4	40.0%	.396	.206	58
237	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	4	40.0%	.378	.253	58
238	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	5	50.0%	.144	.131	58
239	David Snoddon	Canada	5	50.0%	.138	.164	58
240	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	4	40.0%	.356	.284	57
241	Delano Barnes	Texas	5	50.0%	.133	.149	57
242	Danielle Long	Illinois	5	50.0%	.126	.139	57
243	Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	4	40.0%	.333	.188	56
244	Matthew Hart	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.151	.097	56
245	Michael Shang	Maryland	5	50.0%	.137	.139	56
246	Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	4	40.0%	.331	.256	54
247	Michael Kettler	Ohio	4	40.0%	.297	.228	54
248	Daniel Chung	California	4	40.0%	.294	.198	53
249	Sheldon Wong	Illinois	5	50.0%	.070	.094	53
250	Cody Donahue	Mississippi	4	40.0%	.264	.232	52
251	James Carberry	Louisiana	4	40.0%	.263	.141	52
252	Douglas Wilham	Kentucky	4	40.0%	.239	.192	51
253	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	5	50.0%	.020	.027	51
254	Jessica Chellino	Florida	4	40.0%	.241	.121	50
255	Haley Gambrell	South Carolina	4	40.0%	.225	.148	50
256	Russ Hart	New York	4	40.0%	.213	.147	49
257	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	4	40.0%	.206	.373	49
258	Bryan Householder	Ohio	4	40.0%	.201	.153	49
259	Christopher Harris	Texas	4	40.0%	.198	.130	49
260	David Edwards	Illinois	4	40.0%	.196	.246	49
261	Josh Hill	Arkansas	4	40.0%	.177	.149	48
262	Hidehiro Anto	California	4	40.0%	.168	.200	48
263	Tommy Segi	Ohio	4	40.0%	.162	.169	47
264	Liz Fujita	Michigan	4	40.0%	.153	.214	47
265	Dawson Owens	Ohio	4	40.0%	.143	.161	46
266	Amory Kaufman	Minnesota	4	40.0%	.138	.095	45
267	Sean Doyle	Texas	4	66.7%	.105	.105	44
268	Emily Fletcher	Texas	3	30.0%	.370	.275	43
269	Dan Ni	New York	3	30.0%	.333	.209	42
270	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	4	40.0%	.025	.034	41
271	Lars Melton	Virginia	3	30.0%	.305	.194	40
272	Susan Corbus	Illinois	3	30.0%	.244	.174	38
273	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	3	30.0%	.190	.154	36
274	Brock Stephenson	Canada	3	30.0%	.183	.123	36
275	Tristan Clarke	Arizona	3	30.0%	.166	.283	35
276	Mary Foley	Arizona	3	30.0%	.102	.097	33
277	Zane Placie	Georgia	3	30.0%	.096	.270	33
278	Natalie Schermer	Washington	3	30.0%	.000	.292	30
279	Violet Hundt	Wisconsin	2	20.0%	.129	.097	23
280	Padraig Finan	Washington	1	10.0%	.000	.434	10
281	Louis Johnson	Alabama	1	100.0%	.000	-1.000	10
282	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	0	0.0%	-1.000	.009	0

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