2023 Popular Culture Week 1

Standings

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#	Player	Region	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev. Celerity	Score
1	Aaron Dos Remedios	Canada	10	100.0%	.424	.230	151
2	Andy Kravis	New York	10	100.0%	.420	.237	150
3	Drew Scheeler	Ohio	9	90.0%	.493	.199	144
4	Anthony Peek	Louisiana	10	100.0%	.384	.233	144
5	Jason Palmer	Ohio	10	100.0%	.375	.278	144
6	Nate Kane	Arizona	10	100.0%	.358	.263	142
7	Tomás Aguilar-Fraga	California	10	100.0%	.335	.227	139
8	Harley Andrew	Wisconsin	10	100.0%	.334	.223	139
9	Scott Latchem	California	10	100.0%	.330	.208	139
10	Steven Brown	Virginia	10	100.0%	.325	.205	137
11	James Dowd	Hawaii	9	90.0%	.410	.302	135
12	Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	New York	9	90.0%	.399	.239	134
13	Jason Sterlacci	New Jersey	10	100.0%	.306	.285	134
14	McKinnie Lee Sizemore	Florida	10	100.0%	.302	.248	134
15	Kyle Kahan	California	10	100.0%	.298	.162	134
16	Stephen Ours	Virginia	10	100.0%	.291	.253	134
17	John Lance	Colorado	9	90.0%	.376	.199	132
18	Steve Bahnaman	North Carolina	10	100.0%	.283	.243	132
19	Chris Miller	Kentucky	10	100.0%	.267	.253	131
20	Evan Nagler	New York	10	100.0%	.260	.151	131
21	Carlos Hernandez Fisher	Canada	9	90.0%	.378	.260	130
22	Matthew Marcotte	California	9	90.0%	.364	.231	130
23	Craig Moysey	Canada	10	100.0%	.270	.240	130
24	Greg Peterson	Illinois	10	100.0%	.265	.166	130
25	Tom Minard	Canada	10	100.0%	.258	.247	130
26	Chris Abrams	Nevada	10	100.0%	.268	.195	129
27	Sarah Benner	Ohio	10	100.0%	.266	.240	129
28	Chris Ottolino	Missouri	9	90.0%	.363	.250	128
29	Jason Serrano	New York	9	90.0%	.354	.219	128
30	Tim Crockett	Washington	10	100.0%	.246	.234	128
31	Jack Rousseau	California	9	90.0%	.352	.145	127
32	Daniel Jude	California	10	100.0%	.245	.276	127
33	Derek Martz	Illinois	8	80.0%	.479	.289	126
34	Frank Grabowski	Pennsylvania	10	100.0%	.231	.262	126
35	Ryan Milowicki	Connecticut	9	90.0%	.343	.272	125
36	Jack Brounstein	Texas	9	90.0%	.335	.241	125
37	Sean Calhoun	Iowa	10	100.0%	.205	.251	125
38	Adam Escandell	Texas	9	90.0%	.332	.296	124
39	Jeff Frank	Indiana	9	90.0%	.328	.267	124
40	Kari Race	Wisconsin	9	90.0%	.316	.251	124
41	Owen Cooper	Alabama	7	70.0%	.612	.221	123
42	Ramapriya Rangaraju	Kentucky	8	80.0%	.444	.257	123
43	Devon Edwards	New York	9	90.0%	.324	.257	123
44	Michael Olson	Minnesota	10	100.0%	.207	.158	123
45	Christine Irwin	Canada	9	90.0%	.312	.238	122
46	Tyler Berry	Canada	10	100.0%	.197	.211	122
47	Charlie Fritz	Illinois	9	90.0%	.298	.216	121
48	Jack Wolverton	Missouri	10	100.0%	.192	.238	121
49	Nicholas Harrison	Canada	10	100.0%	.184	.213	121
50	Joey Goldman	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.182	.246	121
51	Seoan Webb	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.195	.249	120
52	Andrew Dupont	California	10	100.0%	.177	.221	120
53	John Presloid	Ohio	9	90.0%	.280	.180	119
54	Elisabeth Evan	Ohio	9	90.0%	.280	.247	119
55	Jason Hess	Texas	9	90.0%	.276	.171	119
56	William Travis	Texas	9	90.0%	.274	.284	119
57	Daniel White	Washington	10	100.0%	.166	.245	119
58	John Riss	Illinois	9	90.0%	.288	.206	118
59	Jack Van Nostrand	Canada	9	90.0%	.269	.308	118
60	Joseph Langas	Texas	9	90.0%	.267	.217	117
61	Gail Celio	Minnesota	9	90.0%	.258	.267	117
62	Candy Murphy	Virginia	10	100.0%	.162	.197	117
63	Jonathan Pinyan	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.370	.243	116
64	Dan Puma	Illinois	9	90.0%	.265	.199	116
65	Deleena Simon	Michigan	9	90.0%	.246	.228	116
66	Jacob O'Rourke	Missouri	9	90.0%	.244	.202	116
67	Matthew LaMagna	Virginia	10	100.0%	.144	.185	116
68	Bobb X. Ha	Texas	8	80.0%	.379	.258	115
69	Talia Fan	Canada	8	80.0%	.373	.254	115
70	Scott Aefsky	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.253	.219	115
71	Janice Paton	Massachusetts	9	90.0%	.247	.253	115
72	Michael Coates	Idaho	9	90.0%	.244	.253	115
73	Matthew Askins	Arizona	9	90.0%	.228	.227	115
74	Scott Oberstaedt	Virginia	10	100.0%	.141	.157	115
75	Lee Henry	Alabama	8	80.0%	.364	.320	114
76	Stephen Liu	California	9	90.0%	.251	.221	114
77	Anu Kashyap	California	9	90.0%	.241	.207	114
78	Ned Tagtmeier	Illinois	8	80.0%	.344	.271	113
79	Erik Christensen	Canada	9	90.0%	.252	.172	113
80	Ryan Rosenberg	California	9	90.0%	.226	.234	113
81	John Petrovich	Indiana	9	90.0%	.218	.235	113
82	Matt Rossitch	Georgia	9	90.0%	.213	.221	113
83	Ozzie Fallick	California	10	100.0%	.123	.216	113
84	Daniel Fullard	United Kingdom	10	100.0%	.116	.189	113
85	Radu Popescu	Canada	8	80.0%	.345	.272	112
86	David Kiang	Illinois	9	90.0%	.235	.159	112
87	Michael Kettler	Ohio	9	90.0%	.214	.235	112
88	Darrell Johnson	Arizona	8	80.0%	.340	.226	111
89	Harry White	Virginia	9	90.0%	.233	.195	111
90	Stan Jastrzebski	Indiana	9	90.0%	.220	.266	111
91	Alex Schmidt	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.215	.256	111
92	Clifford Galiher	California	8	80.0%	.327	.266	110
93	Tristan Clarke	Arizona	8	80.0%	.319	.274	110
94	Kenji Shimizu	Michigan	9	90.0%	.209	.205	110
95	Chris Becker	Maryland	9	90.0%	.198	.201	110
96	Jenna Hull	California	9	90.0%	.193	.189	110
97	Jimmy Li	California	8	80.0%	.320	.230	109
98	Gerry Tansey	Missouri	9	90.0%	.195	.185	109
99	Seth Rosenkrans	Pennsylvania	9	90.0%	.183	.223	109
100	Tucker Warner	New York	8	80.0%	.318	.156	108
101	Paul Campbell	California	9	90.0%	.189	.210	108
102	Robert Kilner	Ohio	9	90.0%	.177	.224	108
103	JinAh Kim	Virginia	8	80.0%	.288	.295	107
104	Cari Milowicki	Ohio	8	80.0%	.282	.274	107
105	Katie Bauermeister	California	8	80.0%	.281	.281	107
106	Ryan Hemmel	California	9	90.0%	.189	.204	107
107	Andrew Fisher	United Kingdom	9	90.0%	.184	.240	107
108	Jesse Tow	Illinois	8	80.0%	.277	.222	106
109	Quinn McGarry	Missouri	8	80.0%	.274	.237	106
110	Darren Petrosino	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.271	.267	106
111	Max Smiley	California	7	70.0%	.414	.245	105
112	Kevin Lei	Canada	8	80.0%	.278	.169	105
113	Matt Smania	Michigan	8	80.0%	.275	.254	105
114	Gary Foote	Maryland	9	90.0%	.133	.201	104
115	Alex Paskevicius	Canada	8	80.0%	.253	.269	103
116	Karsten Wallace	Alabama	9	90.0%	.144	.186	103
117	Mike Myers	California	9	90.0%	.137	.182	103
118	Gary Morris	New York	7	70.0%	.384	.233	102
119	Mike Malloy	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.379	.281	102
120	Brian Lipinski	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.250	.202	102
121	Erik Eide	Canada	8	80.0%	.244	.234	102
122	Michael McPartland	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.236	.257	102
123	Dan Passner	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.235	.215	102
124	William Marshall	Alabama	7	70.0%	.372	.280	101
125	Kent Buxton	Maryland	8	80.0%	.241	.203	101
126	Kaberi Chakrabarty	Illinois	8	80.0%	.233	.228	101
127	Jack Garrison	Ohio	8	80.0%	.224	.260	101
128	Christian Wilson	New York	7	70.0%	.368	.261	100
129	Gwen Abrams	Nevada	8	80.0%	.217	.224	100
130	Michael Bentley	Washington	8	80.0%	.212	.240	100
131	Michael Arjona	Georgia	9	90.0%	.114	.195	100
132	Randall Eng	New York	8	80.0%	.220	.190	99
133	Kendall Plapp	New York	8	80.0%	.213	.230	99
134	Eric Douglass	South Carolina	8	80.0%	.202	.143	98
135	Patrick Carthy	Europe	8	80.0%	.209	.170	97
136	Ryan Luptak	Illinois	8	80.0%	.200	.203	97
137	Theo Howe	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.187	.227	97
138	John Brock	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.181	.244	97
139	Jeremy Tsai	New Jersey	8	80.0%	.180	.253	97
140	Ali Filipowicz	Virginia	7	70.0%	.320	.230	96
141	Lawrence Simon	New York	7	70.0%	.316	.259	96
142	Trey Andrusky	Pennsylvania	7	70.0%	.308	.261	96
143	Simon Sweeney	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.182	.224	96
144	Rachael Peters	Michigan	8	80.0%	.173	.238	96
145	Nathan Aderhold	Colorado	8	80.0%	.172	.248	96
146	David Edwards	Illinois	7	70.0%	.304	.258	95
147	Greg Garbee	Florida	7	70.0%	.299	.241	95
148	Nick Matchen	Illinois	8	80.0%	.184	.172	95
149	Brian Hamilton	Oregon	8	80.0%	.181	.211	95
150	Jessica Fleischer	Illinois	8	80.0%	.166	.186	95
151	Elizabeth Chang	Washington	8	80.0%	.166	.250	95
152	Kyle Morehouse	Connecticut	9	90.0%	.043	.192	95
153	Benjamin Livingston	Minnesota	7	70.0%	.309	.262	94
154	Nate Muckley	Illinois	7	70.0%	.296	.252	94
155	Kenneth Martin	Illinois	7	70.0%	.280	.285	94
156	Kevin McCabe	Colorado	7	70.0%	.275	.275	94
157	Thomas Credeur	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.154	.216	94
158	Andrew Fanko	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.152	.212	94
159	Ben Smith	Canada	8	80.0%	.151	.180	94
160	Alec Chao	District of Columbia	8	80.0%	.151	.222	94
161	Daniel DeFelippis	Europe	8	80.0%	.149	.178	94
162	Will Swygart	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.301	.225	93
163	Erik Nickels	California	7	70.0%	.296	.199	93
164	Jared Cubilla	Canada	7	70.0%	.295	.209	93
165	Spencer Thrope	Middle East	7	70.0%	.290	.210	93
166	Paolo Pasco	California	8	80.0%	.158	.237	93
167	Brian Morehouse	Connecticut	8	80.0%	.150	.171	93
168	Victor Pavao	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.144	.147	93
169	Alexander Bandukwala	Illinois	8	80.0%	.134	.197	93
170	Pranav Veluri	Indiana	6	60.0%	.442	.256	92
171	Kelly Rabin	Washington	7	70.0%	.280	.240	92
172	Jonathan Hunter	Florida	7	70.0%	.251	.250	92
173	Hidehiro Anto	California	8	80.0%	.149	.129	92
174	Will Howells	United Kingdom	8	80.0%	.145	.173	92
175	Zane Placie	Georgia	8	80.0%	.143	.179	92
176	Stephanie Perkins	Missouri	7	70.0%	.246	.260	91
177	Sarah Whisenhunt	Virginia	8	80.0%	.138	.218	91
178	Mindy Wong	New York	8	80.0%	.125	.134	91
179	Matthew Marcus	Oregon	8	80.0%	.124	.127	91
180	Andrew Medlin	Louisiana	8	80.0%	.119	.138	91
181	Akosua Asante	Canada	7	70.0%	.255	.176	90
182	Alex Dzurick	Missouri	7	70.0%	.241	.284	90
183	Matthew Hart	Minnesota	8	80.0%	.120	.178	90
184	Gregory Berman	Illinois	8	80.0%	.114	.222	90
185	Finn Bender	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.379	.255	88
186	Kane Keller	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.211	.276	88
187	Arlo Lyle	Arkansas	8	80.0%	.111	.139	88
188	Rudra Ranganathan	Massachusetts	8	80.0%	.088	.116	88
189	Naveed Chowdhury	California	7	70.0%	.239	.187	87
190	Omar Sajjad	California	7	70.0%	.215	.182	87
191	Jason Lai	New York	7	70.0%	.209	.197	87
192	Andrew Foerster	North Carolina	7	70.0%	.215	.160	86
193	Matt Sandler	Pennsylvania	8	80.0%	.073	.105	86
194	Riley Blair	Missouri	6	60.0%	.356	.256	85
195	David Cruickshank	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.189	.168	85
196	James Washick	South Carolina	6	60.0%	.333	.279	84
197	Joshua Grischow	Ohio	7	70.0%	.199	.186	84
198	Mazin Omer	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.194	.199	84
199	Lars Melton	Virginia	7	70.0%	.183	.199	84
200	Paul Villaluz	Nevada	7	70.0%	.179	.252	84
201	Brandon Jones	Alabama	7	70.0%	.175	.239	84
202	Mya Kelly	Kentucky	6	60.0%	.331	.251	83
203	Aiden Benshimol	Massachusetts	7	70.0%	.182	.238	83
204	Stacy Bridgette	West Virginia	7	70.0%	.169	.255	83
205	Nathan Hamer	United Kingdom	7	70.0%	.162	.196	83
206	Kai Tang	Illinois	6	60.0%	.313	.260	82
207	Siddarth Kumar	Indiana	6	60.0%	.313	.242	82
208	Raul Passement	Texas	6	60.0%	.309	.293	82
209	Tracey Hickman	Oklahoma	6	60.0%	.293	.254	82
210	Matthew Grieco	New York	7	70.0%	.161	.141	82
211	Trevor Greissinger	Wisconsin	7	70.0%	.153	.195	81
212	James Carberry	Louisiana	7	70.0%	.147	.133	81
213	Parth Jagtap	Canada	6	60.0%	.297	.231	80
214	Shauna McNally	Canada	6	60.0%	.288	.271	80
215	Siddharth Hariharan	Maryland	7	70.0%	.136	.217	80
216	Henry Blyth	Ohio	6	60.0%	.289	.269	79
217	Ashwath Seetharaman	Texas	6	60.0%	.277	.283	79
218	Anthony DiCarlo	California	6	60.0%	.276	.235	79
219	Rikiya Cheaves	Florida	6	60.0%	.273	.231	79
220	Amogh Kulkarni	Illinois	6	60.0%	.283	.178	78
221	Michael Joy	Michigan	6	60.0%	.242	.244	77
222	Carl Tjo	California	6	60.0%	.234	.311	77
223	Mike McGraw	Pennsylvania	5	50.0%	.443	.274	76
224	Kenny Peskin	Virginia	6	60.0%	.238	.238	76
225	Chuck Yu	Maryland	6	60.0%	.230	.219	76
226	Jonathan Hugendubler	Maryland	7	70.0%	.082	.124	76
227	Stephen Morrison	Michigan	5	50.0%	.408	.286	75
228	Robert Diethrich	Texas	6	60.0%	.223	.240	75
229	Madeline Painter	Illinois	6	60.0%	.216	.185	75
230	Dana Thurmond	Florida	6	60.0%	.212	.188	75
231	Andrey Goder	California	7	70.0%	.071	.201	75
232	Delano Barnes	Texas	6	60.0%	.235	.172	74
233	Andrew Almas	Canada	6	60.0%	.209	.193	74
234	Brad Williams	Wisconsin	6	60.0%	.201	.218	74
235	Seth Moland-Kovash	Illinois	7	70.0%	.056	.179	74
236	George Atendido	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.392	.245	73
237	Adam Sapa	Canada	6	60.0%	.186	.218	73
238	Kasper Statz	Florida	7	70.0%	.052	.252	73
239	Chauncey Lo	California	5	50.0%	.376	.199	72
240	Mick Reinhard	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.183	.169	72
241	Douglas Wilham	Kentucky	6	60.0%	.183	.200	72
242	Christopher Parsons	Washington	6	60.0%	.170	.220	72
243	Deb Wells	Pennsylvania	6	60.0%	.177	.175	71
244	John Kocsis	Virginia	6	60.0%	.174	.206	71
245	David Snoddon	Canada	6	60.0%	.161	.205	71
246	Lauren Cusitello	California	6	60.0%	.160	.194	71
247	Aaron Lichtig	Maryland	6	60.0%	.161	.133	70
248	Sheldon Wong	Illinois	6	60.0%	.161	.201	70
249	James Denning	Ohio	6	60.0%	.158	.249	70
250	Abel Gilsing	Europe	7	70.0%	.004	.065	70
251	Aaron Bola	New York	5	50.0%	.308	.249	68
252	Daniel Chung	California	5	50.0%	.302	.283	68
253	Joshua Levit	Massachusetts	6	60.0%	.148	.122	68
254	James E. Lasker	Texas	5	50.0%	.316	.306	67
255	Emily Fletcher	Texas	5	50.0%	.311	.237	67
256	Amory Kaufman	Minnesota	6	60.0%	.125	.135	67
257	Natalie Schermer	Washington	5	50.0%	.263	.231	66
258	Nora Denning	Ohio	5	50.0%	.257	.212	65
259	Mike Boone	Ohio	5	50.0%	.254	.217	65
260	Jenn Tulo	Virginia	6	60.0%	.088	.132	65
261	Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh	Minnesota	5	50.0%	.222	.196	62
262	Owen McCoy	Illinois	5	50.0%	.215	.224	62
263	Guan Tong Tay	Asia	6	60.0%	.040	.053	61
264	Louis Johnson	Alabama	4	40.0%	.419	.266	60
265	Haley Gambrell	South Carolina	5	50.0%	.182	.167	60
266	Matthew Hoffer-Hawlik	New York	5	50.0%	.172	.277	60
267	Max Woghiren	Canada	5	50.0%	.169	.204	60
268	Danielle Long	Illinois	5	50.0%	.161	.259	60
269	Mary Foley	Arizona	5	50.0%	.169	.240	59
270	Josh Hill	Arkansas	5	50.0%	.164	.157	58
271	Ewan Munro	Australia & Oceania	5	50.0%	.153	.277	58
272	Ipsita Bhattacharya	Georgia	4	40.0%	.330	.216	57
273	Brock Stephenson	Canada	4	40.0%	.286	.240	54
274	Ross Ferguson	South Carolina	5	50.0%	.097	.216	54
275	Dmitriy Zakharov	District of Columbia	4	40.0%	.214	.179	50
276	Padraig Finan	Washington	4	40.0%	.192	.200	48
277	Dan Ni	New York	4	40.0%	.145	.132	46
278	Myron Meyer	South Dakota	4	40.0%	.123	.248	46
279	Chris McDonald	Florida	4	40.0%	.106	.077	44
280	Jordan Brownstein	Virginia	4	40.0%	.091	.239	42
281	Chris Morin	New York	3	30.0%	.166	.230	35
282	Sharon Kells	Illinois	3	30.0%	.098	.098	33
283	Susan Corbus	Illinois	2	20.0%	.422	.185	30
284	Christopher Harris	Texas	2	20.0%	.081	.167	22

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