Description acceptable. A variant of this tradition that places its central figure as the highest of the “fourteen gods” was founded in the same region as an ancient site associated with this tradition, Unakoti. This tradition historically developed from two paths, the “outer path” and the “path of mantras.” Lakulisha (“luh-koo-LEE-shuh”) founded a variant of this tradition whose adherents engage in odd behavior to attract public disapproval, called the Pāshupata (“PAH-shoo-puh-tuh”) school. It’s not bhakti (“BUCK-tee”), but the Tirumurai hymns were composed by 63 saints of this tradition known as the Nayanars. Adherents of this tradition wear the tripundra, which consists of three [emphasize] horizontal lines of ash on the forehead. This tradition’s central figure is represented by a pillar-like symbol called a lingam. For 10 points, name this tradition that worships the “Destroyer” of the Hindu Trimurti. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 108.33 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.67 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 119.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 108.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 129.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 115.50 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 120.25 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 100% | 134.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 75% | 118.67 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.30 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 116.63 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 72 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Missouri | 75 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Iowa State | 80 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech A | 88 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Indiana A | 88 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 88 | 10 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 88 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | WashU A | 89 | -5 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | BU | 100 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU B | 100 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Case Western A | 100 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge D | 100 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Columbia C | 101 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan D | 101 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Tufts A | 102 | 10 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford A | 103 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Oxford C | 105 | 10 |
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Georgetown A | 106 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 106 | -5 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | Maryland B | 106 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 110 | 10 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 110 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 115 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 116 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT A | 116 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 116 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown A | 116 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 116 | -5 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | John Jay College | 116 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Florida A | Florida State A | 118 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Kenyon | 119 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 119 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | NYU C | 119 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Oxford B | 119 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Warwick B | 119 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Missoui S&T | 119 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 119 | -5 |
| Vivian Lu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | ESF A | 119 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 119 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Vassar A | 119 | 10 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Bristol | 122 | 10 |
| Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Purdue | 125 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Iowa | 126 | -5 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Carnegie Mellon B | 127 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Haverford B | 127 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | George Washington A | 127 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Columbia B | 129 | -5 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 132 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Durham | 132 | 10 |
| Sanika Iyer | Indiana B | Chicago D | 132 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Southampton B | 132 | 10 |
| Raj Doshi | UCF B | UCF C | 133 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State A | 133 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Illinois A | 134 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Harvard B | 134 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Northwestern A | 134 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 134 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Notre Dame A | 134 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech B | 134 | 0 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech C | 134 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | George Washington B | 134 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Winona State | 134 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 134 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Binghamton A | 134 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont A | 134 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan State | 134 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 134 | 0 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | ASU | 134 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 134 | 10 |