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 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 88 | -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 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | WashU A | 89 | -5 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge D | 100 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Case Western A | 100 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU B | 100 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | BU | 100 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | Maryland B | 106 | 10 |
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Georgetown A | 106 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 106 | -5 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 110 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 110 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 115 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 116 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | John Jay College | 116 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 116 | -5 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 116 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown A | 116 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT A | 116 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Florida A | Florida State A | 118 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 119 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 119 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | NYU C | 119 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Oxford B | 119 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Warwick B | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Vassar A | 119 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 119 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Kenyon | 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 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Bristol | 122 | 10 |
| Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Purdue | 125 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Iowa | 126 | -5 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Haverford B | 127 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Carnegie Mellon 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 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Southampton B | 132 | 10 |
| Sanika Iyer | Indiana B | Chicago D | 132 | 10 |
| Raj Doshi | UCF B | UCF C | 133 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State A | 133 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont A | 134 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 134 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | George Washington 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 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | ASU | 134 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech B | 134 | 0 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech C | 134 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan State | 134 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Illinois A | 134 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Winona State | 134 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 134 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Harvard B | 134 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 134 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Binghamton A | 134 | 10 |