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 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Case Western A | 100 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge D | 100 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU B | 100 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | BU | 100 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan D | 101 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Columbia C | 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 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 106 | -5 |
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Georgetown A | 106 | -5 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | Maryland B | 106 | 10 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 110 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 110 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 115 | -5 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 116 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 116 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | John Jay College | 116 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT A | 116 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown A | 116 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 116 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 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 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Vassar A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan State | 134 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech B | 134 | 0 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech C | 134 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 134 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont 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 |
| 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 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | George Washington B | 134 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Binghamton A | 134 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Illinois A | 134 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 134 | 0 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | ASU | 134 | 10 |