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 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge D | 100 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU B | 100 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Case Western A | 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 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 106 | -5 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | Maryland B | 106 | 10 |
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Georgetown 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 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT A | 116 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 116 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | John Jay College | 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 |
| Biniam Alaro | Florida A | Florida State A | 118 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 119 | 10 |
| Vivian Lu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 119 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 119 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 119 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Missoui S&T | 119 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 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 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Vassar A | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | ESF A | 119 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Kenyon | 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 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | George Washington A | 127 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Carnegie Mellon B | 127 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Columbia B | 129 | -5 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Southampton B | 132 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 132 | 10 |
| Sanika Iyer | Indiana B | Chicago D | 132 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Durham | 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 |
| 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 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Illinois A | 134 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Winona State | 134 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 134 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 134 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Binghamton A | 134 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan State | 134 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Harvard B | 134 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 134 | 0 |
| 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 |