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 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 88 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Indiana A | 88 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 110 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 110 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 115 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 116 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton 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 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Vassar A | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | ESF A | 119 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Bristol | 122 | 10 |
| Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Purdue | 125 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Iowa | 126 | -5 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | George Washington A | 127 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Carnegie Mellon B | 127 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Haverford 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 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State A | 133 | 10 |
| Raj Doshi | UCF B | UCF C | 133 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont A | 134 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | ASU | 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 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 134 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |