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 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Indiana A | 88 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 88 | 10 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 88 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech A | 88 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | WashU A | 89 | -5 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Case Western A | 100 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU B | 100 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge D | 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 110 | 10 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 110 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown A | 116 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT 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 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Missoui S&T | 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 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 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 |
| 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 |
| Sanika Iyer | Indiana B | Chicago D | 132 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Durham | 132 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Southampton B | 132 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 132 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State A | 133 | 10 |
| Raj Doshi | UCF B | UCF C | 133 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan State | 134 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Illinois A | 134 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | George Washington B | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Binghamton A | 134 | 10 |