A result about these locations relies on an equation relating the divergence of a congruence and the Raychaudhuri scalar, which is assumed to be non-negative under either the “null energy” or “strong energy” conditions. Supercritical topological defects called cosmic strings may result in the “conical” type of these locations. The Eddington–Finkelstein and Kruskal–Szekeres transformations can remove a “false” one of these locations. These locations are characterized by “incomplete” geodesics according to the Penrose–Hawking theorem. So-called “naked” examples of these locations are not enclosed by an event horizon and are theorized to not exist by the cosmic censorship hypothesis. For 10 points, name these locations in space where gravitational effects are infinite, such as in the center of black holes. ■END■
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 83.50 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 84.75 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 83.40 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 95.67 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 90.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.20 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 75.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 71.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 75% | 104.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 81.40 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.38 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 69.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Northwestern A | 23 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Warwick A | 45 | -5 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | UNC D | 48 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Sheffield | 52 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 53 | -5 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | RIT A | 53 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | UCF B | 57 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Cambridge B | Imperial B | 60 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Illinois C | 60 | 10 |
| Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Case Western A | 61 | -5 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Chicago C | 61 | -5 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 61 | 10 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 61 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | George Washington B | 61 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | John Jay College | 61 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Yale A | 61 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Dartmouth A | 63 | 10 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | UBC | 63 | 10 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | ASU | 63 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | Brandeis A | 67 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Bristol | 72 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 73 | -5 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 73 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 73 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Cornell B | 73 | -5 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | NYU A | 73 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Harvard A | 74 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | NYU C | 75 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 76 | 10 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan C | Michigan D | 78 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Kenyon | 78 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU B | WashU A | 78 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Oxford B | 78 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois B | 79 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 79 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 79 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Iowa | 79 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 79 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 79 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 79 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT B | Cornell D | 81 | -5 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge C | Durham | 82 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 86 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Virginia A | 86 | 10 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 86 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Haverford B | 86 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 86 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Liberty C | 88 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 88 | -5 |
| Connor Ronan | South Carolina | UNC C | 89 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Chicago D | 89 | -5 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 89 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 89 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 89 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame B | Georgetown A | 91 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 92 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Florida B | 97 | -5 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Columbia C | 107 | -5 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 110 | -5 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 110 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida State A | 110 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech B | 114 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF C | 115 | -5 |
| Cole Polley | Michigan D | Michigan C | 119 | 0 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | South Carolina | 119 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago B | 119 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech D | 119 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 119 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Chicago A | 119 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Illinois A | 119 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 119 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | LSE | 119 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Imperial A | 119 | 10 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 119 | 0 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame A | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Rutgers A | 119 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 119 | 0 |