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 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 61 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | George Washington B | 61 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | ASU | 63 | 10 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | UBC | 63 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | Brandeis A | 67 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Bristol | 72 | 10 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 73 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 73 | -5 |
| 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 |
| June Yin | WashU B | WashU A | 78 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Kenyon | 78 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Oxford B | 78 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 79 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 79 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 79 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois B | 79 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Iowa | 79 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 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 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 86 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Haverford B | 86 | 10 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 86 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Virginia A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Chicago D | 89 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida State A | 110 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 110 | -5 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 110 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 119 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech D | 119 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 119 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Imperial A | 119 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 119 | 0 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago B | 119 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Chicago A | 119 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Illinois A | 119 | 10 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 119 | 0 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame A | 119 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | LSE | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Rutgers A | 119 | 10 |