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 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | George Washington B | 61 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Chicago C | 61 | -5 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | John Jay College | 61 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Yale A | 61 | 10 |
| Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Case Western A | 61 | -5 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 61 | 10 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 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 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 73 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Cornell B | 73 | -5 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 73 | -5 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 73 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Oxford B | 78 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU B | WashU A | 78 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Kenyon | 78 | 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 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 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 |
| 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 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Haverford B | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 86 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 86 | 10 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 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 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 89 | 10 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 89 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 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 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 110 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida State A | 110 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 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 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 119 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | LSE | 119 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Imperial A | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Rutgers A | 119 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 119 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago B | 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 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 119 | 0 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 119 | 0 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame A | 119 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech D | 119 | 0 |