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 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 61 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Chicago C | 61 | -5 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | George Washington B | 61 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | UBC | 63 | 10 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | ASU | 63 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Dartmouth A | 63 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | Brandeis A | 67 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Bristol | 72 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 73 | -5 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 73 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Cornell B | 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 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Kenyon | 78 | 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 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 79 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois B | 79 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 79 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 79 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 79 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Iowa | 79 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT B | Cornell D | 81 | -5 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge C | Durham | 82 | 10 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 86 | 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 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Liberty C | 88 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 88 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 89 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech D | 119 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 119 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | LSE | 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 |
| 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 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 119 | 10 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 119 | 0 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame A | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 119 | 0 |