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 |
| 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 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Chicago C | 61 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 73 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Cornell B | 73 | -5 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | NYU A | 73 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 73 | -5 |
| 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 |
| June Yin | WashU B | WashU A | 78 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Oxford B | 78 | 10 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan C | Michigan D | 78 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 79 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Iowa | 79 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 79 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 79 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois B | 79 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 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 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Virginia A | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 86 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Haverford B | 86 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Ohio State 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 110 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | South Carolina | 119 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 119 | 0 |
| Cole Polley | Michigan D | Michigan C | 119 | 0 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Imperial A | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Rutgers A | 119 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Chicago A | 119 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Illinois A | 119 | 10 |