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 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | RIT A | 53 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 53 | -5 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | UCF B | 57 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Illinois C | 60 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Cambridge B | Imperial B | 60 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Chicago C | 61 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 61 | 10 |
| Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Case Western A | 61 | -5 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 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 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 73 | -5 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 73 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Cornell B | 73 | -5 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | NYU A | 73 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 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 |
| June Yin | WashU B | WashU A | 78 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Oxford B | 78 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Kenyon | 78 | 10 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan C | Michigan D | 78 | -5 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois B | 79 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 79 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 79 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 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 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT B | Cornell D | 81 | -5 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge C | Durham | 82 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Haverford B | 86 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 86 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Virginia A | 86 | 10 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 86 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 86 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Liberty C | 88 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 88 | -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 |
| Connor Ronan | South Carolina | UNC C | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Imperial A | 119 | 10 |
| Cole Polley | Michigan D | Michigan C | 119 | 0 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | South Carolina | 119 | 10 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 119 | 0 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame A | 119 | 10 |