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 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Illinois C | 60 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Cambridge B | Imperial B | 60 | 10 |
| Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Case Western A | 61 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 61 | 10 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 61 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | George Washington B | 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 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 73 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Kenyon | 78 | 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 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Oxford B | 78 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois B | 79 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 79 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 79 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Iowa | 79 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 79 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 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 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 86 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 86 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Virginia A | 86 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Haverford B | 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 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 89 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 89 | -5 |
| Connor Ronan | South Carolina | UNC C | 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 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 110 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida State A | 110 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Wisconsin 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | South Carolina | 119 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago B | 119 | 10 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 119 | 0 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame A | 119 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 119 | 0 |