A “Record” of this good was written by the creator of a “dragon tribute” type of it, the famous calligrapher Cai Xiang (“tsai sh’YAHNG”). A network of trade routes known as the “Southern Silk Road” was named for horses and this good. Emperor Huizong (“hway-dzong”) of Song wrote an influential “Grand Treatise” on this good, in which he laid out criteria for “competitions” focused on this good. The Rinzai monk Eisai (“AY-sigh”) is said to have introduced this good to Japan from China, whose ritualized preparation of it is known as gongfu. Lu Tingcan wrote a “sequel” to a “Classic” about this good by Lu Yu, which details its mythical discovery by Shennong after looking into his pot of water. For 10 points, in China and Japan, what drink is presented in elaborate namesake ceremonies? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.33 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.83 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 80.17 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 100.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 57.80 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 111.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 110.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 55.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.60 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 82.75 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 39 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Maryland B | 39 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 39 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Dartmouth A | 39 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | Florida State A | 39 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Brandeis A | 39 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Harvard B | 39 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 39 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | George Washington A | 39 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Indiana B | 41 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Tufts A | 41 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | UMass Boston | 41 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield | Imperial B | 42 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE | Oxford C | 43 | 10 |
| Ben Sterling | Yale A | NYU B | 44 | -5 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Chicago C | 51 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame A | 56 | -5 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU A | Missoui S&T | 57 | -5 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 63 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina | 66 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago A | 67 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | NYU C | 67 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU B | 70 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland A | 78 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | Claremont A | 78 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Carleton | 78 | -5 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 78 | -5 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell C | 78 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Notre Dame B | 81 | 10 |
| Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | WashU A | 81 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Warwick A | 81 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Wake Forest | 83 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Oxford A | 83 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Valencia A | 83 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Winona State | 83 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Durham | 83 | 10 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Iowa | 85 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | George Washington B | 85 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 86 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 86 | 10 |
| Chris Scheri | RIT A | ESF A | 86 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Cambridge D | 86 | 10 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | UNC B | 87 | 10 |
| Grant Avis | Louisville A | Alabama A | 87 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 87 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 87 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | NYU A | 87 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Texas A | 89 | 10 |
| Gabe Dubowski | Illinois B | Chicago D | 92 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | William & Mary | 94 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Vassar A | 95 | 10 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | Liberty C | 108 | 10 |
| Avery Barnett | Haverford A | Columbia C | 108 | 10 |
| Raj Doshi | UCF B | UCF C | 110 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Northwestern A | 111 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 113 | 10 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Purdue | 127 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Illinois C | 130 | 10 |
| Freddie O'Hara | UCLA | UCSD | 130 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 131 | 10 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Notre Dame C | 131 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Stanford B | 131 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Minnesota B | 131 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | BU | 131 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 131 | 0 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Yale A | 131 | 10 |