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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| 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 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | George Washington A | 39 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 39 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Dartmouth A | 39 | 10 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 39 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 39 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Maryland B | 39 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | UMass Boston | 41 | -5 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Tufts A | 41 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Indiana B | 41 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | NYU C | 67 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago A | 67 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU B | 70 | 10 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell C | 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 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland A | 78 | 10 |
| Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | WashU A | 81 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Notre Dame B | 81 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Warwick A | 81 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Valencia A | 83 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Durham | 83 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Winona State | 83 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Wake Forest | 83 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Oxford A | 83 | 10 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Iowa | 85 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | George Washington B | 85 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Cambridge D | 86 | 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 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | NYU A | 87 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 87 | 10 |
| Grant Avis | Louisville A | Alabama A | 87 | 10 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | UNC B | 87 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 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 |
| Freddie O'Hara | UCLA | UCSD | 130 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Illinois C | 130 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | BU | 131 | 10 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Notre Dame C | 131 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Stanford B | 131 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Yale A | 131 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Minnesota B | 131 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 131 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 131 | 0 |