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