The final name in this game’s credits is Seth Goldman, who designed a secret boss who blocks the path to Nyleth’s shrine. In this game, the disgraced Lugoli attacks the player by flinging green balls of muckmaggots with a ladle. The Extricator is used to remove the “Twisted Bud” that parasitizes this game’s protagonist, who must seek out Dr. Yarnaby in Greymoor to remove it. In this game’s true ending, the player character uses the Everbloom to descend into the Abyss to free Lost Lace from the hold of the Void with the aid of her half-sibling, the protagonist of a 2017 Metroidvania set in Hallownest. For 10 points, Hornet is the protagonist of what long-awaited Team Cherry game, which was unexpectedly released in September 2025 as the sequel to Hollow Knight? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 76.20 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 45.00 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 73.25 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 67% | 101.40 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 48.43 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 94.90 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 87.30 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40.20 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 43.67 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 83.50 |
| North | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 96.78 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 56.13 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 63% | 106.17 |
| UK | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 9.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 38.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | OSU D | 9 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | UTD A | 9 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 9 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | MSU B | 11 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Vassar A | 11 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | RIT A | 11 | 10 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 11 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Michigan A | 13 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Columbia A | 14 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | Berkeley E | 14 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | MIT A | 14 | 10 |
| Eli Peterson | Iowa State | Carleton | 16 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | UTD B | 18 | 10 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 18 | 10 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | ESF | 18 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern A | Iowa | 20 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Maryland B | 20 | 10 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | UCLA A | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 21 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF A | 21 | 10 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 21 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 21 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Toronto G | 24 | 10 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Amherst B | 24 | -5 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | Ohio | 26 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | OSU A | 27 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Illinois B | 27 | 10 |
| Jonathan Koehler | UCLA C | Claremont Scripps | 30 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCI | 30 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | McGill C | 30 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Pitt A | 30 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | FSU | 36 | -5 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Swarthmore A | 36 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Georgetown A | 36 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA D | 37 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 39 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Rowan A | 39 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU C | 39 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU B | 39 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Indiana A | 39 | 10 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | British Columbia D | 39 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tennessee A | 39 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | North Carolina A | South Carolina A | 39 | -5 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Catholic University | 40 | -5 |
| Richard Lin | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 41 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Michigan C | 41 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Notre Dame A | 41 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech D | 43 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCLA B | 44 | -5 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | Johns Hopkins B | 46 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSB | 50 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Williams | 50 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | WashU D | 53 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | Melbourne A | 55 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia A | 55 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Maryland A | 58 | 10 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | Rose State | 59 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | Kenyon A | 61 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | BC B | 63 | -5 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Berkeley A | 64 | 10 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | McGill A | 64 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 64 | 0 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto E | 64 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 64 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri B | 66 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn B | 66 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 69 | -5 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Johns Hopkins A | 69 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Brandeis Orlando | 77 | -5 |
| Owen Feng | Vanderbilt B | Huntsville B | 79 | -5 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Harvard | 80 | -5 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Tufts B | 84 | -5 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown A | 84 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | Northwestern B | 86 | -5 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | UF D | 90 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Texas B | 90 | 10 |
| Kad Daniels | Huntsville A | Alabama B | 90 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 90 | -5 |
| Neal Sengupta | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech A | 90 | -5 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | George Washington A | 90 | -5 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley F | 92 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 96 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Queen's B | 96 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Pitt C | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | William Woods | 96 | -5 |
| Swapneel Mandal | UAB A | Bruin A | 96 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Lehigh B | 101 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | North Carolina C | 101 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 102 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Chicago A | 102 | -5 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Alberta | 102 | 10 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Texas A | 102 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto J | 102 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 102 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | George Mason A | 103 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto I | 104 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | UF E | 105 | -5 |
| Emmet Ewing | MSU A | Pitt B | 105 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Carleton | 105 | 10 |
| Josh Ipe | Roanoke | Liberty A | 105 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins C | 105 | -5 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Louisville A | 105 | -5 |
| James Windle | Purdue C | Notre Dame C | 105 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 108 | -5 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Michigan D | 108 | 10 |
| Pallas Allen | USF | FIU | 109 | -5 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina B | 109 | -5 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown B | 111 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | McMaster A | 112 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 112 | -5 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Auburn A | 112 | 0 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Bowdoin A | 112 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 112 | -5 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Syracuse | 112 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Liberty B | 115 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 115 | 10 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Virginia Tech B | 117 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Georgetown B | 117 | 10 |
| Ben Tibbles | Sewanee A | Vanderbilt A | 117 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago D | Notre Dame D | 118 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | UIC | 118 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | McMaster B | 121 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Georgia Tech A | 124 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | MIT B | 125 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | Tulsa | 125 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Indiana B | 128 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 131 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | BC A | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 131 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | ERAU A | 132 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UCF A | 132 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 132 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty C | 132 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | SIUE | 132 | 0 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Illinois A | 132 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 132 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Brown C | 132 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | North Carolina A | 132 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 132 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason A | George Washington B | 132 | 10 |
| Brody Davidow | George Washington A | Maryland D | 132 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | UMBC A | 132 | 10 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Yale A | 132 | 0 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 132 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech B | 132 | 0 |
| James Norris | Huntsville B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 10 |