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 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | Berkeley E | 14 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Columbia A | 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 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | ESF | 18 | 10 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 18 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern A | Iowa | 20 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Maryland B | 20 | 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 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | UCLA A | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 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 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | McGill C | 30 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Pitt A | 30 | 10 |
| Jonathan Koehler | UCLA C | Claremont Scripps | 30 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCI | 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 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | British Columbia D | 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Williams | 50 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSB | 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 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | McGill A | 64 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto E | 64 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 64 | 0 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Berkeley A | 64 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 64 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn B | 66 | -5 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri B | 66 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 90 | -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 |
| 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 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Queen's B | 96 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Pitt C | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford 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 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto J | 102 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Alberta | 102 | 10 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Texas A | 102 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 102 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Chicago A | 102 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Auburn A | 112 | 0 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 112 | -5 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 112 | -5 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Syracuse | 112 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Bowdoin A | 112 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 115 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Liberty B | 115 | 10 |
| Ben Tibbles | Sewanee A | Vanderbilt A | 117 | 10 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Virginia Tech B | 117 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Georgetown B | 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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 131 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 131 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | BC 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 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Brown 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 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech B | 132 | 0 |
| James Norris | Huntsville B | Vanderbilt B | 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 |