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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | UTD A | 9 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 9 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | OSU D | 9 | 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 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | MSU B | 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 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 18 | 10 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | ESF | 18 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Maryland B | 20 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern A | Iowa | 20 | 10 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | UCLA A | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 21 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 21 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF A | 21 | 10 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 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 |
| Jonathan Koehler | UCLA C | Claremont Scripps | 30 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCI | 30 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Pitt A | 30 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Georgetown A | 36 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | FSU | 36 | -5 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Swarthmore 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 |
| 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 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | McGill A | 64 | 10 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Berkeley A | 64 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto E | 64 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 64 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Johns Hopkins A | 69 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 69 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Brandeis Orlando | 77 | -5 |
| Owen Feng | Vanderbilt B | Huntsville B | 79 | -5 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Harvard | 80 | -5 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown A | 84 | -5 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Tufts B | 84 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | Northwestern B | 86 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Texas B | 90 | 10 |
| Kad Daniels | Huntsville A | Alabama B | 90 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | UF D | 90 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley F | 92 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Queen's B | 96 | 10 |
| Swapneel Mandal | UAB A | Bruin A | 96 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | William Woods | 96 | -5 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Pitt C | 96 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Alberta | 102 | 10 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Texas A | 102 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto J | 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 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins C | 105 | -5 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Carleton | 105 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | UF E | 105 | -5 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Louisville A | 105 | -5 |
| Emmet Ewing | MSU A | Pitt B | 105 | 10 |
| Josh Ipe | Roanoke | Liberty A | 105 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina B | 109 | -5 |
| Pallas Allen | USF | FIU | 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 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 112 | -5 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | Tulsa | 125 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | MIT B | 125 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Indiana B | 128 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 131 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | BC A | 131 | 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 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech B | 132 | 0 |
| James Norris | Huntsville B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | ERAU A | 132 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UCF A | 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 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 132 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty C | 132 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | North Carolina A | 132 | 10 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Yale A | 132 | 0 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 132 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Brown C | 132 | 10 |