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 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 9 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | UTD A | 9 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | MSU B | 11 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | RIT A | 11 | 10 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 11 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Vassar A | 11 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Michigan A | 13 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | MIT A | 14 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | Berkeley E | 14 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Columbia 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 |
| 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 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 21 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF 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 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Pitt A | 30 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | McGill C | 30 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | FSU | 36 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Georgetown A | 36 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Swarthmore A | 36 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA D | 37 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU C | 39 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU B | 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 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 39 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Rowan A | 39 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Indiana A | 39 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Catholic University | 40 | -5 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Michigan C | 41 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Notre Dame A | 41 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 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 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto E | 64 | 10 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Berkeley A | 64 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 64 | 10 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | McGill A | 64 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 64 | 0 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri B | 66 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn B | 66 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Tufts B | 84 | -5 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown A | 84 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | Northwestern B | 86 | -5 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | George Washington A | 90 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Texas B | 90 | 10 |
| Neal Sengupta | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech A | 90 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 90 | -5 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | UF D | 90 | 10 |
| Kad Daniels | Huntsville A | Alabama B | 90 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley F | 92 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | William Woods | 96 | -5 |
| Swapneel Mandal | UAB A | Bruin A | 96 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 96 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Pitt C | 96 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Queen's B | 96 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | North Carolina C | 101 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Lehigh B | 101 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 102 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto J | 102 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Alberta | 102 | 10 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Texas A | 102 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 102 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Chicago A | 102 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Carleton | 105 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | UF E | 105 | -5 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Michigan D | 108 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 108 | -5 |
| Pallas Allen | USF | FIU | 109 | -5 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina B | 109 | -5 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown B | 111 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 112 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Bowdoin A | 112 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Syracuse | 112 | 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 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Liberty B | 115 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 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 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | UIC | 118 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago D | Notre Dame D | 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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 131 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | BC A | 131 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | ERAU A | 132 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 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 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | SIUE | 132 | 0 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Brown C | 132 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech B | 132 | 0 |
| James Norris | Huntsville B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty C | 132 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | North Carolina A | 132 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 132 | 10 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Yale A | 132 | 0 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 132 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UCF A | 132 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Illinois A | 132 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 132 | 10 |