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 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Vassar A | 11 | 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 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Michigan A | 13 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Columbia A | 14 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | MIT A | 14 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | Berkeley E | 14 | 10 |
| Eli Peterson | Iowa State | Carleton | 16 | 10 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | ESF | 18 | 10 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 18 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | UTD B | 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 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 21 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF A | 21 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 21 | 10 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Amherst B | 24 | -5 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Toronto G | 24 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | Ohio | 26 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Illinois B | 27 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | OSU A | 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 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Georgetown A | 36 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Swarthmore A | 36 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | FSU | 36 | -5 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA D | 37 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 39 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tennessee A | 39 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | North Carolina A | South Carolina A | 39 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia A | 55 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | Melbourne A | 55 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 64 | 10 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Berkeley A | 64 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto E | 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 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown A | 84 | -5 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Tufts B | 84 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | Northwestern B | 86 | -5 |
| Neal Sengupta | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech A | 90 | -5 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | George Washington A | 90 | -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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 102 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto J | 102 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Chicago A | 102 | -5 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Alberta | 102 | 10 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Texas A | 102 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | George Mason A | 103 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto I | 104 | 10 |
| Emmet Ewing | MSU A | Pitt B | 105 | 10 |
| Josh Ipe | Roanoke | Liberty A | 105 | 10 |
| James Windle | Purdue C | Notre Dame C | 105 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Bowdoin A | 112 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Syracuse | 112 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 112 | -5 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Auburn A | 112 | 0 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 112 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Liberty B | 115 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 115 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Georgetown B | 117 | 10 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Virginia Tech B | 117 | 10 |
| Ben Tibbles | Sewanee A | Vanderbilt A | 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 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | BC A | 131 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 131 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 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 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech B | 132 | 0 |
| James Norris | Huntsville B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 10 |