In quinoa, class-1 HKT proteins load this element into bladder cells. Variations in hydrogen concentration in the brain cause acid-sensing pH sensor proteins to mainly transport this element. Paralytic shellfish poisoning occurs when alkaloids like saxitoxin block the transport of this element. A symporter of glucose and this element called SGLT2 is found in proximal tubules. Subunits of proteins that conduct this element contain six transmembrane passes and are voltage-gated. An ion of this element enters neurons during action potential firing. Blockers for this element’s channels can be used to treat arrhythmia. Hydrolysis of ATP pumps three atoms of this element out of cells against potassium. For 10 points, name this element found alongside chloride in table salt. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 67.40 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 94.67 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 58% | 95.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 98.57 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 91.43 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 89.80 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 64% | 96.64 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.20 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.25 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 101.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 42% | 88.42 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 86.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 96.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Toronto B | 22 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF A | 38 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 41 | 10 |
| Stanley Lam | McMaster B | Toronto K | 41 | -5 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Queen's B | 41 | -5 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | ESF | 41 | -5 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 41 | -5 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 41 | -5 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | NYU A | 41 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 43 | -5 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Rose State | 43 | -5 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Virginia B | 45 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto G | 45 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 47 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | UCSC | 48 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 48 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 48 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 48 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Maryland A | 48 | -5 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | Pitt A | 49 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Alberta | 49 | 10 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Columbia B | 49 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers B | 49 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU B | 50 | -5 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | MIT A | 50 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 50 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill C | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | VCU A | 50 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 50 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | BC B | 53 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia A | Simon Fraser | 53 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Williams | 55 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU C | 55 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Ohio | 58 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | North Carolina A | 62 | -5 |
| Aditya Koushik | Stanford C | Stanford A | 69 | -5 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 69 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri B | 69 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 69 | 10 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 70 | -5 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA A | 74 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Iowa State | 74 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 76 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD A | 76 | -5 |
| Connor Farquhar | Amherst A | Dartmouth | 77 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | OSU C | 78 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | South Carolina B | 78 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | ERAU A | 78 | -5 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | FSU | 78 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | Melbourne A | 78 | -5 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | Washington B | 78 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 79 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 79 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | OSU D | 79 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 79 | -5 |
| Kathryn Tran | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 79 | -5 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington A | 79 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 79 | -5 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | CWRU C | 80 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | OSU A | 80 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Roanoke | 80 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | MIT B | 80 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 80 | -5 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 80 | 10 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | UF D | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 80 | -5 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Rochester | 80 | -5 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | Toronto C | 80 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Notre Dame E | 80 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Maryland D | 80 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Washington A | 80 | -5 |
| Elias Ziyadeh | Penn A | Georgetown A | 80 | -5 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 81 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | McGill D | 81 | -5 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Binghamton A | 81 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's A | 81 | 10 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Toronto D | 86 | -5 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU D | 87 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | George Washington B | 90 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Lloyd George | 92 | -5 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Toronto Metropolitan | 100 | -5 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Brown B | 103 | 10 |
| Ann Sha | UMBC A | George Mason A | 104 | -5 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Clemson B | 105 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty A | 105 | 10 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Liberty C | 105 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 105 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brown C | 105 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 105 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF B | 105 | -5 |
| Dominik Polley | Carleton | St. Thomas | 105 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Carleton | 105 | -5 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Penn B | 105 | 10 |
| Neiv Sinha | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 105 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF E | 106 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 107 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Clemson A | 108 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 108 | 10 |
| Owen Steele | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 108 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | Texas A | 109 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA C | 111 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 111 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 113 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State | Tennessee B | 113 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | USF | 114 | 10 |
| Ben Weng | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 116 | 10 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | NYU B | 117 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 118 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | Pitt C | 118 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | CWRU B | 118 | 10 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 118 | 10 |
| Vikram Rajmohan | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 118 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brandeis Wilson | 118 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 118 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 118 | 10 |
| Jeremy Kim | Toronto K | McMaster B | 118 | 10 |
| Simon Choist | Queen's B | Waterloo | 118 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | Melbourne B | 118 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | ERAU B | 118 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | UCF B | 118 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | William Woods | 118 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Minnesota A | 118 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Nebraska | 118 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Iowa | 118 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 118 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | UCO | 118 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 118 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 118 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Guelph A | 118 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McMaster C | 118 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Ottawa | 118 | 0 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Guelph B | 118 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McGill A | 118 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 118 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 118 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 118 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn A | 118 | 10 |