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■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 38.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 9.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 73.25 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 67% | 101.40 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 48.43 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 94.90 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 87.30 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40.20 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 43.67 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 76.20 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 83.50 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 96.78 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 56.13 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 63% | 106.17 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 45.00 |
| 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 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 11 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | RIT A | 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 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 18 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | UTD B | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | McGill C | 30 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Pitt A | 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 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 39 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | North Carolina A | South Carolina A | 39 | -5 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tennessee A | 39 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Rowan A | 39 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU B | 39 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU C | 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 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Notre Dame A | 41 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Michigan C | 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 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Berkeley A | 64 | 10 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | McGill 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 |
| 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 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 90 | -5 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | UF D | 90 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley F | 92 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 96 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Queen's B | 96 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Pitt 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 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto J | 102 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Chicago A | 102 | -5 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 102 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Carleton | 105 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | UF E | 105 | -5 |
| Emmet Ewing | MSU A | Pitt B | 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 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 112 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Bowdoin A | 112 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Auburn A | 112 | 0 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 112 | -5 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Syracuse | 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 |
| 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 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | BC A | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB 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 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | North Carolina A | 132 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 132 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | UMBC A | 132 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason A | George Washington B | 132 | 10 |
| Brody Davidow | George Washington A | Maryland D | 132 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | SIUE | 132 | 0 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 132 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Illinois A | 132 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Brown C | 132 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 132 | 10 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Yale A | 132 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech B | 132 | 0 |
| James Norris | Huntsville B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 10 |