Dissociation of disclinations are used to model these phenomena in KTHNY theory. Above the upper critical dimension, these phenomena belong to the same universality class predicted by mean-field theory. An argument using the favorability of spontaneously forming domain walls was used by Rudolph Peierls (“PIE-erls”) to prove one of these phenomena exists in two dimensions or higher for a certain lattice model. Landau theory classifies these phenomena into first- or second-order based on whether the change in their order parameter is discontinuous. These phenomena include the shift between paramagnetic and ferromagnetic ordering at the Curie point. On pressure–temperature diagrams, these events are represented by crossing a coexistence curve. For 10 points, name these phenomena in which a material changes between different states of matter. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 67.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 88.91 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 57% | 110.33 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.70 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 101.40 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.60 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 103.75 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 67.60 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 90.58 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.50 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.75 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.50 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 87.38 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 73.17 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 23 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown B | 24 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford C | Berkeley D | 27 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 28 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSB | 30 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | Chicago B | 48 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 49 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto E | 52 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Pitt C | 53 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago C | 53 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Bowdoin B | 55 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Auburn B | 55 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 58 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | McMaster C | 60 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF E | 60 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCLA C | 61 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | Kenyon A | 61 | -5 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Purdue B | 62 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern C | 62 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford A | 63 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 65 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia A | 65 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 65 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU B | 66 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCI | 67 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | British Columbia B | 67 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 67 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto J | 69 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina A | 69 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Penn A | 69 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | UCO | 69 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 70 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh A | 70 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Notre Dame A | 70 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Michigan D | 70 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | NC State | 72 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 72 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | MIT B | 73 | 10 |
| Jeevika Setzer | Johns Hopkins B | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Ohio | 74 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Guelph A | 80 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Georgetown A | 80 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Truman State | 80 | -5 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McGill C | 85 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale B | Brandeis Wilson | 85 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Iowa | 85 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | UTD B | 86 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley B | 87 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Amherst A | 87 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brandeis Orlando | 87 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Texas B | 87 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 89 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU B | 90 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | Notre Dame E | 90 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Kentucky | 90 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 90 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | WashU C | 92 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 93 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Columbia B | 94 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | McMaster B | 97 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | Pitt B | 97 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | UIC | 98 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | Alberta | 99 | 10 |
| Jaiden Li | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Pitzer | 101 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto F | 101 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 101 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | NYU B | 101 | 10 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Lehigh B | 101 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto G | 102 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Michigan C | 102 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Vanderbilt B | 102 | 10 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Berkeley A | 103 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | UCF B | 103 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Vassar A | 103 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | William Woods | 103 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Huntsville A | 103 | -5 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Queen's B | 104 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Carleton | 105 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers C | 105 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | UF D | 106 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | OSU A | 106 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | UMBC A | 106 | -5 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Notre Dame D | 106 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Tufts B | 106 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Northwestern B | 106 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Binghamton A | 106 | 10 |
| Rohan Vittal | Brown A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 107 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Amherst B | 109 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 111 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | USC | 112 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | Liberty A | 112 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 112 | 10 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | Maryland D | 115 | -5 |
| Abby Lindley | MSU B | CWRU B | 117 | -5 |
| Nick Fowler | Virginia B | North Carolina C | 117 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Macalester B | 117 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | CWRU D | 118 | -5 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina B | 118 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Carleton | 118 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 119 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 119 | 10 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | Ottawa | 120 | -5 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | George Mason C | 120 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Binghamton B | 120 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 122 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Liberty C | 122 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Liberty B | 122 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | George Washington B | 122 | 10 |
| Kennedy Gallaher | Notre Dame C | Purdue C | 122 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | BC A | 122 | 10 |
| Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Sewanee A | 122 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Syracuse | 122 | 10 |
| Owen Riviere | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 123 | 0 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Toronto I | 123 | 10 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 123 | 0 |
| Kathleen Perez | ERAU B | FSU | 123 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | ERAU A | 123 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | CWRU A | 123 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | OSU D | 123 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | MSU B | 123 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | OSU C | 123 | 0 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Catholic University | 123 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | George Washington A | 123 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | Missouri B | 123 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU C | 123 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Illinois A | 123 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | BC B | 123 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | Rose State | 123 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Alabama B | 123 | 10 |