Shiva Oswal

Shiva Oswal
Noted subjects	History, Generalist
High school	Pi-oneers (2018 - Present ) Stanford Online (2018 - Present)
Middle school	Pi-oneers (2014 - 2018)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Shiva Oswal (Class of 2022) is a resident of Cupertino, CA, and is an avid Quiz Bowl Player. He has participated in Middle School and High School tournaments at the local, state, and national level. Shiva first started playing Quiz Bowl in 5th grade and quickly developed into one of the nation's strongest, most consistent, and even most feared players in both general quiz bowl and history bowl.

Notable Achievements as an individual

Shiva first entered national prominence when he became the youngest player to be an All Star Player at the 2015 Middle School National Championship Tournament (MSNCT-15). Since then, he has been a National All Star at the MSNCT in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

In January 2017, NAQT began its program of honoring top teams and players each week. As part of this program, Shiva was named the first-ever NAQT Middle School Player of the Week for the week of Jan 7, 2017. Later, Shiva was also named to the National Middle School Quiz Bowl A Team for 2017.

Shiva made history at the 2018 MSNCT when he soloed the MSNCT, suffering his only loss to Midtown Classical in the prelims en route to an unprecedented national championship. Three weeks later, he again created history, leading Pi-oneers to two more solo tournament victories, this time at the ACE Elementary National History Bowl and the National Academic Bowl, respectively, both of which were in Atlanta. He was the National Middle School Player of the Year and Captain of National Middle School A Team for 2018 [[1]].

Shiva after soloing, and winning, 2018 MSNCT! From L-R: NAQT President R. Robert Hentzel, Shiva, and Shiva's father Vikas

After 3 consecutive years of finishing as the runner-up to Robert Muniz in the National History Bee, in 2019, Oswal finally broke through to win the '19 JV History Bee national championship, scoring an impressive 47 points in the final round to hoist the trophy.

Quizbowl / History Bowl career

Team Pi-oneers

Shiva Oswal is the captain of Team Pi-oneers and has participated in over 40 tournaments (with fellow team members Josh Rollin and Dalton Manbeck-Mosig) in the years 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Team Stanford Online

In 2018, Shiva Oswal started playing as a member of Team Stanford Online. Stanford Online (an online school based in the Bay Area) made its debut in the Nor Cal Quiz Bowl circuit in 2018.

Random facts

• He is notable for wearing Crocs at all times.
• He won $250,000 on a 2017 appearance on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? during "Whiz Kids Week".
• Noted for playing a lot of Minecraft.

External links

Quora Account