Pi-oneers
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Team Pi-oneers or Team Pi-Oneers is a homeschool collective in Cupertino, California. It is coached by Arvinder Oswal. Pi-oneers participated in the MSNCT in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Pi-oneers A tied for 8th at the 2016 MSNCT. Pi-oneers B player Arjun Subramanian was the top All-Star player at MSNCT-16.
In the 2016–2017 season, the Middle School team only had Shiva Oswal and Bilal Ron, but still won the Northern California State Championships. They went on to garner 8th place (again) in the 2017 MSNCT. Meanwhile, high school players Josh Rollin and Dalton Manbeck-Mosig went to the 2017 HSNCT and the 2017 PACE NSC, where they finished 218th and 87th respectively.
The 2017–2018 season saw Oswal, now an 8th grader, post 187 ppg in a Middle School Tournament (playing solo), after Bilal Ron left to found the Gunderson Quiz Bowl Program. Shiva then went on to win the 2018 Middle School National Championship Tournament playing solo, a feat that apparently was unprecedented in quizbowl history prior to that.
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Team Pi-oneers is known for having a friendly local rivalry with Challenger-Ardenwood from 2015-spring 2017 and then BASIS Independent Silicon Valley from fall 2017-2018. It also has a national rivalry with Midtown Classical. In 2018, Josh Rollin was officially promoted to Team Statistician. The team has more or less merged with Stanford Online.
Image
About the image to the right: Three members of Pi-oneers, including Shiva Oswal (center) & Josh Rollin (right), pose with books they won in a competition. Behind them is an image of the famous cover of the Pink Floyd album, The Dark Side of the Moon, depicted in a mural.