Chris Ray

Chris Ray
Noted subjects	Japan, candy
Current college	Maryland (2007-)
Past colleges	Arizona State (2007)
High school	Richard Montgomery (2004-2006)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Chris Ray is a graduate of Richard Montgomery High School and a current member of the Maryland Academic Quiz Team. He was the president of the now-defunct Dynasty Academic Competition Questions.

High School

Chris's career at Richard Montgomery was marked by a truly disastrous 1-4 record as a member of Richard Montgomery's first ever D team, as well as numerous other humiliating defeats in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, he led the Richard Montgomery team to an HSNCT championship.

College

Chris's misguided attempt to start a team at Arizona State University resulted in a disastrous trip to attend WIT at Berkeley, in which he convinced three 30somethings to accompany him to Los Angeles, despite the fact that the tournament was in Berkeley (about 7 hours north of Los Angeles), and also on a different weekend. He would soon leave Arizona State.

While at Arizona State he suffered a rather heartbreaking (and scholarship-denying) loss to the esteemed Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering in a game of Intramural CBI. The game was inexplicably filmed and can be seen here under Round 1.

Tournaments

Chris edited the 2006 Richard Montgomery Rumble on the Pike, the first PACE format high school tournament run in over five years. He also co-edited the 2005 RotP.

He organized the DACQ Weekend of Quizbowl which took place on March 15-16, 2008 at George Mason University. Reception was, for the most part, good.

More recently, he's edited two incarnations of TIT.

Playing Style

Chris possesses a notoriously aggravating playing style, particularly for his teammates. In high school, he gained infamy for priming the buzzer beyond reasonable limits, a practice he continues to this day even on ACF Nationals questions. This inadvisable technique notably led to an accidental buzz prior to the question during the 2006 PAC Finals, which Chris successfully blamed on teammate Zach "Klitz" Klitzman's elbow movements and was able to avoid suffering a penalty.

Chris is also known for being a frivolous negger, registering four, five, and six neg games with some regularity.

Tournament Results

Member of the 2006 HSNCT championship Richard Montgomery team, 2007 NAQT DII championship Maryland team and 2008 NAQT DI Championship Maryland team.