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{{Infobox|Name = Andrew Yaphe
|Image = yaphe.JPG
|schoolpast = [[Virginia]] (1995-1998), [[Chicago]] (1999-2007), [[Stanford]] (2008-2010)
|highschool = [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]] (1991-1994)
|firstname = Andrew
|lastname = Yaphe
}}
'''Andrew Yaphe''' was a collegiate quiz bowl player. As an undergraduate student, he attended the [[University of Virginia]] and played for its quiz bowl team. Subsequently, he enrolled in a doctoral program in English at the [[University of Chicago]] and played for its team; he then went to [[Stanford]] for law school, receiving his J.D. in 2010.

==Career==
Yaphe is widely considered the best player in the history of collegiate quizbowl, being the leading scorer on 6 ACF Nationals championship teams, 2 NAQT ICT Division I championship teams, and two NAQT ICT Division I runner-up teams. He also won a College Bowl title and was reportedly a very good high school player, though a paucity of records on high school quizbowl from that time precludes any further judgment.

As an undergrad at Virginia, Yaphe was on the championship teams at the [[1997 ACF Nationals|1997]] and [[1998 ACF Nationals]].

Immediately after becoming a member of Chicago, he won the [[1999 ACF Nationals|1999]] and [[2000 ACF Nationals]], only ending this four-year streak of championships by choosing to edit the [[2001 ACF Nationals]]; he then won the [[2004 ACF Nationals]]. Yaphe also won the [[1999 ICT|1999]] and [[2001 ICT]] and placed second at the [[2000 ICT|2000]] and [[2005 ICT]].

Yaphe's run at Stanford may perhaps be his most impressive. During a period of greatly reduced activity, Yaphe led a team to a third place finish at the [[2009 ACF Nationals]] and then a first place finish at the [[2010 ACF Nationals]].

Most importantly, Yaphe was the driving force in keeping [[ACF]] alive from 1997 onwards, and edited such tournaments as the [[2000 ACF Regionals]] and [[2005 ACF Nationals|2005]] and [[2006 ACF Nationals]]. His recent role as NAQT editor has been a more complex phenomenon. Yaphe has been heavily involved in the writing and editing of NAQT's college tournaments (especially [[ICT]]) since 2010.

Yaphe was prominently featured in the 1999 New York Times [[1999 "Total Recall" article|"Total Recall" article]], which included [[Chicago|The University of Chicago's]] winning of the 1999 Midwest [[SCT]].

{{Succession_box_(Carper)
|year = 2007
|previous = [[R. Robert Hentzel]]
|next = [[Chris Sewell]]
}}
{{Succession_box_(Individual)|Individual Honor = [[ACF|ACF Nationals Leading Scorer]]
|year = 1996
|previous = [[Tom Waters]]
|next = [[John Sheahan]]
}}
{{Succession_box_(Individual)|Individual Honor = [[ACF|ACF Nationals Leading Scorer]]
|year = 1998, 1999, 2000
|previous = [[John Sheahan]]
|next = [[John Kenney]]
}}
{{Succession_box_(Individual)|Individual Honor = [[ACF|ACF Nationals Leading Scorer]]
|year = 2009, 2010
|previous = [[Mike Sorice]]
|next = [[Matt Bollinger]]
}}
{{Succession_box_(Individual)|Individual Honor = [[ICT|ICT DI Leading Scorer]]
|year = 2000, 2001
|previous = [[John Sheahan]]
|next = [[Matt Weiner]]
}}

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