Waterloo - Revision history

Olin Bose at 21:04, 12 October 2025

2025-10-12T21:04:23Z

Mattias Ehatamm at 15:59, 2 October 2025

2025-10-02T15:59:37Z

Mattias Ehatamm: add player page links

2025-10-02T15:23:40Z

add player page links

Mattias Ehatamm: Update for 2025 Nationals performance, change member list

2025-10-02T15:21:40Z

Update for 2025 Nationals performance, change member list

Olin Bose at 16:36, 10 April 2025

2025-04-10T16:36:04Z

Mattias Ehatamm: Change club history to past tense, remove modern tournament involvement section

2025-04-08T20:03:57Z

Change club history to past tense, remove modern tournament involvement section

Mattias Ehatamm: /* Members */ Shifting current/former members

2025-04-08T19:53:46Z

Members: Shifting current/former members

Jacob Bicol at 21:48, 23 February 2025

2025-02-23T21:48:13Z

Jacob Bicol: added ug nats paragraph

2025-02-23T21:46:56Z

added ug nats paragraph

Jacob Bicol: update some members and titles

2025-02-23T03:53:36Z

update some members and titles

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:04, 12 October 2025
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	[[Category:Canadian universities]]		[[Category:Canadian universities]]
	[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]		[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]
		+	{{ccactive\|2000\|2001}}
		+	{{ccactive\|2008\|2026}}

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 Past:
-*Mattias Ehatamm
+*[[Mattias Ehatamm]]
 *[[Liam Kusalik]]
 *James Ah Yong

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 Present:
 *Miriam Tam
-*Jared He
+*[[Jared He]]
-*Michael Du
+*[[Michael Du]]
-*Caleb Ott
+*[[Caleb Ott]]
-*Micah Colman
+*[[Micah Colman]]
 *Rayton Lin
 *Dawson Teu
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 Past:
 *Mattias Ehatamm
-*Liam Kusalik
+*[[Liam Kusalik]]
 *James Ah Yong
 *Jacob Bicol

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 |Image = Waterloologo.jpg
 |citystate = Waterloo, ON
-|president = Mattias Ehatamm
+|president = Miriam Tam
 |nats = [[2023 ICT|2023 DII ICT]], [[2024 ICT|2024 DII ICT]], [[2025 UCT]]
 | }}
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 In 2024, Waterloo became the first school ever to defend a Division II title, with James Ah Yong, Micah Colman, Jared He, and Caleb Ott defeating Columbia A in the first game of an advantaged final. Two weeks later, Waterloo became the first Canadian school to win an Undergraduate trophy at [[ACF Nationals]], with Du, Ehatamm, He, and Kusalik finishing in 2nd after losing a final to [[Cornell]]. Their T4 finish is also the highest a Canadian team has placed at ACF Nationals.
 Later that year, Waterloo housewrote [[HONK!]], a medium-difficulty pop culture tournament which was head-edited by Jessie Cubilla.
-In 2025, Du, Ehatamm, He, and Kusalik won the first game of an advantaged final against [[Illinois]] to go undefeated at the [[2025 UCT|2025 IQBT Undergraduate Championship]], and won the tournament. This made Waterloo the first Canadian school to win an Undergraduate title. At the 2025 ICT, Waterloo failed to reach top bracket due to being seeded with eventual second-place finishers [[Cornell]], but won the 2nd-place undergraduate title nonetheless.
+In 2025, Du, Ehatamm, He, and Kusalik won the first game of an advantaged final against [[Illinois]] to go undefeated at the [[2025 UCT|2025 IQBT Undergraduate Championship]], and won the tournament. This made Waterloo the first Canadian school to win an Undergraduate title. At the 2025 ICT, Waterloo failed to reach top bracket due to being seeded with eventual second-place finishers [[Cornell]], but won the 2nd-place undergraduate title nonetheless. At 2025 ACF Nationals, Waterloo qualified two teams, with Waterloo A making top bracket and defeating eventual champions Stanford for a 9th place finish. They finally played Toronto A in the first all-Canadian top bracket nationals game in recent memory, but were dealt a humiliating 140-375 loss.
 ==Members==
 Present:
 *Miriam Tam
 *Jared He
 *Michael Du
 *Caleb Ott
 *Micah Colman
 *Rayton Lin
 *Dawson Teu
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 Past:
 *Thomas Mennill
 *Jessie Cubilla

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 |year = [[2023 ICT|2023]], [[2024 ICT|2024]]
 |previous = [[Yale]]
-|next = TBD
+|next = [[Harvard]]
 | }}

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 ==Modern history (2008-Present)==
-Recently, Waterloo has re-emerged as an actual Quizbowl Club, due in no small part to Eric Monkman, who attended Waterloo as a freshman in 2006-07.   Since the Fall of 2008, the club has been led each term by either Jeffrey Baer, Aaron Dos Remedios or Monkman himself.  This has led to an attempt to get the university involved in more traditional Quizbowl events, mainly through the Canadian Quizbowl circuit.
+Recently, Waterloo has re-emerged as an actual Quizbowl Club, due in no small part to Eric Monkman, who attended Waterloo as a freshman in 2006-07.   From 2008-2013, the club was led each term by either Jeffrey Baer, Aaron Dos Remedios or Monkman himself.  This has led to an attempt to get the university involved in more traditional Quizbowl events, mainly through the Canadian Quizbowl circuit.
-Typically, the club is made up almost entirely of mathematics or engineering students.  This has generally led to Waterloo teams being weak in areas such as history and linguistics.  Exceptions to this include Rebecca Heersink, Sean Nauth and perhaps Monkman himself (a mathematical physicist), but non-mathematicians/engineers in the Waterloo Quizbowl club are few and far between.
+Waterloo competed for the first time since 2001 at Ontario Bowl in October, 2007; the team finished in the middle of the pack.  In 2009, Waterloo, along with nearby [[Wilfrid Laurier]] University, hosted the Canada [[Sectionals|SCT]].
 In 2023, the Waterloo team of Michael Du, Mattias Ehatamm, Liam Kusalik, and Gaian Valdegamo became the first Canadian team to win the DII [[ICT]], beating [[Rutgers]] B 400-380 in the second game of an advantaged final. After going undefeated in their prelim bracket, the Waterloo team had lunch at Panda Express, where Michael received a fortune cookie stating "soon you will get the recognition you deserve."
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 Later that year, Waterloo housewrote [[HONK!]], a medium-difficulty pop culture tournament which was head-edited by Jessie Cubilla.
-In 2025, Du, Ehatamm, He, and Kusalik won the first game of an advantaged final against [[Illinois]] to go undefeated at the [[2025 UCT|2025 IQBT Undergraduate Championship]], and won the tournament. This made Waterloo the first Canadian school to win an Undergraduate title.
+In 2025, Du, Ehatamm, He, and Kusalik won the first game of an advantaged final against [[Illinois]] to go undefeated at the [[2025 UCT|2025 IQBT Undergraduate Championship]], and won the tournament. This made Waterloo the first Canadian school to win an Undergraduate title. At the 2025 ICT, Waterloo failed to reach top bracket due to being seeded with eventual second-place finishers [[Cornell]], but won the 2nd-place undergraduate title nonetheless.
 ==Members==

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 *Gaian Valdegamo
 *Jared He
 *Michael Du
 *Caleb Ott
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 *Dawson Teu
 *Xavier Spano
 Past:
 *Jessie Cubilla
 *Zachary Bernstein
 *Christine Irwin