UC Berkeley

Berkeley
Location: Berkeley, CA
National championships	2003 ACF; 2004 NAQT ICT Division I, 2006 NAQT ICT Division I, 2016 NAQT ICT Undergraduate, 2003 NAQT ICT Division II
NAQT Page	link

The University of California, Berkeley, also known as UC Berkeley, Cal, or simply Berkeley, is a large public university in Berkeley, California. After a period of dominance in the mid-2000s led by then-graduate student Jeff Hoppes and then-undergraduate Seth Teitler, the team contracted for several years until its more recent renaissance in the early 2010s. In the 2015-16 year, the Berkeley team was one of the largest (if not the largest) college quizbowl club of all time, and was semi-frequently able to field a J-team at events in its area [1].

The Berkeley A and B teams have also been regular top-bracket finishers at ACF Nationals in the late 2010s, and the A team finished 2nd at the 2018 ICT, losing to Yale in the second game of an advantaged final where they had the disadvantage.

Tournaments

Berkeley frequently hosts NAQT tournaments, and has run the Western Invitational Tournament in the fall in previous years and in the spring of 2013. They also host the Cal Classic for high school teams. Since 2012-2013, Berkeley has hosted a yearly series of four HS tournaments called the California Cup.

Current Members

• James Malouf
• Michael Coates
• Shahar Schwartz
• Annie Wang

Former/Inactive Players

• Rahul Keyal
• Jonchee Kao
• Aseem Keyal
• Eric Chen
• Justin Nghiem
• Rohin Devanathan
• John Xiang
• Bruce Lou
• Sameer Rai
• Niki Peters
• Ankit Aggarwal
• Lukas Vlahos
• Ilyas Bayramov
• John Gleb
• Derek Chou
• Nicholas Karas
• Andy Nguy
• Ashley Gonik
• Arbong Lei
• Di Xiao
• Darwin Wu
• Kabir Chandrasekar
• Anthony Kao
• Joseph Benapfl
• Neal Nathan
• Sharad Vikram
• Vivek Bhave
• Jeffrey Li
• Terry Drinkwater
• Tanay Kothari
• Brian Alford
• Sam Braunfeld
• Yifan Zhang
• Gilbert Hsyu
• David Ding
• Brett Hallahan
• Elise Burton
• Paul Lujan
• Juliana Froggatt
• Jeff Hoppes
• Jerry Vinokurov
• Ray Luo
• Brendan Shapiro
• Kenny Easwaran
• Salpi Vartivarian
• Steven Pham
• Kevin Alford
• Jenny Tan
• Johnny Hwang
• Ruwani Ekanayake
• Larry Wang
• Nandan Keshav
• Kaushik Iyer
• Sam Braunfeld
• Jessica Luk
• Thomas Lydston
• Jeffrey Li
• Yogesh Raut
• Freddy Gonzales
• Paul Reverdy
• Ashley Chow
• Martha Matsumoto
• Lev Trubov
• David Farris
• Nick Meyer
• Matt Levine
• Chris Nguyen
• Seth Teitler
• Steve Kaplan
• Yi Zhang
• Larissa Kelly
• Eok Ngo
• Devang Parekh
• Stephen Lee
• Miguel Ruiz
• Andy Penner
• Gaius Stern
• Jon Pennington
• Ross Ritterman

ACF Nationals Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Michigan	2003	Chicago

NAQT ICT Division I Overall Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Chicago	2004	Michigan

NAQT ICT Division I Overall Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Michigan	2006	Chicago

NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Yale	2003	UCLA

External Links

The Berkeley quiz bowl site

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