Lovel Hearn

Lovel Hearn
Noted subjects	World and European Literature, Femcel Content, Africa Content
Current college	University of Edinburgh (2024—)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Lovel Hearn is an undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh where he has played quizbowl since 2024. Lovel is from Leith in Edinburgh and studies History, although he previously spent years on both a Mathematics degree, and a French degree before deciding to start his university career for a second time.

Lovel considers his specialist subject to be literature written outside of either the UK or the US, and shares a passion for the life and works of Yukio Mishima with his friend and fellow Scot, Liam Daly. On numerous occasions Lovel has claimed: that he has given up on taking quizbowl too seriously; that he has decided he only wants to quiz for fun; and that he only enjoys quizbowl because he likes the sound buzzers make when you press them. These claims have been heavily disputed by independent fact-checkers. Lovel spends his spare time talking drivel over a glass of wine in the Southsider or OX184, acting, and supporting Motherwell Football Club.

Additionally, Lovel procrastinates by writing Edinburgh related articles on the QBWiki, working out how to use the third person, and wondering whether the article he wrote for himself was way too long for an extremely minor figure within the British circuit.

Quizbowl Career

Lovel joined Edinburgh University Quiz Society at the start of his second year of university, and made his tournament debut on Edinburgh B at the 2024 edition of ACF Fall hosted in Durham.

Lovel's next tournament was the UK mirror of 2024's ACF Winter, where Edinburgh finished at the top of the bottom bracket.

In November 2024 Lovel attended British Novice, playing the tournament having failed to sleep at all the night before. Lovel formed an auspicious partnership with fellow Scot Liam Daly on Edinburgh C who finished 3rd and won their first five games in a row. After the tournament Edinburgh C struggled to return home from Manchester due to public transport cancellations in what would become a protracted ordeal. By the time Edinburgh C made it home Lovel had been awake for 45 hours.

In 2025 Lovel played for the only Edinburgh team competing at the UK mirror of PLAYTIME!, finishing in the middle bracket.

Lovel played for Edinburgh A at 2025 Spring Novice in Durham; where he finished as the second highest scorer, behind Edinburgh D's Daniel Bloom. Lovel and Daniel would be joined by Edinburgh C's Ted Harrison in an exhibition final victory over York. This would prove to be that Edinburgh trio's final appearance at a novice tournament.

Lovel was joined on Edinburgh Express by Liam Daly and Arun Uttamchandani for the UK's northern mirror of VAULT hosted in Edinburgh. The team of three, which was composed entirely of Scottish players, finished 4th as Lovel racked up 15 of his team's 21 negs.

In the summer of 2025 Lovel played for Edinburgh B at the UK's mirror of MRNA IV, the team finished at the top of the bottom bracket.

Despite professing to despise trash, Lovel made the journey to Southampton to play the housewritten tournament SOTON TRASH, joining Arun Uttamchandani and Matt McGovern on a team called 'Beware the Ides of Marchmont'.

In November 2025, Lovel and Liam were joined by Pen Hughes on the only Edinburgh team which travelled to Birmingham to play the UK mirror of Scarlet Houseknight. Lovel finished as the tournament's fourth highest scorer, reaching a more modest tally of 12 negs, as the three men from Edinburgh finished top of the second bracket.

One week later, Lovel joined Daniel Bloom, Harry Sexton, and Siddhant Kumar on Edinburgh's B team for the UK mirror of 2025 ACF Winter, hosted at Warwick University. The team went 3-2 in both the prelims and playoffs. Lovel only negged 6 times across the day, as he put his overzealous buzzing ways to bed, and significantly improved on his performance at 2024 ACF Winter.

Question Writing

Lovel has written questions for the 2025 edition of British Novice, and contributed to Edinburgh's packet submissions for ACF Fall, ACF Winter, and ACF Regionals.