Samin Asif

Samin Asif
High school	Seven Lakes
HSQB profile	giantsfan1
Pronouns	he/him
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Samin Asif is a player for Seven Lakes High School, class of 2027. He previously played for Beckendorff Junior High School.

Leaking Incident

In 2026, Samin was involved in a major quizbowl misconduct incident related to set security violations. While writing for MONSTER, he accessed and read questions from the set a public Discord server prior to its release, prompting reports to the Quizbowl Misconduct Committee and subsequent sanctions from NAQT. Following these sanctions, Asif escalated the situation by sending messages to an editor threatening to leak the set unless unspecified demands were met within three days. He additionally accused other writers on the set of similar violations of question security publicly (with no cause).

After the set team took steps to protect the material, including pursuing copyright registration and issuing a formal warning, Asif further escalated by leaking a separate set, HISTONE, which he had head-edited and which was scheduled to be mirrored by other teams (including by Eric Mukherjee's USN team - Samin posting the set publicly was in direct response to Eric's email warning against further leaking). This action disrupted planned tournaments and caused financial, logistical,and emotional harm to hosts and collaborators. The incident drew widespread condemnation within the quizbowl community and led to additional reports to governing bodies and school officials. Samin subsequently posted a self-serving apology, which was mostly rejected by the community.