Nationals Ironman

Above: A photo of the first gathering of Ironmen in 2018. From left to right: Mike Sorice, Andrew Wang, Ophir Lifshitz, Auroni Gupta, Dylan Minarik, Tejas Raje, Alex Damisch, Rob Carson, Erik Nelson

A Quizbowl Nationals Ironman is an accomplishment devised by Alex Damisch in 2018 to celebrate people who staffed too many national championships.

Definition

In order to be an Ironman, someone has to play, staff, or attend each one of the following national tournaments in the same competition year:

• ICT/IPNCT
• ACF Nationals
• SSNCT
• MSNCT
• HSNCT
• PACE NSC

No substitutions may be made for any other tournaments occurring on the same weekend.

Double Ironman

A Double Ironman is achieved by qualifying for a Nationals Ironman, and also writing or editing at least one question for each tournament.

List of Ironmen, 2018-

• Tomás Aguilar-Fraga (2026)
• Casey Bindas (2024, 2025)
• Rob Carson (2018, 2019*, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Alex Damisch (2018, 2019)
• Andrew Feist (2019)
• Auroni Gupta (2018, 2019*)
• Ophir Lifshitz (2018, 2019)
• Dylan Minarik (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Erik Nelson (2018)
• Dan Ni (2026)
• Tejas Raje (2018)
• Arthur Ramsay (2026)
• Ramapriya Rangaraju (2019)
• Hazel Singh (2026)
• Mike Sorice (2018, 2019)
• Bernadette Spencer (2019, 2022)
• Andrew Wang (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Matt Weiner (2026)
• Harry White (2019)
• Joel Miles (2023, 2024, 2025)
• Josh Xiong (2023)

(asterisks indicate Double Ironman status)