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| − | "Crazy" '''Andy Watkins''' played quizbowl for [[Harvard]]. He is known as a prolific question writer and poster on [[hsquizbowl.org]], and for writing really hard science questions. He was the leading scorer on the Harvard B/D2 team at both the [[2008 ICT|NAQT ICT]] and [[2008 ACF Nationals|ACF Nationals]] in his freshman year, and lead his team to a victories at the [[2010 ICT]] and the [[2011 ICT]]. He was a member of [[PACE]] and chief editor of the [[2011 NSC]], after which he resigned.
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| − | Andy is married to [[Hannah Kirsch]].
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| − | ==High School Career==
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| − | Andy was on a [[Shady Side]] team that impressed many for its ambition when it attended the 2006 [[ECSO]]; this was before the time when elite high school players became regular attendees at college-level events.
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| − | ==Editing Career==
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| − | Andy was a member of the editorial staff for the following tournaments:
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| − | * [[Harvard Fall Tournament]] (several incarnations)
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| − | * [[Harvard T-Party]] 2008 and 2010
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| − | * [[Harvard International]] 1 and 2
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| − | * [[VETO]]
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| − | * [[FIST]]
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| − | * [[PACE NSC]] 2010 (science) and 2011 (chief editor)
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| − | In addition, Andy helped finish the chemistry for [[Lederberg Memorial Science|Lederberg]] based on answers already selected (thus saving the tournament) and [[2011 ACF Regionals]].
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| − | ==Controversial philosophy==
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| − | Andy has been accused of platonic idealism for reasons unclear.
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| − | Andy's philosophy on studying for quizbowl is that you need to study really obscure things to beat good players to good questions. Therefore, much of his knowledge base is actually stuff that rarely comes up. This has also led to Andy's reputation as among the worst judges of difficulty appropriateness among active writers of good questions.
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| − | (The above is better put forth as "you need to spend a lot of time learning early clues, even at the expense of spending as much time learning late clues," which sounds a lot less silly and better resembles his original exposition of this principle.)
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| − | (Andy does, however, believe that having written too-hard high school questions, reasonable regular difficulty questions, and too-hard nationals-level questions has given him better canon sense and despite his bizarre and mostly ineffective studying strategies, he'll be able to write good questions for future tournaments: see for example his difficulty-appropriate material for HAVOC.)
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| − | == Notable Tournaments ==
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| − | *[[2011 ICT]] - 1st place (with [[Dallas Simons]], [[Stephen Liu]], and [[Ted Gioia]])
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| − | *[[2011 ACF Nationals]] - 8th place (with [[Dallas Simons]], [[Ted Gioia]], and [[Stephen Liu]])
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| − | *[[2010 ICT]] - 1st place (with [[Dallas Simons]], [[Bruce Arthur]], and [[Dennis Sun]])
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| − | *[[2010 ACF Nationals]] - Top bracket (with [[Dallas Simons]])
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| − | *[[2010 Penn Bowl]] - 1st place (with [[Dallas Simons]], [[Ted Gioia]], and [[Bruce Arthur]])
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| − | *[[2009 ACF Regionals]] - 1st place (with [[Dallas Simons]], [[Ted Gioia]], and [[Bruce Arthur]])
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| − | *[[2008 ACF Fall]] - 2nd place (with [[Dallas Simons]] and [[Dennis Sun]])
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| − | *[[EFT|EFT4]] - 2nd place (with [[Bruce Arthur]])
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| − | *[[EFT|EFT3]] - 1st place (with [[Bruce Arthur]] and [[Julia Schlozman]])
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