Carsten Gehring
| Carsten Gehring | |
| Noted subjects | Mainly Babbitt and Erewhon |
| Current college | Carleton College (2009-) |
| High school | Wayzata High School (2005-2008) |
| Stats | HDWhite • NAQT |
Carsten Gehring is a student at Carleton College and a member of PACE. He has been active in Minnesota quiz bowl since his freshman year of high school. He is well-known on the Minnesota High School section of the Quiz Bowl forum.
College
Carsten successfully managed to get Carleton to begin hosting and attending higher quality tournaments, including several ACF events. Under his tenure, Carleton has also avoided leaving any more tournaments prematurely aside from the 2008 Minnesota Open. He has successfully developed rising Carleton star Frank Firke, among other talented young players.
Packet Writing Experience
- 2008 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament (with Sam Peterson)
- 2008 Chicago Open (with Christian Carter, Quentin Roper, and Guy Tabachnick)
- No Name Tournament (alone but without science)
- 2008 Minnesota Open (with Mike Bentley, Trevor Davis, and Auroni Gupta)
- 2009 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament (partial packet with Frank Firke)
- Post-ICT Guerrilla (with Andrew Hart, Eric Kwartler, and Dan Passner)
High School
Carsten spent his first two years of Quiz Bowl trying to figure out how to play. By his junior year, he attained a spot on his A team on a somewhat random basis, due to people's assumption that he knew literature. The summer after his junior year, he opened himself up to the world of quiz bowl, attending Andrew Hart's summer practices as well as team and multi-team practices. Carsten also went to ACE Quiz Bowl Camp with his teammate Mitu. Here he met Chris Ray, who nearly killed Carsten's hand by giving an hour's worth of notes on Japan in 15 minutes. His senior year, he had a permanent spot on his A team, still due to people's assumption that he knew literature, which was really limited to Babbit and some Vonnegut works.