Harvard is a large private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It participates in ACF, mACF, and NAQT tournaments.
History
Jeff Johnson led Harvard to a series of successes in the second half of the nineties, retiring after their 3rd and 2nd place finishes in the 1997 ICT and ACF tournaments.
Harvard performed the notable feat of qualifying three teams for the 2000 NAQT ICT at nearby BU with a total of five players. (Harvard hosted the SCT and had very few people available). Two of the teams consisted of Jeff Johnson and Vik Vaz playing solo.
The club was quite large, sending as many as seven teams to local tournaments through the end of the nineties. A preciptious decline followed.
Vik Vaz, Dan Suzman, Jim Davis, and Frank Kelly won the ICT undergrad title in 2003. Harvard (Dan Suzman, Paco Brito, Jim Davis) returned to the undergrad final in 2004 before falling to Illinois. The same year, Harvard's Division II team (Sarah Watson, Noam Lerer, Eric Nielsen, Alexandra Helprin) finished third after losing in a tiebreaker. Harvard (Dan Suzman, Frank Kelly, Will Rooke) took third in the undergraduate division in 2005 after losing a tiebreaker to Carlton. In 2006, Harvard again qualified one undergrad team, which registered but couldn't be bothered to show up. People were rightfully pretty angry.
But Harvard's all-freshman Division II team that year (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Sam Lederer, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) came on their own and took second place after falling to Stanford in the final. In 2007, Harvard's all-sophomore team (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Julia Schlozman, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) placed second after losing to Carlton in the undergraduate final. As juniors, that same team won the Undergraduate title at the 2008 ICT. In 2009, a Harvard undergraduate team consisting of Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Ted Gioia, Andy Watkins, and Dallas Simons defeated Minnesota in a tight two-game final to repeat as ICT undergraduate champions, also finishing in third place overall. The team of Andy Watkins, Dallas Simons, Dennis Sun, and Bruce Arthur followed this up with a DI win in 2010; while Watkins, Simons, Ted Gioia, and Stephen Liu won Division I again over Minnesota in 2011.
Tournaments
In addition to occasionally hosting ACF or NAQT tournaments, Harvard runs an annual high school tournament, the Harvard Fall Tournament. Under Andy's leadership, the team hosted two packet-submission regular-difficulty T-Party events and two housewritten nationals-difficulty Harvard Internationals.
Media Attention
In late 2008, the Harvard quizbowl team became the center of two articles by student journalist Christian B. Flow, who practiced and traveled with the team for a number of weeks. These articles were extremely well received by the Quiz Bowl community.
Former Players
Current Players
Title Succession
College Bowl Title Succession
Unofficial title succession
External Links
Official Website
