One-person teams

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A one-person team (or one-man team) is a team with multiple players on it whose fate is perceived to be entirely tied to the scoring abilities of a single player. Literal "one-person" teams are typically referred to as solo instead.

The term is both laudatory and derisive - while it celebrates the skill of the "one-person" in question, it minimizes the contributions of their teammates (which are often significant) and carries with it the implication that the "one-person" is succeeding in part because of their lack of support. Because of the derogatory connotations, and especially the implied insult to the teammates of the "one-person," it is not a good idea to use this term in reference to any team in your tournament when you are the TD or moderator.

Examples

One-person teams are frequently successful at the local high school level and occasionally competitive nationally. They usually cannot succeed against well-balanced attacks from multiple good players at the highest levels of either high school or collegiate quizbowl. No one-person team has ever won a high school national, but one has one a collegiate national.

High school

This table is a subset of teams which could be considered "one-player" under a loose definition of a single player getting roughly 50% more op. Entry on this list has been limited to teams which placed at least top 20 in either HSNCT and NSC and

School Players HSNCT NSC
2010 St. Anselm's Aidan, Brendan, Jacob, Matt Bollinger 4th
2010 Detroit County Day Aamod Dekhne, Chris Schulte, Hannah Cheriyan, John Bernabei, Kevin Tan, Michael Dimattia, Neil Gurram t-7th
2010 Georgetown Day Alex Jiang, Matthew Jackson, Oliver Hudson t-5th t-5th
2010 Torrey Pines Allison Zhao, Ashley Lo, Chris Wu, Howon Lee, Michelle Chen, Sharad Vikram, Stephen Liu t-7th 7th
2010 Alpharetta Gautam Narula, Kunal Naik, Nandhini Sundaresan, William Horton t-16th
2010 Walt Whitman Alex Luta, Alex Rosen, Douglas Graebner, Jeremy Steinberg, Oren Steinberg, Todd Pollak 13th
2010 St. Ignatius Amy Brabec, Andrew Deveau, Brian Kenny, Jake O'Shea, Michelle Yuen, Vincent Kenny t-43rd 15th
2010 Northmont Brandon Williams, Dan Welch, Emmanuel Boakye, Emily Bingham, Michael Czupryn, Sam Blizzard t-75th 19th
2010 Stevenson Julia Wang, Kevin Malis, Mark Savin, Zach Blumenfeld 8th
2011 Centennial Adam Silverman, Jenny C., Katherine Cannella, Nikhil Vallabhaneni t-5th
2011 Copley Edward Pang, Jeffrey Wang, Keval Yerigeri, Saajid Moyen t-13th
2011 Stevenson Collin Shapiro, Eugene Bulkin, Joe Schlude, Kevin Malis, Mark Savin, Zach Blumenfeld 4th
2011 Alpharetta Gautam Narula, Kunal Naik, Nandhini Sundaresan, William Horton 13th
2011 St. Anselm Aidan Mehigan, Brendan Ziebarth, Jacob Wasserman, Patrick Merkle 19th
2011 [[Maggie Walker
2012 Centennial Adam Silverman, Claire Garland, Nikhil Vallabhaneni, Will June 4th
2012 Auburn Abid Haseeb, Alex Pandya, Filip Milovanovic, Lloyd Sy t-5th
2012 Ladue Ben Zhang, Haohang Xu, Jialin Ding, Max Schindler t-5th
2013 Belvidere North Conor Reilley, Dylan Minarik, Emily Carrick, Patrick Moore t-13th
2013 Loyola Academy Ian Torres, Morgan Venkus, Zach Hayes 3rd
2013 Bellarmine Abhishek Aditham, Hiep Nguyen, Sameer Rai, Sohan, Ved Paranjpe t-8th
2013 Athens Academy Claudia Evaristo, Edward Tie, Elyse Paneral, Jason Fern, Timmy Huang t-8th
2013 Ladue Ben Zhang, Haohang Xu, Jialin Ding, Max Schindler 2nd
2013 East Chapel Hill Alex Li, Jacob Reed, Matt Dominguez, Salman Iftikhar, Sung-Hoon Kim t-8th
2014 Western Albemarle Angela Li, Caroline Koester, Eric Xu, Kelly Missett, Sam Lesemann t-8th
2015 Harmony Science Academy Ali Barreh, Brian Nardone, Henry Hawthorn, Peter Wofford t-8th
2015 Naperville North Amy Tien, Brandon Coy, Jakob Myers, Naman Priyadarshi, Nishaad Navkal, Raymond Li t-13th
2015 Western Albemarle Caroline Koester, Eric Xu, Kelly Missett, Sam Lesemann, Tim Dodson t-5th 5th
2015 Northmont Brendon Jenkins, Kara Combs, Lauren Papp, Rachel Tracy, Sam Blizzard t-13th 12th
2016 Auburn Cole Timmerwilke, Ethan Strombeck, Henry Roe t-6th
2016 Stevenson Ali Saeed, Kazuma Shimanaka, Nathan Cha, Young Fenimore Lee t-13th
2016 Coronado Andrew Barnett, Deepak Muthyala, Luke Minton, Sheel Patel t-8th
2016 Darien Andrew Benz, Brendan Berrigan, Julia Tong, Michael Borecki t-8th
2016 Taylor Ashwath Seetharaman, Eric Liu, Jacob Redland, Joseph Kusko, Oishik Saha, William Golden t-13th
2017 Taylor Ashwath Seetharaman, Jacob Redland, Joseph Kusko, Oishik Saha, William Golden t-5th
2017 Naperville North Emily Hou, Jacob Fisher, Jakob Myers, Jason Hu, Shawn Yoshida 3rd
2017 Lehigh Valley Alex Schmidt, Jonathan Skee, Lucas Larkin, Ramon Torres t-15th
2018 Lehigh Valley Alex Schmidt, Nathaniel Schmidt t-12th
2018 Beavercreek Abby Cohen, David Cohen, Hari Parameswaran, Ziyi Zuo t-5th
2018 Crystal Springs Alice Jiang, Darren Jian, Justine French, Partha Rao t-12th
2018 Miami Valley John John Groger, William Groger t-20th
2018 Dublin Scioto Clark Smith, Edward Liu, Gabriel Pinto, Visvam Srinivasan 2nd
2018 Taylor Ashwath Seetharaman, Jacob Redland, Joseph Kusko, William Golden t-5th 4th
2019 Taylor Jed Wang, Katie Sturzu, Mitchell Shadden, William Golden t-5th 2nd
2019 Auburn Ethan Strombeck, Justin Abel, Leif Verace, Lilly Chavez t-8th
2019 Beavercreek Abby Cohen, Hari Parameswaran, Tiffany Zhou, Tegan Kapadia 1st
2019 Troy Alexander Borca-Tasciuc, Alexander Pyle, Kemal Pulungan, Rufus Hahn Nguyen-McDowell, Xavier Schlemmer t-12th
2019 Barrington Cecily Rea, Christina Curran, Daniel Sheinberg, Douglas Meeker t-12th
2019 Thomas Jefferson (VA) Benjamin Xu, Fred Zhang, James Kuang, Julia Zhou, Kevin Wang (TJ) t-5th
2021 Arcadia Amogh Kulkarni (Arcadia), Brian Lam, Michael Kwok, Ryan Sun t-5th
2021 Lambert Aadi Karthik, Adi Krish, Anish Kayarthodi, Arjun Birthi, Vishal Sareddy t-19th
2021 Buffalo Grove Bruno Ibrahim Betts, Justin Wytmar, Rohan Ganeshan, Sanjay Manoj, Vashnuh Bala, Ximena Haramillo Mata t-5th
2021 Justin Wakeland Arnav Kaul, Geetan Madala, Rajas Ketkar t-19th

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