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 are vulnerable against well-balanced attacks from multiple good players at the highest levels of either high school or collegiate quizbowl, which frequently limits their placement.

High school

This table is a subset of teams which could be considered "one-player" since 2010, under the loose definition of "a single player scoring 2/3 or more of a team's tossup points per game". Entry on this list has been limited to teams that placed in the top 20 at either HSNCT or NSC.

School Players HSNCT NSC
2010 Detroit Country Day Michael Dimattia, Neil Gurram, John Bernabei, Chris Schulte, Aamod Dekhne, Kevin Tan, Hannah Cheriyan 7
2010 Georgetown Day A Matthew Jackson, Oliver Hudson, Alex Jiang 5
2010 St. Ignatius Jake O'Shea, Amy Brabec, Brian Kenny, Vincent Kenny, Andrew Deveau, Michelle Yuen 43 15
2010 Torrey Pines Sharad Vikram, Allison Zhao, Chris Wu, Michelle Chen, Ashley Lo, Stephen Liu, Howon Lee 7
2010 Oak Park-River Forest Greg Ramel, Stephen Skapek, Gennie Stegner-Freitag, Michael Frank, Luke Kahn, Ben Carbery 17
2010 Adair County Jaylyn Bailey, Luke Maupin, Ryan Montgomery, Jake Leibeck 7
2010 St. Anselm's Jacob, Brendan, Aidan, Matt Bollinger 4
2010 Georgetown Day School Casey Ebner, Oliver Hudson, Daniel Branch-Neufeld, Matt Jackson 5
2010 Alpharetta Nandhini Sundaresan, Kunal Naik, Gautam Narula, William Horton 16
2010 Torrey Pines A Chris Wu, Sharad Vikram, Howon Lee, Stephen Liu 7
2010 Walt Whitman Alex Luta, Douglas Graebner, Oren Steinberg, Jeremy Steinberg, Todd Pollak, Alex Rosen 13
2011 Centennial Katherine Cannella, Nikhil Vallabhaneni, Adam Silverman, Jenny C. (?) 5
2011 Copley Jeffrey Wang, Saajid Moyen, Edward Pang, Keval Yerigeri 13
2011 Stevenson Eugene Bulkin, Mark Savin, Kevin Malis, Zach Blumenfeld, Joe Schlude, Collin Shapiro 4
2011 Alpharetta Nandhini Sundaresan, Kunal Naik, Gautam Narula, William Horton 13
2011 St. Anselm Patrick Merkle, Aidan Mehigan, Brendan Ziebarth, Jacob Wasserman 19
2011 St. Ignatius Vicky Del Real, Amy Brabec, John Lotus, Josh Mei, DePaul Ohiri, Andrew Deveau 8
2012 Centennial Chris Olsen, Claire Garland, Will June, Tyler Knoblett, Adam Silverman, Rick Sheahan, Arun Doogar, Nikhil Vallabhaneni, Elliot Campos 102 3
2012 Rockford Auburn Abid Haseeb, Alex Pandya, Lloyd Sy, Filip Milovanovic 5
2012 Ladue A Ben Zhang, Haohang Xu, Max Schindler, Jialin Ding 5
2012 Enloe Ivan Kuznetsov, Natan Holtzman, Vickie Wang, Saideep Gona, Sarah Jewell, Parth Majmudar 8
2012 Warren G. Harding Michael Coates, Joseph Angelo, Sam Eartly, Korey Gall 33 19
2012 New Trier Anne McLaughlin, Michael Goldman, Andrew Wang, Ying Han 18
2012 Carbondale A Michael Steele, Natalie San, Prerak Trivedi, Ben Chametzky 5
2012 St. Anselm's Abbey School Aidan Mehigan, Jacob Wasserman 12
2013 Northmont Johnathan Yagisawa, Helena (?), Sam Blizzard, Tori Amos, Meghan Jenkins, Hao Tran, Erin Laing 21 19
2013 Belvidere North A Conor Reilley, Emily Carrick, Patrick Moore, Dylan Minarik 13
2013 Bellarmine College Prep Ved Paranjpe, Abhishek Aditham, Hiep Nguyen, Sameer Rai, Sohan (?) 8
2013 Athens Academy Jason Fern, Claudia Evaristo, Elyse Paneral, Edward Tie, Timmy Huang 8
2013 East Chapel Hill Salman Iftikhar, Sung-Hoon Kim, Jacob Reed, Matt Dominguez, Alex Li 8
2013 Detroit Country Day David Bernabei, Hunter Wiand, Cody Liu, Anuush Vejalla, Sidharth Chand, Rohan Gurram, Alex McNellen, Siddhant Dogra 13 31
2013 Ladue Ben Zhang, Haohang Xu, Max Schindler, Jialin Ding 1
2013 Belvidere North Conor Riley, Dylan Minarik 19
2013 Thomas Jefferson A Raynor Kuang, Luke Waddell, Nadege Aoki, Sid Verma 7
2014 Western Albemarle Patrick Andrews, Sam Lesemenn, Tim Dodson, Kelly Missett, Eric Xu, Sam Lesemann, Angela Li, Caroline Koester 8 2
2014 Northmont Helena Jenkins, Meghan Jenkins, Sam Blizzard, Kara Combs 7
2014 St. Joseph Dan Blackburn, Jack Mehr, Justin Lin, Greg Burton 19
2015 Northmont Lauren Papp, Rachel Tracy, Sam Blizzard, Brendon Jenkins, Kara Combs 13 12
2015 Western Albemarle Muhannah Hossain, Tim Dodson, Kelly Missett, Eric Xu, Sam Lesemann, Jackson Collins, Caroline Koester 5 5
2015 Harmony Science North Austin Ali Barreh, Brian Nardone, Henry Hawthorn, Peter Wofford 8
2015 Naperville North Brandon Coy, Naman Priyadarshi, Raymond Li, Nishaad Navkal, Amy Tien, Jakob Myers 13
2015 Rancho Bernardo Omar El-Sabrout, HoWon Choo, Kion You, Bryan Ugaz 19
2016 Coronado A Deepak Muthyala, Andrew Barnett, Luke Minton, Sheel Patel 8
2016 Darien A Andrew Benz, Michael Thomas Borecki, Julia Tong, Brendan Berrigan 8
2016 Westview Grace Tran, Jennie Wang, Shivank Nayak, Rahul Keyal, Jonathan Tran, Anish Sathe, Kevin Yu, Jordan Lei 53 14
2016 Rockford Auburn Ethan Strombeck, Cole Timmerwilke, Henry Roe 8
2016 Rancho Bernardo Omar El-Sabrout, Kion You, Howon Choo, Bryan Ugaz 15
2017 Naperville North Jacob Fisher, Shawn Yoshida, Emily Hou, Kelvin Li, Jason Hu, Jakob Myers 3 9
2017 Lehigh Valley Lucas Larkin, Jonathan Skee, Alex Schmidt, Ramon Torres 15
2017 Dublin Scioto High School Clark Smith, Gabriel Pinto, Sanjay Medicherla, Eddy Liu, Enoch Fu 6
2017 La Jolla Shane Pauker, James Malouf, Jennifer Andrey, Sam Kaseff 8
2018 Lehigh Valley Nathaniel Schmidt, Alex Schmidt 12 21
2018 Beavercreek Abby Cohen, Ziyi Zuo, Hari Parameswaran, David Cohen 5 8
2018 Crystal Springs Uplands Partha Rao, Alice Jiang, Justin French, Darren Jian 12 7
2018 Battle Ground Cameron Clark, Max Dambach, Henry Dambach, Jack Lewis 32 16
2018 Miami Valley William Groger, John John Groger 20 34
2018 Dublin Scioto Gabriel Pinto, Clark Smith, Visvam Srinivasan, Edward Liu 2
2018 Downingtown STEM Anish Gadgil, Vishwa Shanmugam, Max Lind, Rohan Vora 18
2019 Rockford Auburn Ethan Strombeck, Justin Abel, Leif Verace, Lilly Chávez 8
2019 James E. Taylor William Golden, Jed Wang, Katie Sturzu, Mitchell Shadden 5 2
2019 Beavercreek Abby Cohen, Tiffany Zhou, Hari Parameswaran, Tegan Kapadia 1 7
2019 Georgetown Day Avani Ahuja, Matthew Siff, Arthur Delot-Vilain, Nathaniel Rosenberg, Alex Moon 31 17
2019 Auburn Lily Chavez, Ethan Strombeck, Justin Abel, Leif Verace 6
2021 Lambert Anish Kayarthodi, Aadi Karthik, Justin Kim, Vishal Sareddy, Arjun Birthi, Adi Krish 19 9
2021 Buffalo Grove Rohan Ganeshan, Sanjay Manoj, Ximena Haramillo Mata, Justin Wytmar, Vishnuh Bala, Bruno Ibrahim Betts 5
2021 Wakeland Geetan Madala, Arnav Kaul, Rajas Ketkar 19

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