One-person teams

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 fit this criteria while placing 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	9
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
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