Difference between revisions of "Moses Kitakule"

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Moses Kitakule
Noted subjects	Literature, Christianity, Africa, soccer
Current college	Yale (2015-2019)
Past colleges	none
High school	Episcopal School of Acadiana (2011-2015)
Middle school	Episcopal School of Acadiana (2009-2011)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Moses Kitakule played several years of bad quizbowl for Episcopal School of Acadiana in Louisiana before coming to Yale, where he was a key player on the team that won the Division I overall title at the 2019 ICT. He served as president of Yale Student Academic competitions from 2017–18.

Known for his dedication to the Old Testament, Moses is currently working with Harvard's Jon Suh on JaMES, a tossups-only side event of Bible questions.

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 |Subjects = Literature, Christianity, Africa, soccer
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+|schoolcur = [[Yale]] (2015-2019)
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 |highschool = Episcopal School of Acadiana (2011-2015)
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-==Career==
+'''Moses Kitakule''' played several years of bad quizbowl for Episcopal School of Acadiana in Louisiana before coming to Yale, where he was a key player on the team that won the Division I overall title at the [[2019 ICT]]. He served as president of Yale Student Academic competitions from 2017–18.
-Moses, one of the few active black players in the collegiate quiz-bowl world, currently plays for Yale University. He is currently working with [[Harvard]] player [[Jon Suh]] on [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=350162#p350162 JaMES], a tossups-only side event of Bible questions.
+Known for his dedication to the Old Testament, Moses is currently working with [[Harvard]]'s [[Jon Suh]] on [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=350162#p350162 JaMES], a tossups-only side event of Bible questions.
-===ESA===
-Moses started his career playing LAAC, a format of [[bad quizbowl]]. He led ESA B in scoring in his first foray into pyramidal quiz-bowl, the 2011 Righteous Justice tournament. This was followed by a drought of nearly three years, before two more tournaments during his senior year. On ESA A, he generally functioned as a second scorer to generalist Sam Hebert, but outscored him in prelims at his final NAQT high school tournament, the 2015 Louisiana State Championship.
-===Yale===
-====2015-17====
-Moses was shocked to discover just how relatively behind Louisiana quiz-bowlers was when he joined Yale quiz-bowl; nevertheless, he resolved to get better. He was aided by [[Jacob Reed]]'s helpful tips and resources and by an introduction to the Mnemosyne flash-carding program by [[Adam S. Fine]], who had used this method to become a "master of organic chemistry." Moses replaced [[Connor Wood]] on the Yale DII team when the latter quit, and after a surprisingly [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/player.jsp?team_member_id=312963 decent] performance at SCT, was designated as the team's literature player. Unfortunately, the team gave a disappointing [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/team.jsp?team_id=96771 sixth-place] performance at 2016 ICT, but Moses once again surprised by finishing as second scorer. During his sophomore year he was once again on Yale B, this time with [[Laurence Li]], [[James Wedgwood]], and [[Anand Nanduri]], but the four never actually played a tournament together as a full team.
-====2017-18====
-For a third time, Moses found himself on Yale B. Moses has repeatedly stated that this team, of all the teams he has played with, was his favourite. Fine arts/philosophy/literature player [[James Wedgwood]], classics/A.E. Housman player [[Michael Kearney]], and science/literature player [[Hasna Karim]] made up the rest of the team. Despite the shadowing effect caused by three additional literature players, Moses managed to emerge as the consistent top scorer on a team for the first time (mainly by vulching as much as he could). At [[2018 ACF Regionals]], Yale B failed to qualify via A-Value but managed to pull off one of the greatest upsets of all time, defeating an essentially full-strength [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4916/stats/combined_%28w_finals%29/teamdetail/#t13 Columbia A]. Due to outside circumstances, Moses (and subsequently Yale B) underperformed significantly at [[2018 ICT]]. Yale B was denied one last hurrah at ACF Nationals because [[Isaac Kirk-Davidoff]] unexpectedly dropped, forcing Moses up to the A-team at very short notice. He was unable to adequately fill the gap left by IKD so the favourites finished in a disappointing 3rd place.
-====2018-19====
-In his final year, Moses was promoted to the A-team full-time, making it the first time since 11th grade that he was operating as a fourth-scorer. He got the year off to a good start, contributing a solid 20 PPG while legends Jacob Reed and [[Stephen Eltinge]] broke the [[Hoppes-Mikanowski limit]] on the way to an emphatic victory at Penn Bowl.
-==Best Tournament Performances==
-* [[2018 Sun God Invitational]] - 1st place (with Stephen Eltinge, Adam S. Fine, and [[Alex Hu]])
-* [[2018 Penn Bowl]] - 1st place (with Jacob Reed and Stephen Eltinge)
-* [[2018 ACF Nationals]] - 3rd place (with Jacob Reed, Stephen Eltinge, Isaac Kirk-Davidoff, and Adam S. Fine)
-* [[2018 SMT]] - 2nd place (with Adam S. Fine and [[Stefan D'Sa]])
-* [[2017 It's Lit]] (Skype) - 1st place (with [[Clare Keenan]] and [[Gabe Guedes]])
-* [[2017 Cambridge Open]] - 1st place (with Jacob Reed, Stephen Eltinge, and [[Jerry Vinokurov]])
-* [[2016 SCT]] - 1st place (with Adam S. Fine, [[Cathy Xue]], and [[Olivia Noble]])
+[[Category: Players on ICT Division I championship teams]]
 [[Category:Yale]]
 [[Category: People]]
 [[Category: Players active in 2018]]

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