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Chris Ray

Noted subjects	General, History, Science theft
Past colleges	Maryland (2007-2014); Chicago (2014-2016); Ohio State (2016-2023)
High school	Richard Montgomery (2004-2006)
HSQB profile	DumbJacques
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Chris Ray was a player for Ohio State. He is a graduate of Richard Montgomery High School, and a former member of the quizbowl teams at Maryland and Chicago. Long considered one of the best active generalists in the game, he was a major scorer on the teams that won the 2008 and 2016 ICTs, as well as the 2012 Chicago Open. He was the chief editor of the acclaimed 2010 NSC, as well as 2013 ACF Regionals and 2019 Chicago Open.

Playing Career

High School

Chris attended Richard Montgomery high school, which he led to victory at the 2006 HSNCT. That same year, he led the field in scoring at PACE NSC, en route to a second place finish.

College

Chris attended Maryland while an undergraduate student. He contested Division II of the 2007 ICT, leading the field in scoring and claiming the title after defeating Dartmouth in the finals. The following year, he joined teammates Jonathan Magin and Charles Meigs on the Maryland A team which went undefeated at the 2008 ICT (defeating Chicago in the finals), and finished 3rd at that year's ACF Nationals. After the departure of Meigs and Magin, Chris emerged as a legitimate top player, leading the field in scoring at the 2011 ICT.

In 2012, Chris teamed with Matt Bollinger, Eric Mukherjee, and future teammate John Lawrence on a team which cleared the field to win that year's Chicago Open.

After graduating from Maryland, Chris pursued his masters at Chicago, where he joined Lawrence and Max Schindler on the Chicago A teams which won the 2016 ICT and took second at both the 2015 and 2016 ACF Nationals. He obtained his PhD at Ohio State, where he and Clark Smith made regular top-bracket appearances, achieving a best finish of 3rd at 2022 ACF Nationals. In 2022, he was named an ACF Nationals All-Star for the ninth time, passing Andrew Yaphe as the individual with the most all-time ACF Nationals All-Star awards.

Playing Style

Chris possesses a notoriously unpredictable playing style which Eric Mukherjee once compared to drunken boxing. In high school, he gained infamy for priming the buzzer beyond reasonable limits (a practice he continues to this day). While this often led to him having a high neg-rate, he has succeeded over time in in controlling his negging while retaining his ability to upset statistically better teams.

Editing

Chris is widely regarded as an excellent editor who produces very enjoyable, controlled, and well-written tournaments across all categories (tendency towards offhand commentary aside). In addition to his work as an editor, he was a co-founder of the now-defunct Dynasty Academic Competition Questions.

Editing Credits

All editing credits listed below are as head editor unless otherwise noted.

2009 Terrapin Winter
2009 Terrapin Fall (with Mike Sorice)
2010 ACF Regionals (as assistant editor)
2011 Terrapin (as assistant editor)
2012 BARGE
2013 ACF Regionals
2019 Chicago Open (with Jacob Reed)

Scoring Title Succession

ICT DI Leading Scorer

Preceded by

Year

Succeeded by

Evan Adams

2011

Trevor Davis

NSC Leading Scorer

Preceded by

Year

Succeeded by

Noah Rahman

2006

Kurtis Droge

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-|Subjects = General, History, candy, Asia, Science theft
+|Subjects = General, History, Science theft
-|schoolcur = [[Maryland]] (2007-) [[Category: Players active in 2007]] [[Category: Players active in 2008]] [[Category: Players active in 2010]]
+|schoolcur =
-|schoolpast = [[Arizona State]] (2007)
+|schoolpast = [[Maryland]] (2007-2014); [[Chicago]] (2014-2016); [[Ohio State]] (2016-2023)
 |highschool = [[Richard Montgomery]] (2004-2006)
-| }}
+|forums = [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=578 DumbJacques]
+}}
+'''Chris Ray''' was a player for [[Ohio State]]. He is a graduate of [[Richard Montgomery]] High School, and a former member of the quizbowl teams at [[Maryland]] and [[Chicago]].  Long considered one of the best active generalists in the game, he was a major scorer on the teams that won the [[2008 ICT|2008]] and [[2016 ICT|2016]] [[ICT]]s, as well as the [[2012 Chicago Open]]. He was the chief editor of the acclaimed [[2010 NSC]], as well as [[2013 ACF Regionals]] and [[2019 Chicago Open]].
-'''Chris Ray''' is a graduate of [[Richard Montgomery]] High School and a current member of the [[Maryland|Maryland Academic Quiz Team]].  Chris is one of the best active generalists in the game and finished third in the [[2012 Player Poll]]. He was the president of the now-defunct [[DACQ|Dynasty Academic Competition Questions]] and was chief editor of the acclaimed [[2010 NSC]].
+==Playing Career==
 ===High School===
-Chris's career at Richard Montgomery was marked by a truly disastrous 1-4 record as a member of Richard Montgomery's first ever D team, as well as numerous other humiliating defeats in 2004 and 2005.  However, in 2006, he led the Richard Montgomery team to an [[HSNCT]] championship.
+Chris attended [[Richard Montgomery]] high school, which he led to victory at the [[2006 HSNCT]]. That same year, he led the field in scoring at [[2006 NSC|PACE NSC]], en route to a second place finish.
 ===College===
-Chris's misguided attempt to start a team at Arizona State University resulted in a disastrous trip to attend WIT at Berkeley, in which he convinced three 30somethings to accompany him to Los Angeles, despite the fact that the tournament was in Berkeley (about 7 hours north of Los Angeles), and also on a different weekend.  Also while at Arizona State he suffered a rather heartbreaking (and scholarship-denying) loss to the esteemed Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering in a game of Intramural CBI. The game was inexplicably filmed and can be seen [http://www.azpbs.org/asuacademicbowl/ here] under Round 1.
+Chris attended [[Maryland]] while an undergraduate student. He contested Division II of the [[2007 ICT]], leading the field in scoring and claiming the title after defeating [[Dartmouth]] in the finals. The following year, he joined teammates [[Jonathan Magin]] and [[Charles Meigs]] on the Maryland A team which went undefeated at the [[2008 ICT]] (defeating [[Chicago]] in the finals), and finished 3rd at that year's [[2008 ACF Nationals|ACF Nationals]]. After the departure of Meigs and Magin, Chris emerged as a legitimate top player, leading the field in scoring at the [[2011 ICT]].
+In 2012, Chris teamed with [[Matt Bollinger]], [[Eric Mukherjee]], and future teammate [[John Lawrence]] on a team which cleared the field to win that year's [[2012 Chicago Open|Chicago Open]].
-He would soon leave Arizona State for the University of Maryland, where his results would be much less tragic. Chris was part of a strong 2008 Maryland A team that won [[2008 ICT]] and 3rd place at [[2008 ACF Nationals]], and subsequently emerged as a leader in his own right, leading Maryland A to a 4th place finish at [[2010 ACF Nationals]] and 4th at [[2012 ICT]].
+After graduating from Maryland, Chris pursued his masters at [[Chicago]], where he joined Lawrence and [[Max Schindler]] on the Chicago A teams which won the [[2016 ICT]] and took second at both the [[2015 ACF Nationals|2015]] and [[2016 ACF Nationals|2016]] ACF Nationals. He obtained his PhD at [[Ohio State]], where he and [[Clark Smith]] made regular top-bracket appearances, achieving a best finish of 3rd at [[2022 ACF Nationals]]. In 2022, he was named an ACF Nationals All-Star for the ninth time, passing [[Andrew Yaphe]] as the individual with the most all-time ACF Nationals All-Star awards.
 ===Playing Style===
+Chris possesses a notoriously unpredictable playing style which [[Eric Mukherjee]] once compared to drunken boxing.  In high school, he gained infamy for priming the buzzer beyond reasonable limits (a practice he continues to this day). While this often led to him having a high [[neg]]-rate, he has succeeded over time in in controlling his negging while retaining his ability to upset statistically better teams.
-Chris possessed a notoriously aggravating playing style, particularly for his teammates ([[Eric Mukherjee]] once compared it to drunken boxing).  In high school, he gained infamy for priming the buzzer beyond reasonable limits, a practice he continues to this day even on ACF Nationals questions.  This inadvisable technique notably led to an accidental buzz prior to the question during the 2006 [[PAC]] Finals, which Chris successfully blamed on teammate Zach "Klitz" Klitzman's elbow movements and was able to avoid suffering a penalty.
+==Editing==
+Chris is widely regarded as an excellent editor who produces very enjoyable, controlled, and well-written tournaments across all categories (tendency towards offhand commentary aside). In addition to his work as an editor, he was a co-founder of the now-defunct [[Dynasty Academic Competition Questions]].
-Chris was also known for being a frivolous negger, registering four, five, and six neg games with some regularity. However, this also made him incredibly streaky, with the result that he can beat top-level teams in one round and almost lose to bottom bracket teams in others. Recently, he's succeeded in controlling his negging (achieving a 3:1 ratio at [[2012 ACF Nationals]]), though his ability to upset statistically better teams remains.
+===Editing Credits===
+All editing credits listed below are as head editor unless otherwise noted.
-=== The Muse ===
+*2009 [[Terrapin]] Winter
+*2009 [[Terrapin]] Fall (with [[Mike Sorice]])
+*[[2010 ACF Regionals]] (as assistant editor)
+*2011 [[Terrapin]] (as assistant editor)
+*2012 [[BARGE]]
+*[[2013 ACF Regionals]]
+*[[2019 Chicago Open]] (with [[Jacob Reed]])
-Perhaps the most surprising part of Chris Ray's career is his unlikely role as a muse figure inspiring many of quizbowl's greatest creative achievements. Most notably, [[Charles Meigs]] wrote the immortal [[Diary of Chris Ray]] [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=5436&p=78761&hilit] based on his experiences playing the [[2008 ACF Nationals]] with him. [[Ted Gioia]] has heralded the work as the "only indisputable masterpiece in the Meigsian oeuvre" and [[Daichi Ueda]] has called for it to be "immortalized."
+==Scoring Title Succession==
-Chris was famously captured "barging" into the room in [[Lily Vonderheide]]'s photo of the [[2008 Cardinal Classic]]. When asked about the photo, Harvard Professor Elaine Scarry  opined that the "man in red" was "peculiar."
+{{Succession_box_(Individual)|Individual Honor = [[ICT|ICT DI Leading Scorer]]
+|year = 2011
+|previous = [[Evan Adams]]
+|next = [[Trevor Davis]]
+| }}
-Even in high school his unique playing style served as fertile ground for the artistic imagination. While reading at a [[Gonzaga High School]] tournament, poet Dana Gioia was particularly by struck by Ray's style after launching numerous protests in a blow-out including an unsuccessful attempt to belligerently convince him that Degas should have been accepted for Manet. Gioia was immediately inspired by Ray leading him to write a no longer extant limerick about "Christopher Ray, that king of the buffet."
+{{Succession_box_(Individual)|Individual Honor = [[NSC|NSC Leading Scorer]]
+|year = 2006
-===Editing===
+|previous = [[Noah Rahman]]
+|next = [[Kurtis Droge]]
-In recent times, Chris has been universally acknowledged as an excellent editor who produces very enjoyable, controlled, and well-written tournaments across all categories (high density of inside-jokes and sexual humor in his packets aside).
+| }}
-*[[BARGE]]
-*[[2010 ACF Regionals]]
-*[[TIT]] - Spring and Fall 2009, 2011
-*[[PACE NSC]] - 2008-2010
-*[[DACQ]]
-*[[Rumble on the Pike]] - 2005 and 2006
-===Tournament Results===
-* [[2012 ACF Nationals]] - 10th place (with [[Arun Chonai]], [[SteveJon Guth]], and [[Dan Puma]]))
-* [[2012 ICT]] - 4th place (with [[Arun Chonai]], [[SteveJon Guth]], and [[Dan Puma]]))
-* [[2012 SCT]] Mid-Atlantic - 1st place (with [[Arun Chonai]], [[SteveJon Guth]], and [[Dan Puma]]))
-* [[2012 ACF Regionals]] Mid-Atlantic - 1st place (with [[Arun Chonai]], [[SteveJon Guth]], and [[Dan Puma]]))
-* [[2011 MAGNI]] - 1st place (with [[Arun Chonai]], [[SteveJon Guth]], and [[Dan Puma]]))
-* [[2011 MOO]]) - 1st place (with [[Arun Chonai]], [[SteveJon Guth]], and [[Dan Puma]]))
-* [[2011 VCU Open]] - 1st place (with [[Eric Mukherjee]], [[Ted Gioia]], and [[Ike Jose]])
-* [[2011 ACF Nationals]] - 10th place (with [[SteveJon Guth]], [[Isaac Hirsch]], and [[Ozzie Fallick]])
-* [[2010 ACF Nationals]] - 4th place (with [[Phil Durkos]], [[Jeremy Eaton]], and [[SteveJon Guth]])
-* [[Harvard International|2010 HI]] - 2nd place (with [[Eric Mukherjee]], [[Hannah Kirsch]], and [[Andrew Lim]])
-* [[2010 SCT]] at Maryland - 1st place (with [[Phil Durkos]], [[Jeremy Eaton]], and [[SteveJon Guth]])
-* [[2010 T Party]] at VCU - 1st place (with [[Phil Durkos]] and [[SteveJon Guth]])
-* [[2010 ACF Winter]] - 2nd place (with [[Phil Durkos]], [[Jeremy Eaton]], and [[SteveJon Guth]])
-* [[2010 Penn Bowl]] - top bracket (with [[Phil Durkos]], [[Jeremy Eaton]], and [[SteveJon Guth]])
-* [[2009 THUNDER]] - 1st place (with [[Jeremy Eaton]] and [[SteveJon Guth]])
-* [[2009 VCU Open]] - 2nd place (with [[Eric Mukherjee]], [[Ike Jose]], and sometimes [[Evan Adams]]
-* [[2009 Missouri Open]] at Maryland - 2nd place (with [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Aaron Rosenberg]], and [[SteveJon Guth]])
-* [[2009 FICHTE]] - 1st place (with [[SteveJon Guth]], [[Phil Durkos]], and [[Rob ?]])
-* [[2009 MUT]] at Maryland - 1st place (with [[SteveJon Guth]])
-* [[2009 ACF Regionals]] - 1st place (with [[Jeremy Eaton]], [[Jeff Amoros]], and [[Phil Durkos]])
-* [[2009 Penn Bowl]] - 4th place (with [[Jeremy Eaton]], [[SteveJon Guth]], and [[Phil Durkos]])
-* [[2009 ACF Winter]] - 1st place (with [[Jeremy Eaton]] and [[Phil Durkos]])
-* [[2008 Illinois Open]] at Maryland - 1st place (with [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Ted Gioia]], and [[Andrew Lim]])
-* [[2008 EFT]] at Wake Forest - 1st place (with [[Phil Durkos]])
-* [[2008 ACF Nationals]] - 3rd place (with [[Charles Meigs]], [[Jonathan Magin]], and [[Dan Suzman]])
-* [[2008 ICT]] - 1st place (with [[Charles Meigs]], [[Jonathan Magin]], and [[Jeremy Eaton]])
-* [[2008 SCT]] Mideast - 1st place (with [[Mike Bentley]], [[Jeremy Eaton]], and [[Brittany Clark]])
-* [[2008 Cardinal Classic]] - 1st place (with [[Charles Meigs]], [[Jonathan Magin]], and [[Mike Bentley]])
-* [[2008 PARFAIT]] - 1st place (with [[Charles Meigs]], [[Jonathan Magin]], and [[Jeremy Eaton]])
-* [[2008 Penn Bowl]] - 1st place (with [[Charles Meigs]], [[Jonathan Magin]], and [[Jeremy Eaton]])
-* [[2007 ICT]] DII  - 1st place
-* 2006 [[HSNCT]] - 1st place
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