Mike Bentley

Mike Bentley
Noted subjects	Computer Science, Videogames, maybe some areas of History like the Supreme Court
Current college	None
Past colleges	Maryland (2005-2008)
High school	West Chester East (2003-2004)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Mike Bentley is a quizbowl player, formerly for the University of Maryland, where he also served as President of the club. He's most famous in the quizbowl world not for actually being good at quizbowl but for recording the Quizbowl Cast, formerly hosting the Quizbowl Wiki, and editing the best trash tournaments ever.

High School

Mike played for the West Chester East High School Academic Team in 2003 and 2004. As part of the Varsity Team in 2004 he was on a team that placed 4th at the National Academic Championship. His Typing of the Dead skills allowed him to serve as a moderately successful typist for Chip's Quiznet league, although those were counterbalanced by his terrible spelling skills.

Mike only competed in Chip-style questions in high school, although his team was slated to go the Princeton's NAQT tournament but bad weather intervened.

College

Mike formerly attended the University of Maryland, where he was a member of the Maryland Academic Quiz Team since his freshman year in 2004-05. In 2006 and 2007 he served as Treasurer of the club under club president Casey Retterer, and for the 2008 year took over as club president.

Mike has served as editor for 2008's This Tournament Goes To 11, the Maryland Fall Classic, TIT and Maryland Spring Classic. During the summer he contributed several questions to Jonathan Magin's Gaddis tournament, edited ASS II and worked on the Gunpei Yokoi Memorial Open. In 2007 he edited ASS, The Chris McCray Tournament For Academic Excellence, the Maryland Spring Classic and some of the Maryland Fall Classic. Despite these efforts, Mike isn't actually very good at the whole playing quizbowl thing.

Probably his best (individual) college performance was at the 2008's Penn Bowl where he fraudulently won an individual scoring prize by beating up on far less experienced players in the lower brackets. Playing only with a very inexperienced teammate, Mike answered considerably more tossups than bonus parts in that tournament, demonstrating his impressive lack of deep knowledge.

Mike recently alternated between beating up on and getting beaten up by novice teams at the 2008 MLA Open. He scored 85 points in Round 8 against Wake Forest B and -10 points in Round 9 against Duke B.

By attaching himself to teams consisting of some of the better members of the Maryland team, Mike has "won" tournaments like 2008's Cardinal Classic and ACF Regionals at Delaware.

Seattle

After graduating from Maryland, Mike moved out to Seattle where he is serving as something of a coach for the University of Washington quizbowl team. He also continues to play open tournaments such as the Minnesota Open. In 2010, Mike played some tournaments as Bellevue College.

Other Stuff

At a mirror of the 2006 Chicago Open, Mike had the idea (by way of stealing it from 9 Minutes) of recording the matches on his MP3 player. However, due to his incompetence, he didn't actually record anything audible. However, Mike got his act together and successfully recorded the 2007 ACF Regionals, thus starting the Quizbowl Cast.

Mike wrote a four-quarter format Nintendo round for the 100th episode celebration for the Go Nintendo Podcast in July of 2007. That round is now up on the Stanford Archive.