Andrew Hart

Andrew Hart
Noted subjects	nothing really
Current college	Minnesota (2007-)
Past colleges	None
High school	Chaska (2005-2006)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Andrew Hart is a first-year law student at the University of Minnesota. Playing for Minnesota, Andrew has won three ACF undergraduate titles, one NAQT undergraduate title, and seventeen tournaments in total. From 2008 to 2010, Andrew was a member of a Minnesota lineup that included Brendan Byrne, Rob Carson, and Gautam Kandlikar, which is considered among the best undergraduate teams of all time. Along with those three, he was a runner up at the 2010 ACF Nationals, which Andrew Yaphe's Stanford team won in a close final. With Byrne, Carson, and Matt Weiner, Andrew won the 2009 Chicago Open. With Rob, he holds the dubious distinction of being a College Bowl national champion.

Andrew is a member of ACF and has served as the editor in chief for both ACF Fall and ACF Winter. He was also the head editor of the 2009 PACE NSC, and has played a major role in writing and editing Minnesota's house events: Minnesota Open (formerly Deep Bench) and MUT. He was a founding editor of HSAPQ.

High school

Andrew played for two years for Chaska High School in Minnesota. Career highlights include a 3-14-13 line at HSNCT in 2005 and a runner-up finish at Chip Beall's 2006 national tournament. Rob Carson was one of his high school teammates.

College playing career

Andrew joined the University of Minnesota team during his freshman year along with Rob. Their college careers both got off to a slow start, as the Minnesota team attended few circuit events. Andrew played the Matt Cvijanovich Novice Tournament at Illinois in the spring. With teammates Ezra Lyon, Meredith Johnson, and Rita Otto, Andrew and Rob won the 2007 College Bowl National Championship. In July, Andrew and Rob played their first circuit event together at the Chicago Open.

After playing few circuit tournament during Andrew's freshman year in 2006-07, the Minnesota team became one of the most active in the country in 2007-08. Andrew served as the club's president during a year in which a new crop of Minnesota players won its first tournament (EFT at Chicago), played eleven circuit events, and won the ACF Undergraduate Championship. Regular team members Gautam Kandlikar and Bernadette Spencer both matriculated to Minnesota and became key members of the team.

In 2008-09, Minnesota added Brendan Byrne, who transferred from Drake. Brendan put on an impressive performance at the 2008 Chicago Open, leading the field in scoring and carrying a team also consisting of Rob, Andrew, and Gautam to third place; that lineup became Minnesota's regular A-team over the next two years. Andrew won nine regular events playing with various Minnesota teammates. The team took fourth place at both the 2009 ICT and ACF Nationals, repeating as ACF undergraduate champions and taking second in the ICT undergraduate final to Harvard in a close match.

In the 2009-10 season, Andrew won the 2009 Chicago Open playing with Rob, Brendan, and Matt Weiner. After a successful regular season that included three circuit tournament victories, Andrew and his teammates repeated their fourth-place finish at ICT. Minnesota defeated Michigan in the undergraduate final, 515 to 125.

At the 2010 ACF Nationals, Minnesota was one of the two undefeated teams in the preliminary round robin, with a record of 13-0. After a loss to Maryland in the playoff round robin, Minnesota had to win its final playoff game, against defending champion Chicago, to make a one-game final. Andrew had his best game of the tournament, answer six tossups to propel Minnesota into the final against Andrew Yaphe's Stanford team. The final saw Stanford jump out to a 195-0 lead, as Andrew Yaphe answered six of the first seven tossups. Brendan answered the final three tossups of the half to draw Minnesota closer; the halftime score was 190-70. The second half saw Minnesota mount a furious comeback. All four team members scored during a six-tossup rally that spanned tossups fourteen through nineteen. Minnesota appeared to lead by forty going into the final question, which Stanford converted. After twentying the bonus, the final score was 270-260. However, a pending protest on Rob's buzz on tossup twelve was resolved in Stanford's favor. The final score was 260-225, Stanford.

In fall 2010, Andrew will enter law school at Minnesota.

Editing and writing

Andrew has been been a central editor for thirteen collegiate events since 2007, and has been a major contributor or editor for at least as many high school tournaments in that time.

Andrew is a voting member of ACF and has edited three ACF events: Fall 2007, Fall 2008, and Winter 2010. He served as a subject editor in fine arts and social science in his first ACF editorship, and has been the editor in chief of his most recent two events.

During Andrew's time at the University of Minnesota, he has been a central editor and writer for six Minnesota events: Two iterations of Minnesota Open in 2008 and 2009, three versions of MUT from 2008-10, and 2007 Deep Bench.

Andrew is the head editor of the Early Autumn Collegiate Novice tournament, which will be played at eighteen sites around North America in fall 2010. He has produced three collegiate side tournaments: the Illinois Open Literature Tournament 2007, the Impossible Speed Check tournament played at the 2008 Illinois Open, and the 2008 Minnesota Open Literature Tournament.

At the high school level, Andrew has served as the editor in chief of the 2009 PACE NSC, a founding editor of HSAPQ, and an editor and writer for several independent high school events.

Miscellany

• Observed a trend in NAQT packets that led to the creation of the BEEEES! meme.
• Designed the QB Wiki logo.
• Came up with the idea for the BEeS stats program.
• Brother of Matt Hart.