Harvard Fall Tournament

The Harvard Fall Tournament, or HFT, is the house-written high school quiz bowl tournament held by the Harvard College Bowl Team each fall. Along with the BHSAT produced by Yale, the HFT question set is considered to be of the premier regular-plus high school housewrites.

Stuyvesant High School (NY) won the first HFT on October 14, 2006. Walt Whitman High School (MD) won the second edition on November 10, 2007. Kyle Haddad-Fonda served as chief editor for both tournaments and as tournament director for the first; Dennis Sun was tournament director for the second.

The third annual HFT, edited by Andy Watkins and Kyle Haddad-Fonda, was held at Harvard on November 15, 2008. State College won an advantaged final against Hunter to win the tournament; the margin of victory was just twenty points in each game. Mirrors were held at VCU (won by Walter Johnson over Maggie Walker), Rockford Auburn, Raleigh Charter, and the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. The fourth and fifth HFTs were edited and directed by Dallas Simons and Andy Watkins. The seventh HFT was head edited and directed by Stephen Liu, and the eighth was co-edited by Liu and Will Holub-Moorman.

Raynor Kuang head-edited the 2016 and 2017 editions of the tournament. HFT remains one of the most widely-mirrored high school housewrites ever, with over 200 teams playing the 2016 edition at 13 different sites.

Results

Year	Head Editor	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth
2006		Stuyvesant	Kellenberg A	High Tech	Needham A
2007		Walt Whitman	Dorman	State College A	Thomas Jefferson A and Stuyvesant
2008	Dallas Simons and Andy Watkins	State College	Hunter	Gonzaga	Brookwood
2009	Dallas Simons and Andy Watkins	State College A	Dunbar A	Hunter	Kellenberg A
2010		LASA A	State College	Dorman	Thomas Jefferson A (unaffiliated with school)
2011		Dorman	Hunter A and Detroit Catholic Central	Thomas Jefferson A	Seven Lakes
2012		LASA B**	LASA A**	St. John's A and Hunter A	Dunbar
2013		DCC	St. Joseph A (NJ)	Kellenberg A	Ridgewood
2014		State College A	Wilmington Charter A	Bethlehem Central	Dorman A
2015	Raynor Kuang and Robert Chu	Bethlehem Central	Lexington A	AMSA A	Charter A
2016	Raynor Kuang and Robert Chu	Southside A	Hunter A	Lexington A	Wayzata A
2017	Raynor Kuang	DCC A	Hunter A	Lehigh Valley	Hoover A
2018	Jon Suh	DCC A	Lexington A	Hunter A	Greens Farms Academy
2019	Jon Suh	Acton-Boxborough	Lexington A	Belmont A	Kellenberg A

Mirrors

Host	Date	Teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth
UCSD	11/13/10	17	Torrey Pines B	La Jolla A	Torrey Pines A	La Jolla B
UCSD	11/21/09	18	Torrey Pines A	La Jolla A	University	Rancho Bernardo B
Walt Whitman	11/13/10	24	Maggie Walker A	Georgetown Day	St. Anselm's	Wilmington Charter A
Central Gwinnett	12/05/09	19	Southside A	Southside B	Brookwood A	Westminster
NYU	2/29/20	18	Millburn A	East Brunswick B	Hunter A	East Brunswick A

See also

• Harvard Fall Tournament in Georgia