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<onlyinclude>A '''one-person team''' (or '''one-man team''') is a [[team]] with multiple [[players]] on it whose fate is perceived to be entirely tied to the scoring abilities of a single player. Literal "one-person" teams are typically referred to as [[solo]] instead.
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<onlyinclude>A '''one-person team''' (or '''one-man team''') is a [[team]] with multiple [[players]] on it whose fate is perceived to be entirely tied to the scoring abilities of a single player. Literal one-person teams (i.e. those with only a single individual on them) are sometimes called "one-person teams", but are typically referred to as playing [[solo]] instead.
  
 
The term is both laudatory and derisive - while it celebrates the skill of the "one-person" in question, it minimizes the contributions of their teammates (which are often significant) and carries with it the implication that the "one-person" is succeeding in part because of their lack of [[support]].
 
The term is both laudatory and derisive - while it celebrates the skill of the "one-person" in question, it minimizes the contributions of their teammates (which are often significant) and carries with it the implication that the "one-person" is succeeding in part because of their lack of [[support]].
 
Because of the derogatory connotations, and especially the implied insult to the teammates of the "one-person," it is not a good idea to use this term in reference to any team in your [[tournament]] when you are the [[TD]] or [[moderator]].</onlyinclude>
 
Because of the derogatory connotations, and especially the implied insult to the teammates of the "one-person," it is not a good idea to use this term in reference to any team in your [[tournament]] when you are the [[TD]] or [[moderator]].</onlyinclude>
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One-person teams are frequently successful at the local high school level and occasionally competitive nationally. They are vulnerable against well-balanced attacks from multiple good players at the highest levels of either high school or collegiate quizbowl, which frequently limits their placement.
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==Criticism==
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The term is a typical example of quizbowlers focusing on the role of individual players in a team; another common example is the prevalence of [[player polls]] and the discussion of individual stats (lately, this has contributed to the [[cult of PPG]]). In all cases, including many one-person teams, all players contribute to the overall success of the team. It is not uncommon for players on a team with a strong [[generalist]] to take on [[specialist]] roles to help ensure maximum [[coverage]]. This sort of division of labor is particularly pronounced on [[bonuses]], in which all players on the team have the opportunity to contribute.
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The use of the more common "one-man team" has been criticized as gendered for its implication that such teams are led by men and that women do not contribute to those teams.<ref>[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=377483#p377483 Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community] by [[Couch's Kingbird]] » Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:25 am</ref> This is one facet of the larger issue that women in quizbowl (and more generally those who are not in the in-group) often have to score points to be considered equals, due to consistent prioritization of top players over those in leadership or administrative roles (which are often pushed onto non-men).
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These same power dynamics also affect teams which have scoring asymmetries less extreme than in a one-person team.
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==Examples==
 
==Examples==
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One-person teams are frequently successful at the local high school level and occasionally competitive nationally. They usually cannot succeed against well-balanced attacks from multiple good players at the highest levels of either high school or collegiate quizbowl. No one-person team has ever won a high school national, but one has one a collegiate national.
 
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===High school===
 
===High school===
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This table is a subset of teams which could be considered "one-player" under a loose definition of a single player getting roughly 50% or more of a team's tossup points per game. Entry on this list has been limited to teams that placed in the top 20 at either [[HSNCT]] or [[NSC]].
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This table is a subset of teams which could be considered "one-player" since 2010, under the loose definition of "a single player with prelim PPG is 80% or more of a team's tossup points per game". Entry on this list has been limited to teams that fit this criteria while placing in the top 20 at either [[HSNCT]] or [[NSC]].
  
 
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|2010 [[St. Anselm's]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2010|school=[[Alpharetta]]|players=[[Nandhini Sundaresan]], [[Kunal Naik]], [[Gautam Narula]], [[William Horton]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=16|nsc=16th}}
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|Aidan, Brendan, Jacob, [[Matt Bollinger]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2010|school=[[Detroit Country Day]]|players=[[Michael Dimattia]], [[Neil Gurram]], [[John Bernabei]], [[Chris Schulte]], [[Aamod Dekhne]], [[Kevin Tan]], [[Hannah Cheriyan]]|sortHsnct=7|hsnct=7th|sortNsc=z|nsc=}}
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{{One-player team row|year=2010|school=[[Georgetown Day]] A|players=[[Casey Ebner]], [[Matthew Jackson]], [[Oliver Hudson]], [[Daniel Branch-Neufeld]], [[Alex Jiang]]|sortHsnct=5|hsnct=5th|sortNsc=5|nsc=5th}}
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|2010 [[Detroit Country Day]]
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|[[Aamod Dekhne]], [[Chris Schulte]], [[Hannah Cheriyan]], [[John Bernabei]], [[Kevin Tan]], [[Michael Dimattia]], [[Neil Gurram]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2010|school=[[St. Anselm's]]|players=Jacob, Brendan, Aidan, [[Matt Bollinger]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=4|nsc=4th}}
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{{One-player team row|year=2010|school=[[St. Ignatius]]|players=[[Jake O'Shea]], [[Amy Brabec]], [[Brian Kenny]], [[Vincent Kenny]], [[Andrew Deveau]], [[Michelle Yuen]]|sortHsnct=43|hsnct=43th|sortNsc=15|nsc=15th}}
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|2010 [[Georgetown Day]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2010|school=[[Torrey Pines]] A|players=[[Chris Wu]], [[Sharad Vikram]], [[Howon Lee]], [[Stephen Liu]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=7|nsc=7th}}
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|[[Alex Jiang]], [[Matthew Jackson]], [[Oliver Hudson]]
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|data-sort-value=5|t-5th
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{{One-player team row|year=2010|school=[[Walt Whitman]]|players=[[Alex Luta]], [[Douglas Graebner]], [[Oren Steinberg]], [[Jeremy Steinberg]], [[Todd Pollak]], [[Alex Rosen]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=13|nsc=13th}}
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|data-sort-value=5|t-5th
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{{One-player team row|year=2011|school=[[Alpharetta]]|players=[[Nandhini Sundaresan]], [[Kunal Naik]], [[Gautam Narula]], [[William Horton]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=13|nsc=13th}}
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|2010 [[Torrey Pines]]
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|[[Allison Zhao]], [[Ashley Lo]], [[Chris Wu]], [[Howon Lee]], [[Michelle Chen]], [[Sharad Vikram]], [[Stephen Liu]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2011|school=[[Centennial]]|players=[[Katherine Cannella]], [[Nikhil Vallabhaneni]], [[Adam Silverman]], Jenny C. (?)|sortHsnct=5|hsnct=5th|sortNsc=z|nsc=}}
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|data-sort-value=7|t-7th
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|data-sort-value=7|7th
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{{One-player team row|year=2011|school=[[Copley]]|players=[[Jeffrey Wang]], [[Saajid Moyen]], [[Edward Pang]], [[Keval Yerigeri]]|sortHsnct=13|hsnct=13th|sortNsc=z|nsc=}}
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|2010 [[Alpharetta]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2011|school=[[Stevenson]]|players=[[Eugene Bulkin]], [[Mark Savin]], [[Kevin Malis]], [[Zach Blumenfeld]], [[Joe Schlude]], [[Collin Shapiro]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=4|nsc=4th}}
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|[[Gautam Narula]], [[Kunal Naik]], [[Nandhini Sundaresan]], [[William Horton]]
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|data-sort-value=z|
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{{One-player team row|year=2011|school=[[St. Anselm]]|players=[[Patrick Merkle]], [[Aidan Mehigan]], [[Brendan Ziebarth]], [[Jacob Wasserman]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=19|nsc=19th}}
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|data-sort-value=16|t-16th
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{{One-player team row|year=2011|school=[[St. Ignatius]]|players=[[Vicky Del Real]], [[Amy Brabec]], [[John Lotus]], [[Josh Mei]], [[DePaul Ohiri]], [[Andrew Deveau]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=8|nsc=8th}}
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|2010 [[Walt Whitman]]
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|[[Alex Luta]], [[Alex Rosen]], [[Douglas Graebner]], [[Jeremy Steinberg]], [[Oren Steinberg]], [[Todd Pollak]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2012|school=[[Carbondale]] A|players=[[Michael Steele]], [[Natalie San]], [[Prerak Trivedi]], [[Ben Chametzky]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=5|nsc=5th}}
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|data-sort-value=13|13th
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{{One-player team row|year=2012|school=[[Centennial]]|players=[[Chris Olsen]], [[Claire Garland]], [[Will June]], [[Tyler Knoblett]], [[Adam Silverman]], [[Rick Sheahan]], [[Arun Doogar]], [[Nikhil Vallabhaneni]], [[Elliot Campos]]|sortHsnct=102|hsnct=102th|sortNsc=3|nsc=3rd}}
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|2010 [[St. Ignatius]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2012|school=[[New Trier]]|players=[[Anne McLaughlin]], [[Michael Goldman]], [[Andrew Wang]], [[Ying Han]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=18|nsc=18th}}
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|[[Amy Brabec]], [[Andrew Deveau]], [[Brian Kenny]], [[Jake O'Shea]], [[Michelle Yuen]], [[Vincent Kenny]]
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|data-sort-value=43|t-43rd
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{{One-player team row|year=2012|school=[[St. Anselm's Abbey School]]|players=[[Aidan Mehigan]], [[Jacob Wasserman]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=12|nsc=12th}}
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|data-sort-value=15|15th
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{{One-player team row|year=2012|school=[[Warren G. Harding]]|players=[[Michael Coates]], [[Joseph Angelo]], [[Sam Eartly]], [[Korey Gall]]|sortHsnct=33|hsnct=33th|sortNsc=19|nsc=19th}}
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|2010 [[Northmont]]
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|[[Brandon Williams]], [[Dan Welch]], [[Emmanuel Boakye]], [[Emily Bingham]], [[Michael Czupryn]], [[Sam Blizzard]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2013|school=[[Belvidere North]] A|players=[[Conor Reilley]], [[Emily Carrick]], [[Patrick Moore]], [[Dylan Minarik]]|sortHsnct=13|hsnct=13th|sortNsc=19|nsc=19th}}
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|data-sort-value=75|t-75th
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|data-sort-value=19|19th
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{{One-player team row|year=2013|school=[[Ladue]]|players=[[Ben Zhang]], [[Haohang Xu]], [[Max Schindler]], [[Jialin Ding]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=1|nsc=1st}}
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|2010 [[Stevenson]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2013|school=[[Northmont]]|players=[[Johnathan Yagisawa]], Helena (?), [[Sam Blizzard]], [[Tori Amos]], [[Meghan Jenkins]], [[Hao Tran]], [[Erin Laing]]|sortHsnct=21|hsnct=21th|sortNsc=19|nsc=19th}}
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|[[Julia Wang]], [[Kevin Malis]], [[Mark Savin]], [[Zach Blumenfeld]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2013|school=[[Thomas Jefferson]] A|players=[[Raynor Kuang]], [[Luke Waddell]], [[Nadege Aoki]], [[Sid Verma]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=7|nsc=7th}}
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|data-sort-value=8|8th
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{{One-player team row|year=2014|school=[[Northmont]]|players=[[Helena Jenkins]], [[Meghan Jenkins]], [[Sam Blizzard]], [[Kara Combs]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=7|nsc=7th}}
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|2011 [[Centennial]]
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|[[Adam Silverman]], Jenny C., [[Katherine Cannella]], [[Nikhil Vallabhaneni]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2014|school=[[St. Joseph]]|players=[[Dan Blackburn]], [[Jack Mehr]], [[Justin Lin]], [[Greg Burton]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=19|nsc=19th}}
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|data-sort-value=5|t-5th
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{{One-player team row|year=2014|school=[[Western Albemarle]]|players=[[Patrick Andrews]], [[Sam Lesemenn]], [[Tim Dodson]], [[Kelly Missett]], [[Eric Xu]], [[Sam Lesemann]], [[Angela Li]], [[Caroline Koester]]|sortHsnct=8|hsnct=8th|sortNsc=2|nsc=2nd}}
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|2011 [[Copley]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2015|school=[[Northmont]]|players=[[Lauren Papp]], [[Rachel Tracy]], [[Sam Blizzard]], [[Brendon Jenkins]], [[Kara Combs]]|sortHsnct=13|hsnct=13th|sortNsc=12|nsc=12th}}
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|[[Edward Pang]], [[Jeffrey Wang]], [[Keval Yerigeri]], [[Saajid Moyen]]
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|data-sort-value=13|t-13th
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{{One-player team row|year=2015|school=[[Rancho Bernardo]]|players=[[Omar El-Sabrout]], [[HoWon Choo]], [[Kion You]], [[Bryan Ugaz]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=19|nsc=19th}}
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{{One-player team row|year=2015|school=[[Western Albemarle]]|players=[[Muhannah Hossain]], [[Tim Dodson]], [[Kelly Missett]], [[Eric Xu]], [[Sam Lesemann]], [[Jackson Collins]], [[Caroline Koester]]|sortHsnct=5|hsnct=5th|sortNsc=5|nsc=5th}}
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|2011 [[Stevenson]]
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|[[Collin Shapiro]], [[Eugene Bulkin]], [[Joe Schlude]], [[Kevin Malis]], [[Mark Savin]], [[Zach Blumenfeld]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2016|school=[[Rancho Bernardo]]|players=[[Omar El-Sabrout]], [[Kion You]], [[Howon Choo]], [[Bryan Ugaz]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=15|nsc=15th}}
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|data-sort-value=4|4th
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{{One-player team row|year=2016|school=[[Rockford Auburn]]|players=[[Ethan Strombeck]], [[Cole Timmerwilke]], [[Henry Roe]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=8|nsc=8th}}
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|2011 [[Alpharetta]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2016|school=[[Westview]]|players=[[Grace Tran]], [[Jennie Wang]], [[Shivank Nayak]], [[Rahul Keyal]], [[Jonathan Tran]], [[Anish Sathe]], [[Kevin Yu]], [[Jordan Lei]]|sortHsnct=53|hsnct=53rd|sortNsc=14|nsc=14th}}
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|[[Gautam Narula]], [[Kunal Naik]], [[Nandhini Sundaresan]], [[William Horton]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2017|school=[[Dublin Scioto High School]]|players=[[Clark Smith]], [[Gabriel Pinto]], [[Sanjay Medicherla]], [[Eddy Liu]], [[Enoch Fu]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=6|nsc=6th}}
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|data-sort-value=13|13th
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{{One-player team row|year=2017|school=[[La Jolla]]|players=[[Shane Pauker]], [[James Malouf]], [[Jennifer Andrey]], [[Sam Kaseff]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=8|nsc=8th}}
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|2011 [[St. Anselm's]]
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|[[Aidan Mehigan]], [[Brendan Ziebarth]], [[Jacob Wasserman]], [[Patrick Merkle]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2017|school=[[Lehigh Valley]]|players=[[Lucas Larkin]], [[Jonathan Skee]], [[Alex Schmidt]], [[Ramon Torres]]|sortHsnct=15|hsnct=15th|sortNsc=z|nsc=}}
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|data-sort-value=19|19th
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{{One-player team row|year=2017|school=[[Naperville North]]|players=[[Jacob Fisher]], [[Shawn Yoshida]], [[Emily Hou]], [[Kelvin Li]], [[Jason Hu]], [[Jakob Myers]]|sortHsnct=3|hsnct=3rd|sortNsc=9|nsc=9th}}
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|2011 [[Maggie Walker]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2018|school=[[Battle Ground]]|players=[[Cameron Clark]], [[Max Dambach]], [[Henry Dambach]], [[Jack Lewis]]|sortHsnct=32|hsnct=32nd|sortNsc=16|nsc=16th}}
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|[[J.R. Roach]], [[Jordan Bekenstein]], [[Saumil Bandyopadhyay]], [[Seung Hwan Kim]], [[Tommy Casalaspi]]
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|data-sort-value=z|5th
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{{One-player team row|year=2018|school=[[Beavercreek]]|players=[[Abby Cohen]], [[Ziyi Zuo]], [[Hari Parameswaran]], [[David Cohen]]|sortHsnct=5|hsnct=5th|sortNsc=8|nsc=8th}}
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|data-sort-value=z|5th
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{{One-player team row|year=2018|school=[[Crystal Springs Uplands]]|players=[[Partha Rao]], [[Alice Jiang]], [[Justin French]], [[Darren Jian]]|sortHsnct=12|hsnct=12th|sortNsc=7|nsc=7th}}
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|2012 [[Centennial]]
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|[[Adam Silverman]], [[Claire Garland]], [[Nikhil Vallabhaneni]], [[Will June]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2018|school=[[Downingtown STEM]]|players=[[Anish Gadgil]], [[Vishwa Shanmugam]], [[Max Lind]], [[Rohan Vora]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=18|nsc=18th}}
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|data-sort-value=4|4th
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{{One-player team row|year=2018|school=[[Dublin Scioto]]|players=[[Gabriel Pinto]], [[Clark Smith]], [[Visvam Srinivasan]], [[Edward Liu]]|sortHsnct=z|hsnct=|sortNsc=2|nsc=2nd}}
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|2012 [[Auburn]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2018|school=[[Lehigh Valley]]|players=[[Nathaniel Schmidt]], [[Alex Schmidt]]|sortHsnct=12|hsnct=12th|sortNsc=21|nsc=21st}}
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|[[Abid Haseeb]], [[Alex Pandya]], [[Filip Milovanovic]], [[Lloyd Sy]]
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|data-sort-value=5|t-5th
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{{One-player team row|year=2018|school=[[Miami Valley]]|players=[[William Groger]], [[John John Groger]]|sortHsnct=20|hsnct=20th|sortNsc=34|nsc=34th}}
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{{One-player team row|year=2019|school=[[Beavercreek]]|players=[[Abby Cohen]], [[Tiffany Zhou]], [[Hari Parameswaran]], [[Tegan Kapadia]]|sortHsnct=1|hsnct=1st|sortNsc=7|nsc=7th}}
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|2012 [[Ladue]]
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|[[Ben Zhang]], [[Haohang Xu]], [[Jialin Ding]], [[Max Schindler]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2019|school=[[James E. Taylor]]|players=[[William Golden]], [[Jed Wang]], [[Katie Sturzu]], [[Mitchell Shadden]]|sortHsnct=5|hsnct=5th|sortNsc=2|nsc=2nd}}
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{{One-player team row|year=2019|school=[[Georgetown Day]]|players=[[Avani Ahuja]], [[Matthew Siff]], [[Arthur Delot-Vilain]], [[Nathaniel Rosenberg]], [[Alex Moon]]|sortHsnct=31|hsnct=31st|sortNsc=17|nsc=17th}}
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|2013 [[Belvidere North]]
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{{One-player team row|year=2019|school=[[Rockford Auburn]]|players=[[Ethan Strombeck]], [[Justin Abel]], [[Leif Verace]], [[Lilly Chávez]]|sortHsnct=8|hsnct=8th|sortNsc=6th|nsc=6th}}
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|[[Conor Reilley]], [[Dylan Minarik]], [[Emily Carrick]], [[Patrick Moore]]
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|data-sort-value=13|t-13th
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{{One-player team row|year=2021|school=[[Lambert]]|players=[[Anish Kayarthodi]], [[Aadi Karthik]], [[Justin Kim]], [[Vishal Sareddy]], [[Arjun Birthi]], [[Adi Krish]]|sortHsnct=19|hsnct=19th|sortNsc=9|nsc=9th}}
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|2013 [[Loyola Academy]]
 
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|[[Ian Torres]], [[Morgan Venkus]], [[Zach Hayes]]
 
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|2013 [[Bellarmine]]
 
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|[[Abhishek Aditham]], [[Hiep Nguyen]], [[Sameer Rai]], Sohan, [[Ved Paranjpe]]
 
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|2013 [[Athens Academy]]
 
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|[[Claudia Evaristo]], [[Edward Tie]], [[Elyse Paneral]], [[Jason Fern]], [[Timmy Huang]]
 
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|data-sort-value=8|t-8th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2013 [[Ladue]]
 
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|[[Ben Zhang]], [[Haohang Xu]], [[Jialin Ding]], [[Max Schindler]]
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2013 [[East Chapel Hill]]
 
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|[[Alex Li]], [[Jacob Reed]], [[Matt Dominguez]], [[Salman Iftikhar]], [[Sung-Hoon Kim]]
 
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|data-sort-value=8|t-8th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2014 [[Western Albemarle]]
 
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|[[Angela Li]], [[Caroline Koester]], [[Eric Xu]], [[Kelly Missett]], [[Sam Lesemann]]
 
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|data-sort-value=8|t-8th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2015 [[Harmony Science Academy]]
 
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|[[Ali Barreh]], [[Brian Nardone]], [[Henry Hawthorn]], [[Peter Wofford]]
 
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|data-sort-value=8|t-8th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2015 [[Naperville North]]
 
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|[[Amy Tien]], [[Brandon Coy]], [[Jakob Myers]], [[Naman Priyadarshi]], [[Nishaad Navkal]], [[Raymond Li]]
 
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|data-sort-value=13|t-13th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2015 [[Western Albemarle]]
 
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|[[Caroline Koester]], [[Eric Xu]], [[Kelly Missett]], [[Sam Lesemann]], [[Tim Dodson]]
 
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|data-sort-value=5|t-5th
 
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|data-sort-value=5|5th
 
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|2015 [[Northmont]]
 
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|[[Brendon Jenkins]], [[Kara Combs]], [[Lauren Papp]], [[Rachel Tracy]], [[Sam Blizzard]]
 
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|data-sort-value=13|t-13th
 
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|data-sort-value=12|12th
 
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|2016 [[Auburn]]
 
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|[[Cole Timmerwilke]], [[Ethan Strombeck]], [[Henry Roe]]
 
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|data-sort-value=5|t-6th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2016 [[Stevenson]]
 
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|[[Ali Saeed]], [[Kazuma Shimanaka]], [[Nathan Cha]], [[Young Fenimore Lee]]
 
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|data-sort-value=13|t-13th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2016 [[Coronado]]
 
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|[[Andrew Barnett]], [[Deepak Muthyala]], [[Luke Minton]], [[Sheel Patel]]
 
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|data-sort-value=8|t-8th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2016 [[Darien]]
 
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|[[Andrew Benz]], [[Brendan Berrigan]], [[Julia Tong]], [[Michael Borecki]]
 
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|data-sort-value=8|t-8th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2016 [[Taylor]]
 
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|[[Ashwath Seetharaman]], [[Eric Liu]], [[Jacob Redland]], [[Joseph Kusko]], [[Oishik Saha]], [[William Golden]]
 
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|data-sort-value=13|t-13th
 
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|data-sort-value=z|
 
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|2017 [[Taylor]]
 
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|[[Ashwath Seetharaman]], [[Jacob Redland]], [[Joseph Kusko]], [[Oishik Saha]], [[William Golden]]
 
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|2017 [[Naperville North]]
 
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|[[Emily Hou]], [[Jacob Fisher]], [[Jakob Myers]], [[Jason Hu]], [[Shawn Yoshida]]
 
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|2017 [[Lehigh Valley]]
 
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|[[Alex Schmidt]], [[Jonathan Skee]], [[Lucas Larkin]], [[Ramon Torres]]
 
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|2018 [[Lehigh Valley]]
 
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|[[Alex Schmidt]], [[Nathaniel Schmidt]]
 
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|2018 [[Beavercreek]]
 
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|[[Abby Cohen]], [[David Cohen]], [[Hari Parameswaran]], [[Ziyi Zuo]]
 
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|2018 [[Crystal Springs]]
 
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|[[Alice Jiang]], [[Darren Jian]], [[Justine French]], [[Partha Rao]]
 
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|2018 [[Miami Valley]]
 
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|[[John John Groger]], [[William Groger]]
 
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|2018 [[Dublin Scioto]]
 
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|[[Clark Smith]], [[Edward Liu]], [[Gabriel Pinto]], [[Visvam Srinivasan]]
 
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|2018 [[Taylor]]
 
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|[[Ashwath Seetharaman]], [[Jacob Redland]], [[Joseph Kusko]], [[William Golden]]
 
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|2019 [[Taylor]]
 
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|[[Jed Wang]], [[Katie Sturzu]], [[Mitchell Shadden]], [[William Golden]]
 
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|[[Ethan Strombeck]], [[Justin Abel]], [[Leif Verace]], [[Lilly Chavez]]
 
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|2019 [[Beavercreek]]
 
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|[[Abby Cohen]], [[Hari Parameswaran]], [[Tiffany Zhou]], [[Tegan Kapadia]]
 
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|2019 [[Troy]]
 
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|[[Alexander Borca-Tasciuc]], [[Alexander Pyle]], [[Kemal Pulungan]], [[Rufus Hahn Nguyen-McDowell]], [[Xavier Schlemmer]]
 
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|[[Cecily Rea]], [[Christina Curran]], [[Daniel Sheinberg]], [[Douglas Meeker]]
 
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|2019 [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)]]
 
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|[[Benjamin Xu]], [[Fred Zhang]], [[James Kuang]], [[Julia Zhou]], [[Kevin Wang (TJ)]]
 
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|[[Amogh Kulkarni (Arcadia)]], [[Brian Lam]], [[Michael Kwok]], [[Ryan Sun]]
 
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|2021 [[Lambert]]
 
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|[[Aadi Karthik]], [[Adi Krish]], [[Anish Kayarthodi]], [[Arjun Birthi]], [[Vishal Sareddy]]
 
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|2021 [[Buffalo Grove]]
 
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|[[Bruno Ibrahim Betts]], [[Justin Wytmar]], [[Rohan Ganeshan]], [[Sanjay Manoj]], [[Vashnuh Bala]], [[Ximena Haramillo Mata]]
 
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|2021 [[Wakeland]]
 
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|[[Arnav Kaul]], [[Geetan Madala]], [[Rajas Ketkar]]
 
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Latest revision as of 19:22, 18 September 2022

A one-person team (or one-man team) is a team with multiple players on it whose fate is perceived to be entirely tied to the scoring abilities of a single player. Literal one-person teams (i.e. those with only a single individual on them) are sometimes called "one-person teams", but are typically referred to as playing solo instead.

The term is both laudatory and derisive - while it celebrates the skill of the "one-person" in question, it minimizes the contributions of their teammates (which are often significant) and carries with it the implication that the "one-person" is succeeding in part because of their lack of support. Because of the derogatory connotations, and especially the implied insult to the teammates of the "one-person," it is not a good idea to use this term in reference to any team in your tournament when you are the TD or moderator.

One-person teams are frequently successful at the local high school level and occasionally competitive nationally. They are vulnerable against well-balanced attacks from multiple good players at the highest levels of either high school or collegiate quizbowl, which frequently limits their placement.

Criticism

The term is a typical example of quizbowlers focusing on the role of individual players in a team; another common example is the prevalence of player polls and the discussion of individual stats (lately, this has contributed to the cult of PPG). In all cases, including many one-person teams, all players contribute to the overall success of the team. It is not uncommon for players on a team with a strong generalist to take on specialist roles to help ensure maximum coverage. This sort of division of labor is particularly pronounced on bonuses, in which all players on the team have the opportunity to contribute.

The use of the more common "one-man team" has been criticized as gendered for its implication that such teams are led by men and that women do not contribute to those teams.[1] This is one facet of the larger issue that women in quizbowl (and more generally those who are not in the in-group) often have to score points to be considered equals, due to consistent prioritization of top players over those in leadership or administrative roles (which are often pushed onto non-men).

These same power dynamics also affect teams which have scoring asymmetries less extreme than in a one-person team.

References

  1. ↑ Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community by Couch's Kingbird » Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:25 am
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