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| Above: Imperial A after winning 2023 British Student Quiz Championships From left to right: Enoch Yuen, Justin Lee, Michael Mays, Adam Jones |
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Imperial College London (Imperial) is a research university in London, United Kingdom with an active quiz society. Imperial is the regular host of the annual British Student Quiz Championships (BSQC) organised by UK Quizbowl, and participated in ACF Nationals for the first time in 2022. Imperial holds the record for the most series wins of the University Challenge quiz show, with 5 wins as of 2024. After the society's rapid growth in the late 2010s, Imperial won their first quizbowl title in the 28-team Southeast-Midwest Housewrite tournament with Imperial A players Michael Kohn, Enoch Yuen, Felix Roberts and Richard Brooks.
In 2023, a new team comprising Enoch Yuen, Michael Mays, Adam Jones, and Justin Lee achieved considerable success in UK tournaments. They emerged victorious in all the UK college quizbowl tournaments they participated in during 2023, including ARCADIA "2022", ACF Regionals, C++, MRNA, and ARCADIA 2023, where Nilai Sarda played in place of Adam. The same team also won the British Student Quiz Championships in 2023, providing Imperial with its first ever BSQC title.
History
Early period (1998-2003)
Imperial first participated in quizbowl after being invited to the 1997 ICT, in which they placed thirteenth. The quiz society at Imperial was first established in 1998[1] to host QuizIC, the first major inter-university quizbowl tournament in the United Kingdom, and the precursor to BSQC. In 2001, Imperial won University Challenge for the second time, and were runners-up the following year. Imperial was a regular participant in UK tournaments until the collapse of the UK quizbowl circuit following the 2003 BSQC, after which the society went dormant.
Re-establishment (2010-present)
Imperial returned to quizbowl in the 2010 SCT, the first inter-university quizbowl tournament held in the UK since the 2003 BSQC. In 2012, the quiz society was re-established, although membership was low for much of the 2010s, with infrequent tournament attendance. Society membership increased significantly at the end of the decade, under the leaderships of Richard Brooks and Conor McMeel, and Imperial began attending tournaments much more frequently. Imperial won their first tournament in the UK mirror of the 2021 Southeast-Midwest Housewrite, then placed fifth in BSQC 2021, achieving an upset victory over Cambridge A. Imperial qualified for ACF Nationals for the first time in 2022 after placing fourth in the 2022 ACF Regionals; a team of Justin Lee, Michael Mays, Felix Roberts and Fatima Sheriff placed 38th out of 51 in 2022 ACF Nationals, with 9 wins and 9 losses.
The 2022-23 academic year saw record success for Imperial. Imperial's novices placed first in the in-person edition of the British Novice tournament in December 2022, and then the Imperial A team kept a clean sheet for three successive tournaments: ARCADIA, ACF Regionals and C++. Imperial A then went on to win the 2023 BSQC, becoming the first university other than Oxford and Cambridge to place first since Manchester in 2002. They finished the academic year with a close victory over Cambridge in MRNA II.
Notable Players
- Michael Kohn
- Michael Mays
- Enoch Yuen
- Justin Lee
- Adam Jones
- Nilai Sarda
- Felix Roberts
- Fatima Sheriff
- Conor McMeel
- Richard Brooks
- Oscar O'Flanagan
- Jaime Salamanca Camacho
- Carlos Doebeli
- Gilbert Jackson
- Imran Abdul Rahman
- Jonah McDonald
- Rahim Dina
- Max Zeng
- Matthew Spry
- Owen Iredale
- Mattia Elkouby
- Gregor Wilson
- Justin Keung
- Bethany Howard
- Paphon Susikakosol
- Christine Hagerty
- Aden Ho
- Adam Turner
- Gus Redding
- Charlie Lowman
- Pietro Aronica
Tournaments Won
| Year | Tournament | Stats | Team Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Southeast-Midwest Housewrite | Stats | Enoch Yuen, Felix Roberts, Michael Kohn, Richard Brooks |
| 2021 | British Novice | Stats | Adam Jones, Jonah McDonald, Josh D’Aeth, Tony Wang |
| 2022 | British Novice | Stats | Aden Ho, Christine Hagerty, Gregor Wilson, Mattia Elkouby |
| 2023 | 2022 ARCADIA | Stats | Adam Jones, Enoch Yuen, Justin Lee, Michael Mays |
| 2023 | ACF Regionals | Stats | Adam Jones, Enoch Yuen, Justin Lee, Michael Mays |
| 2023 | C++ | Stats | Adam Jones, Enoch Yuen, Justin Lee, Michael Mays |
| 2023 | British Student Quiz Championships | Stats | Adam Jones, Enoch Yuen, Justin Lee, Michael Mays |
| 2023 | MRNA II | Stats | Adam Jones, Enoch Yuen, Justin Lee, Michael Mays |
| 2023 | 2023 ARCADIA | Stats | Enoch Yuen, Justin Lee, Michael Mays, Nilai Sarda |
Tournaments hosted
- British Novice 2017-19, 2022-24
- Harvard Fall Tournament XV Open 2024
- Booster Shot (aka MRNA III) 2024
- BSQC 1998, 2011-13, 2018-20, 2022-24
- ACF Regionals 2021, 2023-24
- ARCADIA 2021, 2023
- Open mirror of ICT 2023
- MRNA II: The Second Dose 2023
- THING 2022
- IKEA 2020
- Stevenson Memorial Tournament 2018
- NAQT Collegiate Novice 2017
- VCU Novice 2016
- Michigan Fall Tournament 2013
- Deep Bench 2012
External links
References
- ↑ https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/felixonlinearchive/issues/pdfs/felix_1134.pdf Felix issue 1139, 1999 » Archived 2023 Sep 21