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|Image = Harvard.gif
 
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|citystate = Cambridge, MA
 
|citystate = Cambridge, MA
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|president = [[Andrew Watkins]]
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|president = Jon Suh and Ricky Li (co-presidents)
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|nats = [[1995 ACF Nationals|1995 ACF]]; [[2008 NAQT ICT|2008 NAQT Undergraduate]]; [[2003 NAQT ICT|2003 NAQT Undergraduate]]; [[1998 NAQT ICT|1998 NAQT Division II]]; [[2000 NAQT ICT|2000 NAQT Division II]]; [[1995 College Bowl Nationals|1995 College Bowl]]
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|nats = [[1995 ACF Nationals|1995 ACF]]; [[2008 ICT|2008 NAQT Undergraduate]]; [[2003 ICT|2003 NAQT Undergraduate]]; [[2012 ICT|2012 NAQT Division II]]; [[2000 ICT|2000 NAQT Division II]];[[1998 ICT|1998 NAQT Division II]]; [[1995 College Bowl Nationals|1995 College Bowl]]; [[2014 ICT|2014 NAQT Division II]]
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|website = https://www.harvard.edu/
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'''Harvard''' is a large private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It participates in [[ACF]], [[mACF]], and [[NAQT]] tournaments.
 
'''Harvard''' is a large private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It participates in [[ACF]], [[mACF]], and [[NAQT]] tournaments.
  
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Jeff Johnson led Harvard to a series of successes in the second half of the nineties, retiring after their 3rd and 2nd place finishes in the 1997 ICT and ACF tournaments.
 
Jeff Johnson led Harvard to a series of successes in the second half of the nineties, retiring after their 3rd and 2nd place finishes in the 1997 ICT and ACF tournaments.
  
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Harvard performed the notable feat of qualifying three teams for the 2000 NAQT ICT at nearby BU with a total of five players. (Harvard hosted the SCT and had very few people available). Two of the teams consisted of Jeff Johnson and Vik Vaz playing solo.
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Harvard performed the notable feat of qualifying three teams for the 2000 NAQT ICT at nearby Boston University with a total of five players. Harvard hosted the SCT and had very few people available. Two of the teams consisted of Jeff Johnson and Vik Vaz playing solo.
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The club was quite large, sending as many as seven teams to local tournaments through the end of the nineties. A precipitous decline followed.
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Vik Vaz, Dan Suzman, Jim Davis, and Frank Kelly won the ICT undergrad title in 2003. Harvard (Dan Suzman, Paco Brito, Jim Davis) returned to the undergrad final in 2004 before falling to Illinois. The same year, Harvard's Division II team (Sarah Watson, Noam Lerer, Eric Nielsen, Alexandra Helprin) finished third after losing in a tiebreaker. Harvard (Dan Suzman, Frank Kelly, Will Rooke) took third in the undergraduate division in 2005 after losing a tiebreaker to Carlton. In 2006, Harvard again qualified one undergrad team, which registered but couldn't be bothered to show up. People were rightfully pretty angry.
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But Harvard's all-freshman Division II team that year (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Sam Lederer, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) came on their own and took second place after falling to Stanford in the final.  In 2007, Harvard's all-sophomore team (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Julia Schlozman, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) placed second after losing to Carlton in the undergraduate final. As juniors, that same team won the Undergraduate title at the 2008 ICT.  
  
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The club was quite large, sending as many as seven teams to local tournaments through the end of the nineties.  A preciptious decline followed.
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From 2009 to 2011, Harvard A did not win any games at the DI ICT.
  
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Vik Vaz, Dan Suzman, Jim Davis, and Frank Kelly won the ICT undergrad title in 2003.  Harvard (Dan Suzman, Paco Brito, Jim Davis) returned to the undergrad final in 2004 before falling to Illinois.  The same year, Harvard's Division II team (Sarah Watson, Noam Lerer, Eric Nielsen, Alexandra Helprin) finished third after losing in a tiebreaker.  Harvard (Dan Suzman, Frank Kelly, Will Rooke) took third in the undergraduate division in 2005 after losing a tiebreaker to Carlton.  In 2006, Harvard again qualified one undergrad team, which registered but couldn't be bothered to show up.  People were rightfully pretty angry.  But Harvard's all-freshman Division II team (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Sam Lederer, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) came on their own and took second place after falling to Stanford in the final. In 2007, Harvard's all-sophomore team (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Julia Schlozman, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) placed second after losing to Carlton in the undergraduate final. As juniors, that same team won the Undergraduate title at the 2008 ICT. In 2009, a Harvard undergraduate team consisting of Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Ted Gioia, Andy Watkins, and Dallas Simons defeated Minnesota in a tight two-game final to repeat as ICT undergraduate champions, also finishing in third place overall.  Harvard has thus placed in the top three of the undergraduate division at six of the past seven ICTs with teams consisting of thirteen different people.
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Harvard placed fifth overall at the [[2014 ACF Nationals]]. Harvard's B team won the DII title at the [[2018 ACF Nationals]] by virtue of being the only DII team in the field.
  
 
==Tournaments==
 
==Tournaments==
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In addition to occasionally hosting [[ACF]] or [[NAQT]] tournaments, Harvard runs an annual high school tournament, the [[Harvard Fall Tournament]]. Previously, it held the packet-submission [[T Party]] invitational for several years, a tradition that will be revived in December 2008.  The club also plans to host the [[Harvard Open]] in the spring of 2009.
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In addition to occasionally hosting [[ACF]] or [[NAQT]] tournaments, Harvard runs an annual high school tournament, the [[Harvard Fall Tournament]]. Under the now disgraced leadership of [[Andy Watkins]], the team hosted two packet-submission regular-difficulty [[T-Party]] events and two housewritten nationals-difficulty [[Harvard International]]s.
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===HFT===
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Harvard has produced HFT since 2006 designed to be a challenging set for high school quizbowlers (hence the designation "regular-plus" difficulty). While generally well received, HFT has long faced criticisms for being too difficult. Recent iterations of the set have shown to be more accessible.
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==Media Exposure==
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In late 2008, the Harvard quizbowl team became the center of [[2008 Harvard Crimson article|two articles]] by student journalist Christian B. Flow, who practiced and traveled with the team for a number of weeks. These articles were extremely well received by the Quiz Bowl community.
  
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==Media Attention==
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The Watkinsgate scandal generated significant national media coverage, from outlets like ''The Boston Globe''<ref>[https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/22/harvard-stripped-four-quiz-bowl-championships-after-student-improperly-accessed-information/ZZorJiqz91QRF6b5ocUcoL/story.html]</ref>, ''Los Angeles Times'', and others.
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In late 2008, the Harvard quizbowl team became the center of two [[2008 Harvard Crimson article|articles]] by student journalist Christian B. Flow, who practiced and traveled with the team for a number of weeks. These articles were extremely well received by the Quiz Bowl community.
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== Nationals Results ==
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{| class="wikitable"
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!  !! ACF Nationals (2005–) !! Division I ICT !! Division II ICT
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|-
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| 1997 ||  ||colspan="2"|A: 2nd<br/>B: 38th
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|-
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| 1998 ||  || 3rd || 22nd
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|-
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| 1999 ||  || 6th || 4th
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|-
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| 2000 ||  || A: 5th<br/>B: 22nd || '''1st'''
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|-
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| 2001 ||  || 15th ||
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|-
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| 2002 ||  || 9th ||
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|-
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| 2003 ||  || '''7th (1st UG)''' ||
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|-
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| 2004 ||  || 8th || 3rd
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|-
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| 2005 || 7th || 11th ||
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|-
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| 2006 ||  ||  || 2nd
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|-
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| 2007 ||  || 10th || 4th
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|-
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| 2008 || A: 10th<br/>B: 17th || 8th (1st UG) || 18th
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|-
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| 2009 || 6th || 32nd* || 10th
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|-
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| 2010 || 10th || 32nd* || 6th
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|-
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| 2011 || 6th || 32nd* || 17th
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|-
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| 2012 || 5th || 6th || '''1st'''
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|-
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| 2013 || 9th || 10th || 4th
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|-
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| 2014 || 5th || 9th || '''1st'''
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|-
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| 2015 || 15th || 17th ||
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|-
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| 2016 || 22nd || 12th || 11th
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|-
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| 2017 || 21st ||  || 9th
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|-
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| 2018 || A: 24th<br/>'''B: 45th (1st DII)''' || 22nd || 2nd
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|-
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| 2019 || A: 20th<br/>'''B: 24th (1st DII)''' || 25th || A: 4th<br/>B:32nd
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|}
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<nowiki>*</nowiki>Due to the [[Andy Watkins Cheating Scandal|Andy Watkins cheating scandal]], all of Harvard A's victories at the 2009, 2010, and 2011 ICTs were revoked.
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==Current Players==
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As of 2019-20 season:
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{{Columns-list|colwidth=200px|
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* [[Chloe Levine]]
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* [[Thomas Gioia]]
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* [[Chris Gilmer-Hill]]
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* [[Jason Golfinos]]
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* [[Mazin Omer]]
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* [[Justin Duffy]]
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* [[Michael Yue]]
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* [[Jonathan Suh]]
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* [[Kelvin Li]]
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* [[Ricky Li]]
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}}
  
 
==Former Players==
 
==Former Players==
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{{Columns-list|colwidth=200px|
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* [[Stephen Liu]]
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* Nathaniel Brodsky
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* Jiho Park
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* Erik Owen
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* Roger Jin
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* [[Raynor Kuang]]
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* Robert Chu
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* Vimal Konduri
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* [[David Liu]]
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* [[Kuo-Kai Chin]]
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* Andy Dibble
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* [[Umang Shukla]]
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* [[Adam Hallowell]]
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* [[Andy Watkins]]
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* [[Bruce Arthur]]
 
* [[Jeff Johnson]]
 
* [[Jeff Johnson]]
 
* [[Vik Vaz]]
 
* [[Vik Vaz]]
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* [[Ruvani Fonseka]]
 
* [[Ruvani Fonseka]]
 
* [[Matt Bruce]]
 
* [[Matt Bruce]]
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==Current Players==
 
 
* [[Ted Gioia]]
 
* [[Ted Gioia]]
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* [[Bruce Arthur]]
 
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* [[Andy Watkins]]
 
 
* [[Dallas Simons]]
 
* [[Dallas Simons]]
 
* [[Dennis Sun]]
 
* [[Dennis Sun]]
 
* [[Yi Sun]]
 
* [[Yi Sun]]
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* [[Adam Hallowell]]
 
 
* [[Alice Tzeng]]
 
* [[Alice Tzeng]]
 
* [[Brian Young]]
 
* [[Brian Young]]
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* [[Meryl Federman]]
 
* [[Meryl Federman]]
 
* [[Manny Antunes]]
 
* [[Manny Antunes]]
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* [[Umang Shukla]]
 
 
* [[Sam Peterson]]
 
* [[Sam Peterson]]
 
* [[Siva Sundaram]]
 
* [[Siva Sundaram]]
 
* [[Zhao Zhang]]
 
* [[Zhao Zhang]]
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* [[Luke Minton]]
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* [[Kevin Huang]]
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* [[Patrick Magee]]
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}}
  
 
==Title Succession==
 
==Title Succession==
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division I Undergraduate
 
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division I Undergraduate
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|year = [[2003 NAQT ICT|2003]]
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|year = [[2003 ICT|2003]]
 
|previous = [[2002 Princeton|Princeton]]
 
|previous = [[2002 Princeton|Princeton]]
 
|next = [[2004 Illinois|Illinois]]
 
|next = [[2004 Illinois|Illinois]]
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division I Undergraduate
 
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division I Undergraduate
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|year = [[2008 NAQT ICT|2008]]
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|year = [[2008 ICT|2008]]
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|previous = [[2007 Carleton|Carleton]]
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|previous = [[2007 Carleton College|Carleton College]]
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|next = current
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|next = [[2009 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 
| }}
 
| }}
  
 
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division II
 
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division II
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|year = [[1998 NAQT ICT|1998]]
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|year = [[1998 ICT|1998]]
 
|previous = None
 
|previous = None
 
|next = [[1999 Princeton|Princeton]]
 
|next = [[1999 Princeton|Princeton]]
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division II
 
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division II
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|year = [[2000 NAQT ICT|2000]]
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|year = [[2000 ICT|2000]]
 
|previous = [[1999 Princeton|Princeton]]
 
|previous = [[1999 Princeton|Princeton]]
 
|next = [[2001 Pitt|Pitt]]
 
|next = [[2001 Pitt|Pitt]]
 
| }}
 
| }}
  
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division I Overall
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division II
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|year = [[2010 NAQT ICT|2010]]
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|year = [[2012 ICT|2012]]
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|previous = [[2009 Chicago|Chicago]]
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|previous = [[2011 Yale|Yale]]
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|next = none
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|next = [[Stanford]]
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| }}
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division II
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|year = [[2014 ICT|2014]]
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|previous = [[Stanford]]
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|next = [[Texas]]
 
| }}
 
| }}
  
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Division II
 
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Division II
 
|year = [[1998 ACF Nationals|1998]]
 
|year = [[1998 ACF Nationals|1998]]
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|previous = [[1997 Carleton|Carleton]]
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|previous = [[1997 Carleton College|Carleton College]]
 
|next = [[1999 Arkansas|Arkansas]]
 
|next = [[1999 Arkansas|Arkansas]]
 
| }}
 
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| }}
  
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==External Links==
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Division II
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[http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~cbowl/ Official Website]
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|year = [[2018 ACF Nationals|2018]], [[2019 ACF Nationals|2019]]
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|previous = MIT B
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|next = N/A
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| }}
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==References==
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{{Reflist}}
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{{College champions}}
  
 
[[Category: College clubs]]
 
[[Category: College clubs]]
 
[[Category: Programs that have won ACF Nationals]]
 
[[Category: Programs that have won ACF Nationals]]
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[[Category: Programs that have won NAQT ICT Division I Overall]]
 
[[Category: Programs that have won NAQT ICT Undergraduate]]
 
[[Category: Programs that have won NAQT ICT Undergraduate]]
 
[[Category: Programs that have won NAQT ICT Division II]]
 
[[Category: Programs that have won NAQT ICT Division II]]
 
[[Category: Programs that have won College Bowl Nationals]]
 
[[Category: Programs that have won College Bowl Nationals]]
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[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]
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[[Category: Original QBWiki Page]]
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[[Category: Harvard]]

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Harvard
Harvard.gif
Location:
Cambridge, MA
Current President or Coach Jon Suh and Ricky Li (co-presidents)
National championships 1995 ACF; 2008 NAQT Undergraduate; 2003 NAQT Undergraduate; 2012 NAQT Division II; 2000 NAQT Division II;1998 NAQT Division II; 1995 College Bowl; 2014 NAQT Division II
NAQT Page link
Website link

Harvard is a large private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It participates in ACF, mACF, and NAQT tournaments.

History

Jeff Johnson led Harvard to a series of successes in the second half of the nineties, retiring after their 3rd and 2nd place finishes in the 1997 ICT and ACF tournaments.

Harvard performed the notable feat of qualifying three teams for the 2000 NAQT ICT at nearby Boston University with a total of five players. Harvard hosted the SCT and had very few people available. Two of the teams consisted of Jeff Johnson and Vik Vaz playing solo.

The club was quite large, sending as many as seven teams to local tournaments through the end of the nineties. A precipitous decline followed.

Vik Vaz, Dan Suzman, Jim Davis, and Frank Kelly won the ICT undergrad title in 2003. Harvard (Dan Suzman, Paco Brito, Jim Davis) returned to the undergrad final in 2004 before falling to Illinois. The same year, Harvard's Division II team (Sarah Watson, Noam Lerer, Eric Nielsen, Alexandra Helprin) finished third after losing in a tiebreaker. Harvard (Dan Suzman, Frank Kelly, Will Rooke) took third in the undergraduate division in 2005 after losing a tiebreaker to Carlton. In 2006, Harvard again qualified one undergrad team, which registered but couldn't be bothered to show up. People were rightfully pretty angry.

But Harvard's all-freshman Division II team that year (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Sam Lederer, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) came on their own and took second place after falling to Stanford in the final. In 2007, Harvard's all-sophomore team (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Julia Schlozman, John Lesieutre, Adam Hallowell) placed second after losing to Carlton in the undergraduate final. As juniors, that same team won the Undergraduate title at the 2008 ICT.

From 2009 to 2011, Harvard A did not win any games at the DI ICT.

Harvard placed fifth overall at the 2014 ACF Nationals. Harvard's B team won the DII title at the 2018 ACF Nationals by virtue of being the only DII team in the field.

Tournaments

In addition to occasionally hosting ACF or NAQT tournaments, Harvard runs an annual high school tournament, the Harvard Fall Tournament. Under the now disgraced leadership of Andy Watkins, the team hosted two packet-submission regular-difficulty T-Party events and two housewritten nationals-difficulty Harvard Internationals.

HFT

Harvard has produced HFT since 2006 designed to be a challenging set for high school quizbowlers (hence the designation "regular-plus" difficulty). While generally well received, HFT has long faced criticisms for being too difficult. Recent iterations of the set have shown to be more accessible.

Media Exposure

In late 2008, the Harvard quizbowl team became the center of two articles by student journalist Christian B. Flow, who practiced and traveled with the team for a number of weeks. These articles were extremely well received by the Quiz Bowl community.

The Watkinsgate scandal generated significant national media coverage, from outlets like The Boston Globe[1], Los Angeles Times, and others.

Nationals Results

ACF Nationals (2005–) Division I ICT Division II ICT
1997 A: 2nd
B: 38th
1998 3rd 22nd
1999 6th 4th
2000 A: 5th
B: 22nd		 1st
2001 15th
2002 9th
2003 7th (1st UG)
2004 8th 3rd
2005 7th 11th
2006 2nd
2007 10th 4th
2008 A: 10th
B: 17th		 8th (1st UG) 18th
2009 6th 32nd* 10th
2010 10th 32nd* 6th
2011 6th 32nd* 17th
2012 5th 6th 1st
2013 9th 10th 4th
2014 5th 9th 1st
2015 15th 17th
2016 22nd 12th 11th
2017 21st 9th
2018 A: 24th
B: 45th (1st DII)		 22nd 2nd
2019 A: 20th
B: 24th (1st DII)		 25th A: 4th
B:32nd

*Due to the Andy Watkins cheating scandal, all of Harvard A's victories at the 2009, 2010, and 2011 ICTs were revoked.

Current Players

As of 2019-20 season:

Former Players

Title Succession

ACF Nationals Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Chicago
1995
Georgia Tech
NAQT ICT Division I Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Princeton
2003
Illinois
NAQT ICT Division I Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Carleton College
2008
Minnesota
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
None
1998
Princeton
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Princeton
2000
Pitt
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Yale
2012
Stanford
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Stanford
2014
Texas

College Bowl Title Succession

College Bowl Nationals Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Chicago
1995
Michigan

Unofficial title succession

ACF Nationals Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Princeton
2003, 2004, 2005
Chicago
ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Carleton College
1998
Arkansas
ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Princeton
2004
Chicago
ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
MIT B
2018, 2019
N/A

References

College champions

ACF Nationals
1991: Tennessee · 1993: Chicago · 1994: Chicago · 1995: Harvard · 1996: Georgia Tech · 1997: Virginia · 1998: Virginia · 1999: Chicago · 2000: Chicago · 2001: Michigan · 2002: Michigan · 2003: Berkeley · 2004: Chicago · 2005: Michigan · 2006: Texas A&M · 2007: Chicago · 2008: Chicago · 2009: Chicago · 2010: Stanford · 2011: Yale · 2012: Yale · 2013: Illinois · 2014: Virginia · 2015: Penn · 2016: Michigan · 2017: Maryland · 2018: Chicago · 2019: Columbia · 2020: n/a · 2021: Florida · 2022: Georgia Tech · 2023: Georgia Tech · 2024: Chicago
NAQT ICT
1997: Chicago · 1998: Stanford · 1999: Chicago · 2000: Illinois · 2001: Chicago · 2002: Michigan · 2003: Chicago · 2004: Berkeley · 2005: Michigan · 2006: Berkeley · 2007: Chicago · 2008: Maryland · 2009: Chicago · 2010: Chicago · 2011: Minnesota · 2012: Virginia · 2013: Yale · 2014: Virginia · 2015: Virginia · 2016: Chicago · 2017: Michigan · 2018: Yale · 2019: Yale · 2020: n/a · 2021: Columbia · 2022: Stanford · 2023: Cornell · 2024: Chicago
Lists
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