Shiva Oswal

Shiva Oswal
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Noted subjects	History, Mythology, Generalist
High school	Pi-oneers (2018 -
Middle school	Pi-oneers (2014 - 2018)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

General

Shiva Oswal is a resident of Cupertino, CA, and is an avid Quiz Bowl Player. He has participated in Middle School and High School tournaments at the local, state, and national level. Shiva first started playing Quiz Bowl in 5th grade and since then has played in over 25 major Quiz Bowl tournaments wherein he has played close to 300 games.

Notable Achievements

Shiva first entered national prominence when he became the youngest player to be an All Star Player at the 2015 Middle School National Championship Tournament (MSNCT-15). Since then, he has been National All Star in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

In January 2017, NAQT began its program of honoring top teams and players each week. As part of this program, Shiva was named the first ever NAQT Middle School Player of the Week for the week of Jan 7, 2017. Later, Shiva was also named to the first ever National Middle School Quiz Bowl A Team for 2017.

Shiva created history at 2018 MSNCT [1] when he single handedly beat top middle school teams in the nation to emerge as NAQT's first ever solo winner at any major National Quiz Bowl championship. Three weeks later, he again created history, leading Pi-oneers to two more solo tournament victories, this time at the National History Bowl and the National Academic Bowl, respectively. He also won the National Science Bee, and secured third in the USABB National Academic Bee, finishing after Robert Muñiz and Karsten Rynearson.

The Team

Shiva Oswal leads and is the captain of Team Pi-oneers and has participated in multiple tournaments (with fellow team members Josh Rollin and Dalton Manbeck-Mosig) in the years 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Other

He is notable for wearing crocs at all times. Quora Account