Jade Dai

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Jade Dai
Noted subjects History (Military history burning grind), Geography, Politics, Current Events, Christian literature, Soccer
High school Plano West (2024 - )
Stats HDWhite • NAQT

Jade Dai, a current member of the Plano West quiz bowl team, is the former president of the Jasper High School Quiz Bowl team and the Rice Middle School Quiz Bowl teams, succeeding Abraham Zhang and Frank (Zihan) Xu and preceding Goutham Krishna Ronanki and Alexander Zhao. He has maintained a five-year status in Quiz Bowl, participating in the 2020 and 2022 PISD Middle School Quiz Bowl Championship, and for Jasper the 2023 and 2024 PISD Quiz Bowl High School Championship, the 2022 TQBA Kickoff XVIII Tailgate Classic, the 2023 ILLIAC Playtest Mirror (where Jasper most certainly beat up Ivy League teams), the 2023 TQBA Kickoff XIX Tailgate Classic, the Plano West-hosted LUKA III tournament, the 2023 St. Marks Invitational, the 2024 Costa Rica International Pool Bash, the 2024 L. D. Bell Invitational, the 2024 HAMLET hosted by Tanay Bodducherla and Aatreyo Bhattacharya of Mira Loma High School, and the 2024 Maryland Spring Invitational, and the 2024 Geography Front II. He has additionally obtained the distinction of participating in the 2024 NAQT Individual Player Nationals Championship Tournament, grabbing an 147th place out of 261, and obtaining a record 23th place in the History subcategory, ahead of 2024 champion Ali Hamzeh, and the 2024 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament in Atlanta, Georgia. He has traditionally been a highly active member and constantly attends quiz bowl meetings for his competitiveness and recreation. He has additionally revived Jasper Quiz Bowl, through his essential outreach managers, from a state of dysfunction to a thriving club with 125 members. Jade specializes in history, geography, current events, politics, Christian literature, and soccer. He is also the manager of the NAQT-sponsored buzzword community identified as the "International Jasper High School Association's Buzzword Grind". Current or past Jasper players are always welcome to join the Buzzword league if they contact Jade Dai#2909 on Discord. He is additionally a member of the Buzzword societies of "Buzzword Southeast" and "Quizbowl Discord". Lastly, Jade is a highly active member of Sporcle. Known by the username CheeseBologna, he has played 10,634 quizzes, created 2 quizzes with an average rating of 4.55 out of 5, won 1114 challenges, and won 62 showdowns. He is hoping to become the curator for history (politics) someday.