Ashvin Srivatsa

Ashvin Srivatsa
Noted subjects	Science, Indian things
Current college	Yale (2010-)
High school	Sycamore High School (2006-2010)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Ashvin Srivatsa is a current player at Yale University, formerly of Sycamore High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He spent the first three years of his quizbowl career playing terrible OAC questions in the Greater Miami Conference, mostly because Cincinnati is a desolate quizbowl wasteland save for Walnut Hills High School. Upon discovering the forums one day while investigating the notion of quizbowl that did not suck, he decided to stop being bad at quizbowl, and so he attended a few good tournaments his senior year. He also attended the 2010 HSNCT, where his team proceeded to finish a meager 4-6 in prelims. He was part of the 2011 DII ICT team that rode Matt Jackson's coattails to victory.

He is a member of HSAPQ as of the 2011-12 question-writing year. He is also the developer of Excelsior Rankings, a potential replacement for David Bykowski's rankings of high school teams that was discontinued some time in 2008 or 2009.

On the national forums, he is currently known as Excelsior (smack), and on the Ohio forums, his username is shsguy.

Writing

• 2011 BHSAT - writer and guy who assembles packets at 7 am on tournament day
• 2011 OAC - writer

Tournaments Attended

• 2006-07 Greater Miami Conference league - Sycamore JV finished ?? out of 10 teams with a 5-4(?) record

 

• 2007 Amelia - Sycamore JV A finished 1st out of 8(?) teams with a ??-0 record
• 2007-08 Greater Miami Conference league - Sycamore JV finished 1st out of 10 teams with a 8-1(?) record

 

• 2008-09 Greater Miami Conference league - Sycamore Varsity finished 1st out of 10 teams with a 17-1 record; 1st-team all-conference
• 2009 Greater Miami Conference tournament - Sycamore finished 2nd out of 10 teams with a 4-2(?) record
• 2009 Cincinnati State - Sycamore finished 1st out of ?? teams with a ??-0 record

 

• 2009 Rowdy Raider - Sycamore A finished t8th out of 32 teams with a 4-4 record; 45 prelim ppg
• 2010 Northmont Academic Challenge Tournament - Sycamore A finished 5th out of 32 teams with a 9-1 record
• 2009-10 Greater Miami Conference league - Sycamore Varsity finished 1st out of 10 teams with a 17-1 record; all-conference player of the year
• 2010 Greater Miami Conference tournament - Sycamore finished 2nd out of 10 teams with a 5-1 record
• 2010 Raider Academic Winter Rumble - Sycamore finished 5th out of 24 teams with a 6-2 record; 2nd-place individual scorer with 104 prelim ppg; qualified for HSNCT
• 2010 OAC Southwest Regional - Sycamore finished 1st out of 16 teams with a 7-1 record; qualified for OAC States
• 2010 OAC States - Sycamore finished 4th out of 12 teams with a 4-3 record
• 2010 HSNCT - Sycamore finished 127th out of 200 teams with a 4-6 record; 47.91 prelim pp20tuh

 

• 2010 EFT Brown - Yale B finished 3rd out of 16 teams with a 11-2 record; 27.14 prelim ppg
• 2010 ACF Fall Brandeis - Yale A finished 2nd out of 21 teams with a 9-2 record; 3.64 overall ppg because jesus christ playing with Matt Jackson on easy questions is futile
• 2011 TIT Yale - Yale A finished 2nd out of 7 teams with an 8-3 record; 9.09 overall ppg
• 2011 SCT Region 1 Harvard - Yale C (DII) finished 1st out of 8 teams with an 11-0 record; 23.17 prelim ppg; automatic qualification for ICT
• 2011 Penn Bowl - Yale finished 5th out of 18 teams with a 7-4 record; 26.88 prelim ppg
• 2011 ACF Regionals Brown - Yale B finished 4th out of 6 teams with a 4-6 record; 25.50 overall ppg
• 2011 ICT - Yale (DII) finished 1st out of 32 teams with a 14-0 record; 37.35 prelim ppg
• 2011 MUT Harvard - Yale A finished 3rd out of 6 teams with a 7-3 record; 32.00 overall ppg

Trivia

• Has correctly answered exactly one literature tossup in a college tournament to date (She Stoops to Conquer at 2011 MUT)