Ashvin Srivatsa

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

Ashvin Srivatsa is a current player at Yale, formerly of Sycamore 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. 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 also the developer of Excelsior Rankings, a potential replacement for David Bykowski's discontinued rankings of high school teams, which was itself discontinued.

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