Bruce Lou

Bruce Lou
Noted subjects	History, Some Other Things
Current college	Berkeley (2015-2019)
High school	Saratoga (2013-2015)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Bruce Lou is a junior at UC Berkeley, class of '19; he previously attended Saratoga High School. He is best known for his achievements in History Bowl, as he did not start playing Quiz Bowl until 2014; however, he has won several notable titles in both.

He first entered national prominence when he won the 2014 US History Bee, where he faced off against Sameer Rai in the finals. Interestingly, both competitors only competed at the continued insistence of Ankit Aggarwal. In addition, Bruce led the Saratoga team to 2nd place in the 2014 National History Bowl, where they lost to LASA in the finals. That year, he also attended his second quiz bowl tournament ever, the 2014 NASAT, where he was the top scorer on a 3rd place Team California of him, Kevin Wang, Hidehiro Anto, and Aseem Keyal.

In 2015, Bruce led (arguably even carried) Saratoga to the national title in the Bowl, defeating LASA in a rematch of the previous year's final (winning on the final tossup of the game). Lou also performed the first-ever clean sweep of the NHBB, placing first in the National History Bee and National History Bowl, as well as first in the US History Bee for the second consecutive time. He played at the 2015 PACE NSC as a solo team, placing 27th. He also participated in the 2015 NASAT, where he was once again the top scorer on a 1st place Team California of him, Kevin Wang, Justin Nghiem, and Kion You.

He was named a member of the Second Team for the 2015 HSQBRank All-World Teams.