One-person teams

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A one-person team (or one-man team) is a team with multiple players on it whose fate is perceived to be entirely tied to the scoring abilities of a single player. Literal "one-person" teams are typically referred to as solo instead.

The term is both laudatory and derisive - while it celebrates the skill of the "one-person" in question, it minimizes the contributions of their teammates (which are often significant) and carries with it the implication that the "one-person" is succeeding in part because of their lack of support. Because of the derogatory connotations, and especially the implied insult to the teammates of the "one-person," it is not a good idea to use this term in reference to any team in your tournament when you are the TD or moderator.

Examples

One-person teams are frequently successful at the local high school level and occasionally competitive nationally. They are vulnerable against well-balanced attacks from multiple good players at the highest levels of either high school or collegiate quizbowl, which frequently limits their placement.

High school

This table is a subset of teams which could be considered "one-player" since 2010, under the loose definition of "a single player with prelim PPG is 80% or more of a team's tossup points per game". Entry on this list has been limited to teams that fit this criteria while placing in the top 20 at either HSNCT or NSC.

School Players HSNCT NSC
2010 Alpharetta Nandhini Sundaresan, Kunal Naik, Gautam Narula, William Horton 16th
2010 Detroit Country Day Michael Dimattia, Neil Gurram, John Bernabei, Chris Schulte, Aamod Dekhne, Kevin Tan, Hannah Cheriyan 7th
2010 Georgetown Day A Casey Ebner, Matthew Jackson, Oliver Hudson, Daniel Branch-Neufeld, Alex Jiang 5th 5th
2010 St. Anselm's Jacob, Brendan, Aidan, Matt Bollinger 4th
2010 St. Ignatius Jake O'Shea, Amy Brabec, Brian Kenny, Vincent Kenny, Andrew Deveau, Michelle Yuen 43th 15th
2010 Torrey Pines A Chris Wu, Sharad Vikram, Howon Lee, Stephen Liu 7th
2010 Walt Whitman Alex Luta, Douglas Graebner, Oren Steinberg, Jeremy Steinberg, Todd Pollak, Alex Rosen 13th
2011 Alpharetta Nandhini Sundaresan, Kunal Naik, Gautam Narula, William Horton 13th
2011 Centennial Katherine Cannella, Nikhil Vallabhaneni, Adam Silverman, Jenny C. (?) 5th
2011 Copley Jeffrey Wang, Saajid Moyen, Edward Pang, Keval Yerigeri 13th
2011 Stevenson Eugene Bulkin, Mark Savin, Kevin Malis, Zach Blumenfeld, Joe Schlude, Collin Shapiro 4th
2011 St. Anselm Patrick Merkle, Aidan Mehigan, Brendan Ziebarth, Jacob Wasserman 19th
2011 St. Ignatius Vicky Del Real, Amy Brabec, John Lotus, Josh Mei, DePaul Ohiri, Andrew Deveau 8th
2012 Carbondale A Michael Steele, Natalie San, Prerak Trivedi, Ben Chametzky 5th
2012 Centennial Chris Olsen, Claire Garland, Will June, Tyler Knoblett, Adam Silverman, Rick Sheahan, Arun Doogar, Nikhil Vallabhaneni, Elliot Campos 102th 3rd
2012 New Trier Anne McLaughlin, Michael Goldman, Andrew Wang, Ying Han 18th
2012 St. Anselm's Abbey School Aidan Mehigan, Jacob Wasserman 12th
2012 Warren G. Harding Michael Coates, Joseph Angelo, Sam Eartly, Korey Gall 33th 19th
2013 Belvidere North A Conor Reilley, Emily Carrick, Patrick Moore, Dylan Minarik 13th 19th
2013 Ladue Ben Zhang, Haohang Xu, Max Schindler, Jialin Ding 1st
2013 Northmont Johnathan Yagisawa, Helena (?), Sam Blizzard, Tori Amos, Meghan Jenkins, Hao Tran, Erin Laing 21th 19th
2013 Thomas Jefferson A Raynor Kuang, Luke Waddell, Nadege Aoki, Sid Verma 7th
2014 Northmont Helena Jenkins, Meghan Jenkins, Sam Blizzard, Kara Combs 7th
2014 St. Joseph Dan Blackburn, Jack Mehr, Justin Lin, Greg Burton 19th
2014 Western Albemarle Patrick Andrews, Sam Lesemenn, Tim Dodson, Kelly Missett, Eric Xu, Sam Lesemann, Angela Li, Caroline Koester 8th 2nd
2015 Northmont Lauren Papp, Rachel Tracy, Sam Blizzard, Brendon Jenkins, Kara Combs 13th 12th
2015 Rancho Bernardo Omar El-Sabrout, HoWon Choo, Kion You, Bryan Ugaz 19th
2015 Western Albemarle Muhannah Hossain, Tim Dodson, Kelly Missett, Eric Xu, Sam Lesemann, Jackson Collins, Caroline Koester 5th 5th
2016 Rancho Bernardo Omar El-Sabrout, Kion You, Howon Choo, Bryan Ugaz 15th
2016 Rockford Auburn Ethan Strombeck, Cole Timmerwilke, Henry Roe 8th
2016 Westview Grace Tran, Jennie Wang, Shivank Nayak, Rahul Keyal, Jonathan Tran, Anish Sathe, Kevin Yu, Jordan Lei 53rd 14th
2017 Dublin Scioto High School Clark Smith, Gabriel Pinto, Sanjay Medicherla, Eddy Liu, Enoch Fu 6
2017 La Jolla Shane Pauker, James Malouf, Jennifer Andrey, Sam Kaseff 8
2017 Lehigh Valley Lucas Larkin, Jonathan Skee, Alex Schmidt, Ramon Torres 15th
2017 Naperville North Jacob Fisher, Shawn Yoshida, Emily Hou, Kelvin Li, Jason Hu, Jakob Myers 3rd 9th
2018 Battle Ground Cameron Clark, Max Dambach, Henry Dambach, Jack Lewis 32nd 16th
2018 Beavercreek Abby Cohen, Ziyi Zuo, Hari Parameswaran, David Cohen 5th 8th
2018 Crystal Springs Uplands Partha Rao, Alice Jiang, Justin French, Darren Jian 12th 7th
2018 Downingtown STEM Anish Gadgil, Vishwa Shanmugam, Max Lind, Rohan Vora 18
2018 Dublin Scioto Gabriel Pinto, Clark Smith, Visvam Srinivasan, Edward Liu 2
2018 Lehigh Valley Nathaniel Schmidt, Alex Schmidt 12th 21st
2018 Miami Valley William Groger, John John Groger 20th 34th
2019 Beavercreek Abby Cohen, Tiffany Zhou, Hari Parameswaran, Tegan Kapadia 1st 7th
2019 James E. Taylor William Golden, Jed Wang, Katie Sturzu, Mitchell Shadden 5th 2nd
2019 Georgetown Day Avani Ahuja, Matthew Siff, Arthur Delot-Vilain, Nathaniel Rosenberg, Alex Moon 31st 17th
2019 Rockford Auburn Ethan Strombeck, Justin Abel, Leif Verace, Lilly Chávez 8th 6th
2021 Lambert Anish Kayarthodi, Aadi Karthik, Justin Kim, Vishal Sareddy, Arjun Birthi, Adi Krish 19th 9th

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