- Tejas Raje
Tejas is very, very good at history, especially world history (peep the WORLDSTAR stats!). He holds off #2 since closed UChicago practices means there's a dearth of available evidence on just how good Matthew is now. - Matthew Lehmann
The second-best classics player in his family and second-best history player on this list. - Sam Winikow
- Dan Puma
Neither of the previous two players show up to things, but they're still presumably huge history nerds who would do well at tournaments. - Ben Miller
Damn guess UChicago is still getting good first-years. - John Lawrence
Gets a history bump at Oxford Open. - Ike Jose
- Alston Boyd
Until Ike takes off for Japan, he remains on top of Alston. - Ryan Rosenberg
- Olivia Kiser
Both Olivia and I specialize in different narrow parts of Eastern European history -- not a recipe for raking in the points! - Tim Morrison
- James Lasker
Dual-wielders of science and history - Jonathan Wang
Very impressive as a first-year who didn't play qb in HS. - Nolan Winkler
- Kai Smith
uh Nolan probably still can buzz on HS stock clues, knew more of them than Kai once upon a time - Edgar Lin
Fun fact: Edgar was one of the most category-balanced players by BPA at CMST. - Grant Li
Didn't really need to learn much history on last year's TJ, but still a fine generalist. - Bryan Berend
Lots of general knowledge. Gave a cool presentation on quipus at work once. - Christine Gu
Deep knowledge of Chinese history. - Halle Friedman
Rounded into a solid humanities-focused generalist at low levels. - Adam Thorp
AB's current roommate and the former roommate of Athena/Marianna/RR, Adam hasn't played since HS but nonetheless has a lot of deep knowledge about American history, especially if it's in any way related to newspapers, St. Louis, newspapers, socialism, agrarianism, or newspapers. - Naomi Sweeting
Although she's best-known for being ridiculously good at math, Naomi is also a solid history player, especially on French things. - Kyle Asta
Kyle can get American history pretty reliably. - Alex Damisch
the detailed stats that Alex and I, uh, hand-compiled from SCT last year inform me that Alex went 1/2/0 on history. - Samir Khan
I don't know if I've ever seen Samir get a history tossup, but he fits the requirements otherwise!
Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
- ryanrosenberg
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Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
To much popular demand, your intrepid authors RR and AB are here to bring you the first-ever History Player Ranking for the city of Chicago. Note that this is Chicago proper, so players who live in Evanston, Wilmette, Winnetka, and Minneapolis are not eligible. Sorry ahead of time for people we didn't know lived in Chicago or who we forgot about.
Last edited by ryanrosenberg on Fri Nov 23, 2018 11:58 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Ryan Rosenberg
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
- ryanrosenberg
- Auron
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
whoops I don't know what the edit button looks like
Ryan Rosenberg
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
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- Yuna
- Posts: 973
- Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:31 pm
- Location: Indiana
Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
It's pretty cruel to make a list of the best history players in East Naperville and leave out regular Naperville
Jakob M. (they/them)
Michigan State '21, Indiana '2?
"No one has ever organized a greater effort to get people interested in pretending to play quiz bowl"
-Ankit Aggarwal
Michigan State '21, Indiana '2?
"No one has ever organized a greater effort to get people interested in pretending to play quiz bowl"
-Ankit Aggarwal
- ryanrosenberg
- Auron
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
I invite you to make and post your list of the 25 best history players in the greater Naperville areaAn Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 12:30 am It's pretty cruel to make a list of the best history players in East Naperville and leave out regular Naperville
Ryan Rosenberg
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
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- Yuna
- Posts: 973
- Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:31 pm
- Location: Indiana
Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
OK.Geriatric trauma wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 1:25 am I invite you to make and post your list of the 25 best history players in the greater Naperville area
1. Me, the most important part of this list and also the protagonist of reality
2-25. The first 24 people in your dumb list lol
Govind, Asil, and Arjun should also be in there somewhere but I don't know where
Jakob M. (they/them)
Michigan State '21, Indiana '2?
"No one has ever organized a greater effort to get people interested in pretending to play quiz bowl"
-Ankit Aggarwal
Michigan State '21, Indiana '2?
"No one has ever organized a greater effort to get people interested in pretending to play quiz bowl"
-Ankit Aggarwal
- Father of the Ragdoll
- Rikku
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
Why not both?
Brad Maclaine, né McLain
(they/them)
The University of Texas at Austin - Ph.D. Human Development and Family Sciences, 202X; M.S. Social Work, 2021
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - B.S. Psychology, 2019
Rockford Auburn High School - 2015
(they/them)
The University of Texas at Austin - Ph.D. Human Development and Family Sciences, 202X; M.S. Social Work, 2021
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - B.S. Psychology, 2019
Rockford Auburn High School - 2015
- Good Goblin Housekeeping
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
yo why you disrespecting the best player to come out of westmont hsAn Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 2:50 amOK.Geriatric trauma wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 1:25 am I invite you to make and post your list of the 25 best history players in the greater Naperville area
1. Me, the most important part of this list and also the protagonist of reality
2-25. The first 24 people in your dumb list lol
Govind, Asil, and Arjun should also be in there somewhere but I don't know where
Andrew Wang
Illinois 2016
Illinois 2016
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
Adam Silverman lives in Andersonville these days, so, uh, you're missing someone.
EDIT: possibly Edgewater or Rogers Park
EDIT: possibly Edgewater or Rogers Park
Greg Peterson
Northwestern University '18
Lawrence University '11
Maine South HS '07
"a decent player" - Mike Cheyne
Northwestern University '18
Lawrence University '11
Maine South HS '07
"a decent player" - Mike Cheyne
- ryanrosenberg
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
oh really i thought he lived in the lab
Ryan Rosenberg
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
- Maxwell Sniffingwell
- Auron
- Posts: 2164
- Joined: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:22 pm
- Location: Des Moines, IA
Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
valid
Greg Peterson
Northwestern University '18
Lawrence University '11
Maine South HS '07
"a decent player" - Mike Cheyne
Northwestern University '18
Lawrence University '11
Maine South HS '07
"a decent player" - Mike Cheyne
Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
can confirm that both of these things are true (even though I suck at history)cornfused wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 10:05 pmvalid
Adam Silverman
BS Georgia Tech '16
PhD Northwestern '21
BS Georgia Tech '16
PhD Northwestern '21
Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
Just for the record this is definitely wrong, Loyola was so bad at history that when Dave Madden asked us whether we wanted to come to NHBB nats Nolan laughed at him
Morgan Venkus
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
New rankings! Instead of ranking players who live in Chicago, I'm instead ranking players who are "Chicagoan" (i.e., play in Chicago tournaments and generally affect an air of "being from Chicago").
- Jakob Myers
Despite not actually living in or being from Chicago, Jakob gets included because he comes to stuff and we like him. - Tejas Raje
- Matthew Lehmann
- Rob Carson
Fun fact: "Second City" actually refers to Chicago being the other Twin City. - Ryan Rosenberg
- Adam Silverman
- Alston Boyd
- Connie Prater
- Kyle Asta
- Alex Damisch
Ryan Rosenberg
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
How many people on your original list actually are still in Chicago?
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
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- Yuna
- Posts: 973
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
Jakob M. (they/them)
Michigan State '21, Indiana '2?
"No one has ever organized a greater effort to get people interested in pretending to play quiz bowl"
-Ankit Aggarwal
Michigan State '21, Indiana '2?
"No one has ever organized a greater effort to get people interested in pretending to play quiz bowl"
-Ankit Aggarwal
- ryanrosenberg
- Auron
- Posts: 1891
- Joined: Thu May 05, 2011 5:48 pm
- Location: Palo Alto, California
Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
Everyone except Ike and Adam, I believe. But "living in Chicago" does not automatically qualify one for this ranking.
Ryan Rosenberg
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
North Carolina '16
NYU '26 (ideally)
ACF
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- Auron
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Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
I guess it does make sense that the Field Museum is located within the corn part of Illinois.Fuddle Duddle wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:23 pm excuse you both maps of Chicago say I'm from there
https://imgur.com/a/22wNbeV
Harry White
TJHSST '09, Virginia Tech '13
Owner of Tournament Database Search and Quizbowl Schedule Generator
Will run stats for food
TJHSST '09, Virginia Tech '13
Owner of Tournament Database Search and Quizbowl Schedule Generator
Will run stats for food