20for20
The 2018 High School National Championship Tournament will be the 20th iteration of the HSNCT. To celebrate, each Thursday in the 20 weeks leading up to the tournament, we published one of 20 interviews with NAQT members and founders, tournament staff, players, and other people in the quiz bowl community:
- Patrick Matthews, a founding member and the first president of NAQT
- Jim Puls, statistician
- Rob Kremer, coach of Danville High School, Kentucky
- Eliza Grames, control room operator
- Andy Wehrman, All-Star at the first HSNCT in 1999 as a player for North Kansas City High School (Missouri)
- Andrew Sinclair, coach of the American International School of Guangzhou, China
- Jacob Mikanowski, leading scorer at the second HSNCT in 2000 as a player for State College Area High School (Pennsylvania)
- Jonah Greenthal, head editor of the 2018 HSNCT question set
- Eric Xu, HSNCT liveblogger and All-Star at the 2013 through 2015 HSNCTs
- Nathan Murphy, Logistics Director for the 2013 through 2018 HSNCTs
- Sam Blizzard, All-Star at the 2011 through 2015 HSNCTs and leading scorer in 2013, 2014, and 2015
- Emily Pike, NAQT Vice President of Operations
- Jakob Myers, leading scorer at the 2017 HSNCT
- David Reinstein, power-matching innovator
- Joel Gluskin, NAQT Vice President of Logistics
- Dwight Kidder, inventor of NAQT podcasts and consolation matches
- Erik Nelson, question-writer, ACRONYM manager, and founder of the Bounceback Foundation
- Gail Sutton, head buzzer wrangler at countless national championships
- Chad and Shelly Kubicek, NAQT Chief Financial Officer and Information Desk lead, respectively
- R. Robert Hentzel, NAQT President