South Forsyth Middle team earns 2nd in state academic bowl in Jan 2018. South Forsyth Middle School’s academic bowl team finished second at the Page Academic Bowl Middle Grades State Championship over the weekend. The team consisted of Aadi Arya Karthik, Ruhi Iyer, Sydney Morrissey, Tom Kunampuram, Ashley Calloway, Andy Zhang, Mithun Subhash and Sam Davidson. It came down the wire against The Paideia School.
When others were referring to Aadi Arya Karthik as a top 3 generational player in high school quiz bowl …
The best players since where Matt’s post ends (2016-present) were Arya Karthik, Clark Smith, and Hari Parameswaran.
Arya’s Lambert team won the 2022 NSC with Arya leading the field in prelim PPG and being 2nd overall. More impressively than the ppg imo, they had 90 powers in the 16 non-finals games (and then 11 more against the other two best teams in a string of 3 wins..), while the next closest had 59, so basically 2 powers/game more.
… Aadi Arya was happy to point the spotlight on others.
In my mind, having done what he did as a junior (whereas Clark, Hari, me, etc. made similar runs only as seniors), Rohan is pretty clearly the best high school quizbowl player at high school quizbowl in a very, very long time.
Note the qualification: “best high school quizbowl player” could mean best at the high school game, or most competitive at three- or four-dot difficulties. Both, I think, are reasonable ways of adding specificity to the question – that is, those people who claim that high school quizbowlers should be judged simply by their performance at high school quizbowl are wrong, given the attitudes of most elite high schoolers toward college quizbowl these days, and their frequent participation in even three-dot tournaments (and also the existence of NASAT).
I don’t think it’s proper I share my thoughts here in this regard, but I believe these two criteria would create nontrivially different lists. To reiterate, however, the former list would at this point undoubtedly be crowned by Rohan.
Ambition is an essential force for achieving big things, acting as a catalyst for high productivity, innovation, and resilience. This transforms abstract dreams into actionable, long-term goals, providing the motivation to overcome obstacles and pursue excellence through self motivation.
Aadi Arya Karthik had loads of it and the people around him picked up on it. I can see that in this post by the Lambert team a few months before their national championship win.
“Last year at HSNCT we placed 19th out of the 300 teams that qualified, and at Pace we placed 9th. This year we are trying to win the whole thing.”
Vishal Sareddy, Ritvik Ganta, Aadi Karthik, Adi Krish and Anish Kayarthodi posing for a picture after taking home a trophy in competition last year. Sareddy and Karthik are graduating this year and will be passing team captain on to Krish. (January 29, 2022)The Team celebrated their accomplishments in 2019 competition. They are looking forward to being potential national champions in 2022!
Aadi Arya Karthik 