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West Des Moines, IA - Congratulations to Torrey Pine's Varun Bhave for winning the 2nd Annual Valley Round Robin. In finals, Varun defeated Sacred Heart's Adam Tomasi. Varun is coached by Marshall Thompson; Adam is coached by Jacob Nails. Congratulations also to Strake Jesuit's Richard Cook for winning the 4th Annual Valley Sophomore Throw-Down. In finals, Richard defeated Hunter College's Nina Potischman. Richard is coached by Chris Castillo; Nina is coached by Danny Li. Stay tuned for live coverage of the 2014 Valley Varsity Round Robin and Sophomore Throw-Down! This is the 2nd annual installment of the round robin in the Varsity LD division and the 4th annual round robin for the nation's top sophomore LD debaters. The Varsity Round Robin consists of two pods of six debaters and breaks to finals; the Sophomore Throw-Down consists of four pods of six and breaks to semifinals. Varsity Round RobinFinalsTorrey Pines VB (Varun Bhave) def. Sacred Heart AT (Adam Tomasi) Sophomore Throw-DownSemifinalsHunter College NP def. Lake Highland KP (Krupali Patel) 3-0Strake Jesuit RC def. Dowling Catholic JO (Joie Otting) 2-1 FinalsStrake Jesuit RC (Richard Cook) def. Hunter College NP (Nina Potischman) 2-1 Participants
The Second Annual Valley Round Robin
Varun Bhave – Torrey Pines
Sophia Caldera – Walt Whitman
Abbey Chapman – Woodlands
Rahul Gosain – Scarsdale
Anne-Marie Hwang – Hockaday
Nalin Vattigunta – Oxbridge Academy
Jared Paul – Brentwood
Ruchir Rastogi – LAMP
Gina Scorpiniti – Valley
Adam Tomasi – Sacred Heart
Anisha Vora – Annie Wright
Emma Weddle – Des Moines Roosevelt
The Fourth Annual Sophomore Throw-Down
Dotan Appelbaum – St. Louis Park
Melissa Chau – Lake Highland
Richard Cook – Strake Jesuit
TJ Foley – Valley
Trent Gilbert – Valley
Kate Keough – Hockaday
Priya Kukreja – Millard North
Jonas Le Barillec – PV Peninsula
Elizabeth Lively – Needham
Gabriel Manak – Bronx Science
Evan McKinney – Valley
Joie Otting – Dowling
Krupali Patel – Lake Highland
Vandita Pendse – MVLA
Nina Potischman – Hunter College
Xavier Roberts-Gaal – Walt Whitman
Sam Serber – Brentwood
Kirk Wu – San Marino
Karen Xia – MVLA
Jason Yang – Kinkaid
Neeki Zand – Brentwood
Alex Zhao – La Canada
Matt Zinnman – Harrison
Suhas Raja – Whitefish Bay
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