Berkeley, CA -- Congratulations to Newark Science's SunHee Simon and Christian Quiroz for closing out the 2015 Cal Invitational at the University of California, Berkeley! In semifinals, SunHee defeated Greenhill's Bennett Eckert; Christian walked over teammate Adegoke Fakorede. Congratulations to all! SunHee, Christian, and Adegoke are coached by Jonathan Alston, Chris Randall, and Tommy Curry. Bennett is coached by Aaron Timmons, Bekah Boyer, Josh Roberts, and Rebecca Kuang.Berkeley is an octafinals bid qualifier to the Tournament of Champions. The tournament will have six preliminary rounds. All speech and debate events will be held on the UC Berkeley campus this year, so each event will only run three rounds per day. Preliminary rounds will run from Saturday to Sunday, with elimination rounds on Monday.Pairings can be found on Tabroom: https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/index.mhtml?tourn_id=3024 Triple OctafinalsNewark Science CQ def Mountain View KXPeninsula AT def Harker RXJohn Marshall DD def Northland Christian DSBrentwood JP def Saratoga SDNewark Science AK def Oakwood NMTorrey Pines KK def San Marino KWBrentwood JL def Lynbrook VVBrentwood JR def Harvard-Westlake CEHarvard-Westlake NS def Timberline JWyGreenhill GB def Loyola ZMCrossroads NS def Harvard-Westlake EEHarker PR def Bellarmine NTPeninsula KK def Kinkaid JYOakwood JW def Kinkaid NKPeninsula AJ def Harker KQDougherty Valley CR def Sprague BRPeninsula JZ def Bainbridge CWGreenhill VA def Boise KDMiramonte TK def Palo Alto ALKaty Taylor NY def Flintridge MCPeninsula IG def Palo Alto AMMiramonte AB def Lake Highland MCBrentwood MR def Evergray KVBrentwood JC def Torrey Pines AINewark Science AF def Northland Christian DLTorrey Pines VB def Peninsula JLPresentation MS def Brentwood CHNewark Science SS def Immaculate Heart LMLynbrook NS def Cypress Bay IPLos Altos JN def Bellarmine OSLynbrook DW def Dougherty Valley SZGreenhill BE def Palo Alto AM Double OctafinalsBrentwood JL vs Newark Science AK (Newkirk, Letak, Silberman)Newark Science SS vs Brentwood MR (Alderete, Hunt, Silberman)Greenhill GB vs Brentwood JC (Coffman, Fink, Gingold)Harker PR vs Presentation MS (Alderete, Legried, Overing)Greenhill VA vs Torrey Pines KK (Letak, Legried, Berger)Oakwood JW vs Brentwood JR (Yanofsky, Damerdji, Lonam)Peninsula AJ vs Crossroads NS (Scher, Knell, Leone)Torrey Pines VB vs Peninsula JZ (Leone, Scher, Knell)Harvard-Westlake NS vs Miramonte AB (Amestoy, Johnson, Hudgens)Newark Science AF vs Miramonte TK (Mathur, Wheeler, Hunt)Greenhill BE vs Katy Taylor NY (Huston, Wheeler, Coffman)Newark Science CQ vs Lynbrook NS (Go, Fife, Erickson)Dougherty Valley CR vs Peninsula KK (Go, Overing, Martel)Brentwood JP vs Lynbrook DW (Amestoy, Horowitz, Chen)John Marshall DD vs Los Altos JN (Fife, Lin, Chen)Peninsula AT over Peninsula IG Octafinals (bid)Newark Science SS def Torrey Pines VB (Varun Bhave) (Boyer, Newkirk, Gingold)Newark Science AF def Greenhill VA (Varad Agarwala) (Rourick, Berger, Lin)Harker PR def Oakwood JW (Jack Wareham) (Ziedrich, Legried, Knell)Peninsula AJ def Brentwood JP (Jared Paul) (Chen, Hsiung, Yanofsky)Brentwood JL def Miramonte AB (Andrew Bower) (Fink, Wheeler, Timmons)Greenhill BE def Brentwood JC (Amestoy, Letak, Sulyma)Newark Science CQ def Dougherty Valley CR (Connor Riano) (Auro, Phung, Thomas)Peninsula AT def John Marshall DD (David Dosch) (Bryan, Scher, Randall) QuarterfinalsNewark Science AF def Brentwood JL (Jackson Lallas) 3-0 (Amestoy, Bietz, Thomas)Newark Science SS def Peninsula AJ (Akhil Jalan) 2-1 (Lin, Boyer, Fink*)Greenhill BE def Peninsula AT (Arjun Tambe) 2-1 (Yanofsky*, Alston, Berger)Newark Science CQ def Harker PR (Pranav Reddy) 2-1 (Timmons, Knell*, Wheeler) SemifinalsNewark Science CQ over Newark Science AF (Adegoke Fakorede)Newark Science SS def Greenhill BE (Bennett Eckert) ChampionsNewark Science CQ (Christian Quiroz) and Newark Science SS (SunHee Simon)