Varun Bhave Wins the 2015 USC Trojan Championships

Los Angeles, CA -- Congratulations to Del Mar's Varun Bhave for winning the 2015 USC David Damus Trojan Championships, held at the University of Southern California! In finals, Varun defeated Harvard-Westlake's Nick Steele on a 2-1 decision (Bistagne, Lucas-Bolin*, Placido). Congratulations to both debaters!USC is a semifinals bid qualifier to the Tournament of Champions. USC ran six preliminary rounds, before breaks to a partial octafinals round. Partial OctafinalsLoyola RAg def Interlake AL (Alisa Liu) 3-0 (Grigsby, Hunt, Alderete)Loyola NR def Miramonte TK (Tom Kadie) 2-1 (Helali*, Damerdji, Walton)Del Mar SS over Del Mar KK (Kevin Krotz)Harvard-Westlake NS advances without debatingDel Mar VB advances without debatingJohn Marshall DD advances without debatingLa Canada AZ advances without debatingHarvard-Westlake CC advances without debating QuarterfinalsHarvard-Westlake NS def Del Mar SS (Sujay Singh) 3-0 (Placido, Bistagne, Torson)La Canada AZ def John Marshall DD (David Dosch) 3-0 (Bistagne, Helali*, Placido)Del Mar VB def Loyola NR (Nicholas Rogers) 3-0 (Hunt, Miyamoto, Walton)Harvard-Westlake CC def Loyola RAg (Reece Aguilar) 2-1 (Conrad, Torson, Walton*) Semifinals (bid)Harvard-Westlake NS def La Canada AZ (Alex Zhao) 2-1 (Helali, Pena, Govari*)Del Mar VB def Harvard-Westlake CC (Cameron Cohen) 2-1 (Torson*, Bistagne, Placido) FinalsDel Mar VB def Harvard-Westlake NS (Nick Steele) 2-1 (Bistagne, Lucas-Bolin*, Placido) ChampionDel Mar VB (Varun Bhave)