Lexington, KY -- Congratulations to Harker's Pranav Reddy for winning the 2015 Tournament of Champions! In finals, Pranav defeated University's David Branse on a 2-1 decision (Kaczmarek, Legried, Palmer*). Congratulations to both debaters! Pranav is coached by Greg Achten, Ryan Fink, Jerry Chen, and Jordan Lamothe. David is coached by Zach Prax, Grant Reiter, and Tom Evnen. Stay tuned for live coverage of the 2015 Tournament of Champions, held at the University of Kentucky! There will be 7 preliminary rounds, with 4 rounds on Saturday, and 3 on Sunday. After preliminary rounds, the tournament will break to a runoff before a full octafinals bracket. Pairings and results can be found on Tabroom: https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/index.mhtml?tourn_id=3594 The bracket can be found here: https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/results/bracket.mhtml?tourn_id=3594&result_id=11860 Speaker Awards
| 1 | Christian Quiroz (Newark Science CQ) | Newark Science | |||||
| 2 | Pranav Reddy (Harker PR) | Harker | |||||
| 3 | Varun Bhave (Torrey Pines HS Speech and Debate VB) | Torrey Pines HS Speech and Debate | |||||
| 4 | Jackson Lallas (Brentwood JL) | Brentwood | |||||
| 5 | Akhil Jalan (Peninsula AJ) | Peninsula | |||||
| 6 | Varad Agarwala (Greenhill VA) | Greenhill | |||||
| 7 | Rahul Gosain (Scarsdale RG) | Scarsdale | |||||
| 8 | Adam Tomasi (Sacred Heart AT) | Sacred Heart | |||||
| 9 | David Branse (University DB) | University School (FL) | |||||
| 10 | Arjun Tambe (Peninsula AT) | Peninsula |
RunoffsNewark Science AF def Byram Hills AJCypress Bay JS def Katy Taylor NYScarsdale MB def Oakwood JWClements RG def WDM Valley GSGreenhill GB def Evanston CT OctafinalsPeninsula AJ def Greenhill BE (Bennett Eckert) 2-1Greenhill VA def Peninsula AT (Arjun Tambe) 2-1Sacred Heart AT def Scarsdale MB (Michael Bogaty) 2-1Harker PR def Clements RG (Rebecca Gelfer) 2-1Brentwood JL def Cypress Bay JS (Jake Steirn) 3-0Greenhill GB def Torrey Pines VB (Varun Bhave) 3-0University DB def Scarsdale RG (Rahul Gosain) 3-0Newark Science CQ over Newark Science AF (Adegoke Fakorede) QuarterfinalsHarker PR def Peninsula AJ (Akhil Jalan) 2-1 (Duby, Legried*, Nails)Greenhill GB def Brentwood JL (Jackson Lallas) 2-1 (Achten*, Fink, Wheeler)Newark Science CQ def Greenhill VA (Varad Agarwala) 3-2 (Hampton, Koshak*, Manuel, Sanchez*, Vincent)University DB def Sacred Heart AT (Adam Tomasi) 3-0 (Koh, Shatzkin, Thompson) SemifinalsHarker PR def Newark Science CQ (Christian Quiroz) 2-1 (Theis, Nails, Zhou*)University DB def Greenhill GB (Graham Baker) 3-0 (Legried, Fink, Prasad) FinalsHarker PR def University DB (David Branse) 2-1 (Kaczmarek, Legried, Palmer*) ChampionHarker PR (Pranav Reddy)