Not to be outdone by Mia, it was also Luke Stuttgen's birthday, Thursday. Happy birthday, Luke! What better way to spend your birthday than teaching debate!
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Congratulations to St. Louis Park's Leah Shapiro for championing the 2013 West Des Moines Valley Mid-America Cup over Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue. The decision was a 2-1 for Leah (Legried, Hymson, *Melin). Leah is coached by Christian Tarsney and Charles McClung, and Andrew is coached by Aracelis Biel and Mark Gorthey.
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Congratulations to Apple Valley sophomores Prince Hyamang and Sophie Ober for closing out Minnesota's JV State Tournament. Prince and Sophie are coached by Chris Theis, Ed Hendrickson, Josh You and David Quinn.
In the Novice division Kiley Eichelberger a junior from Chanhassen defeated Edina Freshman Annie Amen in the final round to win the Novice State title. Congratulations to both debaters. Kiley is coached by Zach Prax
Congratulations to Cypress Woods' Xixiang "Shawn" Xiong for winning the 35th Isidore Newman Invitational! In finals, Shawn defeated Greenhill's Mitali Mathur on a 2-1 decision. Shawn is coached by Heath Martin and Jared Woods. Mitali is coached by Aaron Timmons and Rebecca Kuang. Isidore Newman is a semis bid to the Tournament of Champions.
Congratulations to Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue for defeating Scarsdale's Noah Thaler to win the 2014 Columbia Invitational!
More and more, there appears to be disconnects between judges and debaters on the virtues of using theory as a strategy practice. Theory debate has steadily garnered the reputation as a frivolous, unpleasant practice, labeled as a tool employed to garner “cheap wins,” a “crutch” for those who lack substantive debate skills, and even a mechanism to exclude underprivileged debaters from the activity.
However, I find that a lot of these issues are not inherent either to theory debate or strategic theory debate, but the way debaters run these arguments. While it may occur much less frequently nowadays, excellent theory debate does exist. The goal of this article is to establish guidelines to help debaters improve on theory debate, should they choose to engage in it.
Congratulations to Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue for defeating Scarsdale's Noah Thaler to win the 2014 Columbia Invitational!
More and more, there appears to be disconnects between judges and debaters on the virtues of using theory as a strategy practice. Theory debate has steadily garnered the reputation as a frivolous, unpleasant practice, labeled as a tool employed to garner “cheap wins,” a “crutch” for those who lack substantive debate skills, and even a mechanism to exclude underprivileged debaters from the activity.
However, I find that a lot of these issues are not inherent either to theory debate or strategic theory debate, but the way debaters run these arguments. While it may occur much less frequently nowadays, excellent theory debate does exist. The goal of this article is to establish guidelines to help debaters improve on theory debate, should they choose to engage in it.
Congratulations to the Nueva School's Ben Shahar and Ben Cheng for winning the 2019 Cal Invitational at UC Berkeley. In finals, Nueva defeated Fairmont Prep Academy's Matthew Ong & Numair Razzak on a 3-0 decision (Kadie, Overing, Eusterman). This is Nueva's third time winning the final round in four years.The following teams received bids to the 2019 Tournament of Champions:Archbishop Mitty KVBASIS Silicon Valley ISCampbell Hall LDCollege Prep BWCollege Prep DPCypress Woods MBDougherty Valley SBDougherty Valley KJFairmont Prep ORFairmont Prep SSGunn KBLa Salle DHMission San Jose GZMission San Jose MKMission San Jose PHNueva CSMatthew Ong & Numair Razzak from Fairmont Prep are this year's Top Speakers.Full results can be found here. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to Daniel Fernandez & Noah Kaye of Poly Prep Country Day for winning the 2019 Harvard Invitational. In finals, Poly Prep defeated Bronx HS of Science's Benjamin Oestericher & Elias Silver on a unanimous decision (Dhar, McCord, McCrary, Moolji, Spector, Villaseñor, Zhu). Poly Prep last won the Harvard Invitational in 2016.The following teams received bids to the 2019 Tournament of Champions:Acton Boxborough LRBronx Science OSCorona Del Sol PJDelbarton LTHorace Mann SGHorace Mann MMHunter KLLake Highland Prep OKLake Mary Prep HMMillburn AZNewton South GSNewton South LWPlano West LWPoly Prep Country Day FKTheodore Roosevelt ACWalt Whitman FHEmma Smith from Nova is this year's Top Speaker.Full results can be found here. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to David Parau & Shaurya Khanna from BASIS Peoria for winning the 2019 Milo Cup hosted by Millard North. In finals, BASIS defeated Joe Owens & Matthew Goodbred from Ravenwood on a 4-1 decision (Beresh, Gutierrez, Kerkhove, Wilson, Jolley*).The following teams received bids to the 2019 Tournament of Champions:BASIS Peoria PKBelvidere North GCBrentwood AKDuchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart DLMillard West BSRavenwood BJRavenwood OGWestwood SLKenny Zhu from Millard North RZ is this year's Top Speaker.Full results can be found here. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to Millard North's Ben Lampman for winning the 2019 Milo Cup at Millard North. In finals, Ben defeated Apple Valley's Tai Henrichs on a 3-2 decision (Thornhill, Robertson, Punt, Henninger, Dike).Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to West Broward’s Ethan Massa for winning the 2019 Harvard Round Robin. In finals, Ethan defeated St. Andrew Episcopal’s Ishan Bhatt on a 3-0 decision (Caldera, Ryan, O’Connor).Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Harvard-Westlake's Alexandra Mork and Oak Hall's Kumail Zaidi for co-championing the 2019 California Round Robin. Congratulations to Harvard-Westlake's Jaya Nayar for being top speaker.Full results and pairings can be found here.
This weekend ahead of their respective tournaments, Harvard and Berkeley are hosting round robin competitions.Congratulations to Poly Prep Country Day's Daniel Fernandez & Noah Kaye for defeating Newton South's Anika Sridhar & Jay Garg in the Final Round of the 2019 Harvard Round Robin. The round came down to a 4-3 decision (Zhu, Spector, McCord, Jilani, Dhar, Caldera, Bharatha Chakavarthy).Congratulations to Nueva School's Ben Cheng & Ben Shahar and Archbishop Mitty's Roshni Varma & Darya Kaviani for advancing to the Final Round of the 2019 California Round Robin. The panel is Professors Colin Kahl, Mietek Boduszynski, and Stephen Zunes. The final exhibition round will be this evening at College Prep School.
Congratulations to Harvard-Westlake's Jaya Nayar, Ari Davidson, Vishan Chaudhary, and Spencer Paul for closing out the 33rd Annual Stanford Invitational in the semifinals. Congratulations to Jaya for also being top speaker.Full results and pairings can be found here.