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 Harker's Akshay Manglik for winning the 2021 Harvard Westlake Debates. In finals, Akshay defeated Greenhill's Krutin Devesh on a 2-1 (Lemuel*, Engel, Michael). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Ben Erdmann for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Ben Erdmann for winning the 2021 debateLA Challenge. In finals, Ben defeated Harker's Deven Shah on a 2-1 (London*, Nails, Paramo). Congratulations to Deven for also being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Dulles High School's Abhinav Sinha for winning the 2021 Cougar Classic at the University of Houston. In finals, Abhinav defeated Sidwell's Sean Wallace on a 2-1 (Karavadi*, Khan, Fox). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's David Herrera for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Zion Dixon and Joey Georges for closing out the 2021 Lexington Winter Invitational. In semis, Zion defeated Scarsdale's Zach Siegel on a 3-0 (Chippada, Thode, Mukherjee) and Joey defeated Walt Whitman's Ben Waldman on a 2-1 (Maher*, Beckett, Landau). Congratulations to Harrison's Giovanni Cutri for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Northland Christian's Lilly Broussard for winning the 2021 Cavalier Invitational at Durham Academy. In finals, Lilly defeated Myers Park's Elias Altman on a 2-1 (Callahan*, Dombcik, Berry). Congratulations to Lilly for also being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Basis Peoria's Philimon Yosafat and Live Oak's Ritvik Sriram for closing out the 2021 Arizona State HDSHC Invitational. In semifinals, Ritvik defeated Presentation's Nikita Raman on a 2-1 (Yi*, Mork, Fleming) and Philimon defeated Northland Christian's Lilly Broussard on a 3-0 (Evans, Barquin, Matton). Congratulations to Presentation's Nikita Raman for being top speaker.
Full pairings and results can be found here.
Congratulations to Harrison's Giovanni Cutri for winning the 2021 Newark Invitational. In finals, Giovanni defeated Bronx Science's Dahlia Bekong on a 6-5 (Fakorede*, Kukreja*, Hemnarine*, Mendoza*, White*, Asafu-Adjaye, Ogundare, Randall, Smith, Stafford, Wyche).
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Jarvis Xie and Memorial High School's Sebastian Cho for co-championing the 2021 Winston Churchill Classic. In semifinals, Jarvis defeated Legacy Christian's Breigh Plat on a 3-0 (Le, Le, Kotamraju) and Sebastian defeated Dripping Springs' Jackson Kaiser on a 3-0 (Bukowsky, Siddiqi, Wolf). Congratulations to Jarvis for also being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.