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 Harker School's Akshay Manglik, Andy Lee, and Deven Shah for closing out the 2021 National Debate Coaches Association National Championship. In semifinals, Akshay defeated Sage Hill's Max Perin on a 2-1 (Flores*, Ribera, Davidson). Congratulations to Harvard-Westlake's Andrew Gong for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
The 2021 NCFL Nationals Lincoln-Douglas topic is Resolved: The U.S. presidency ought to be decided by a national popular vote instead of the electoral college.
Congratulations to Harvard-Westlake's Samantha McLoughlin for winning the 2021 King Round Robin. In finals, Sam defeated Dulles' Abhinav Sinha on a 3-0 decision (McConway, Nails, Stuckert). Congratulations to Sam for also being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to the following students for receiving at-large bids to the 2021 TOC in LD!
- Ayala Adam Mimou
- Bronx Science Dahlia Bekong
- Cardinal Gibbons Roberto Sosa
- Claudia Taylor Johnson Abhived Pulapaka
- Dougherty Valley Arjun Garg
- Immaculate Heart Beatrice Culligan
- Immaculate Heart Felicity Park
- L C Anderson Aseel Rawashdeh
- Lexington Jeong-Wan Choi
- Pembroke Pines Charter Jayvyn Dacas
- Plano West Dylan Jones
- Sequoia Alyssa Sawyer
- Success Academy Silma Bathily
The next five debaters on the waitlist are:
- Greenwich CE Chase Earland
- Lake Highland Prep Abby Morris
- Saratoga AG Arnav Garg
- American Heritage Broward Prateek Gupta
- Lake Highland Prep Arjun Verma
Congratulations to Harker's Deven Shah for winning the 2021 Heart of Texas Tournament. In finals, Deven defeated Strake Jesuit's Ben Erdmann on a 3-0 (Park, Nails, Davidson). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Zion Dixon for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
The 2021 April Public Forum topic is, Resolved: The benefits of the International Monetary Fund outweigh the harms.
Congratulations to Harker's Anshul Reddy for winning the 2021 Cal Invitational. In finals, Anshul defeated Loyola's Ben Cortez on a 3-0 (Wimsatt, Bellavita, Jackson). Congratulations to NSU's Sebastian Frazier for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Harrison's Ali Ahmad for winning the 2021 Harvard National Forensics Tournament. In finals, Ali defeated Strake Jesuit's Ben Erdmann on a 3-2 (Bhatt*, Ahuja*, Fees, Caldera, Kivimaki). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Zion Dixon for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.