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 Orange Lutheran's Aaron Zhang for winning the 2021 Jack Howe Memorial Tournament. In finals, Aaron defeated Diamond Bar's Nathan Chu on a 2-1 Decision (Agler*, Curry, Cortez). Congratulations to Perry's Joey Antonelli for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Dulles's Tommy Yu for winning the 2021 Yale Invitational. In finals, Tommy defeated Strake Jesuit's Justin Wen on a 2-1 decision (Scopa*, Robinson, Colicchio). Congratulations to Memorial's Daniel Xu for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Zion Dixon for winning the 2021 Greenhill Fall Classic. In finals, Zion defeated Harker's Deven Shah on a 2-1 decision (Theis*, Ribera, Melin). Congratulations to DTHS's Harun Vemulapalli for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Zion Dixon and Garland's Leah Yeshitila for co-championing the 2021 Grapevine Classic. In semifinals, Zion defeated Dulles's Tommy Yu on a 3-0 (Quisenberry, Maher, Hernandez) and Leah defeated Lexington's Brett Fortier on a 3-0 (Aldridge, Castillo, Self). Additional congratulations to Zion for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to OA Independent's Viren Mehta for winning the 2021 National Speech and Debate Season Opener. In finals, Viren defeated Unionville's Phillis Wan on a 3-0 (Kotapati, Lavender, Reshovsky). Congratulations to Eden Praire's Avik Garg for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Immaculate Heart's Jane Lichtman for winning the 2021 Loyola Invitational. In finals, Jane defeated Diamond Bar's Nathan Chu on a 3-0 (Kuffour, McLoughlin, Gedela). Congratulations to San Mateo's Yesh Rao for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
The 2021 September/October Lincoln Douglas debate topic is, Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.
The 2021 September/October Public Forum debate topic is, Resolved: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization should substantially increase its defense commitments to the Baltic states.