Congratulations to Prospect’s Sophia Tian on winning the 2024 Harvard Tournament. In finals, Sophia defeated Lake Highland Prep’s Harris Layson on a 3-0 decision (Xie, Beckett, Yosafat). Congratulations to Scripps Ranch’s Agastya Sridharan on top speaker. Additionally, we’d like to congratulate our alumni on their success this past weekend. Sophia Tian (Champion), Ella Huang, and Kelvin Meng (Doubles) reached elimination rounds. Full results and pairings can be found here. The post Sophia Tian Wins the 2024 Harvard Tournament appeared first on Blog - The Debate Intensive ..read more

Congratulations to Harvard Westlake’s William Liu on winning the 2024 Berkeley Invitational. In finals, William defeated Harker’s Ansh Sheth on a 2-1 decision (Menotti, Urfalian, Reichel*). Congratulations to Oak Ridge Independent’s Arnav Arjula on top speaker. Additionally, we’d like to congratulate our alumni on their success this past weekend. Anika Ganesh (Semis), Alex Borgas, Aaron Yi, Bolang Zhu (Octos), Ava Wegmann-Gatarz, Shaina Sanchez, Sterling Utovac, Sofia Shah, Tanya Wei (Doubles), Emma Sobel, Mia Fleming, Heather Yang, William Wei, Ethan Yang, Jason Kuo, Nikhil Bawa, Amanda Yu, V ..read more

Congratulations to Peninsula’s Sterling Utovac on winning the 2024 UNLV Invitational. In finals, Sterling defeated Marlborough’s Maya Jen on a 3-0 decision (Clark, Waters, Taylor). Congratulations to Marlborough’s Wyeth Renwick on top speaker. We’d like to congratulate our alumni for their success this past weekend. Sterling Utovac (Champion), Alex Borgas (Quarters), Brian Son, Shawn Lo, Nikihil Bawa (Octos), Aaron Yi, Dalton Ngo, Amanda Yu, and Kensho Nishio (Doubles) reached elimination rounds. Full results and pairings can be found here. The post Peninsula’s Sterling Utovac Wins the 2024 UN ..read more

Congratulations to Lake Highland Prep’s Harris Layson on winning the 2024 Barkley Forum. In finals, Harris defeated Westlake’s Miller Roberts on a 4-1 decision (Sanchez, Shurtz, Smiley, Timmons, Heidt*). Congratulations to Marlborough’s Wyeth Renwick on top speaker. We’d like to congratulate our alumni for their success this past weekend. Bolang Zhu (Octas), Niranjan Deshpande, Aiden Kim, Alex Borgas, Ethan Yang, Sterling Utovac (Doubles), Ava Wegmann-Gatarz, Amanda Yu, Brian Son, Kelvin Meng, Om Modi, and Jason Kuo reached elimination rounds. Full results and pairings can be found here. The p ..read more

Congratulations to OCSA’ Independent’s Iva Liu on winning the 2024 Peninsula Invitational. In finals, Iva defeated American Heritage Broward’s Spencer Swickle on a 3-0 decision (White, Omidvar, Antonelli). Congratulations to Spencer on top speaker. We’d like to congratulate our alumni for their success this past weekend. Iva Liu (Champion), Ethan Yang (Quarters), Amanda Yu, Nicolette Huff, Jason Kuo (Octos), Shaina Sanchez, Luke Rascoff, Lilly Stobo, Andrew Wesel, Niranjan Deshpande, Bolang Zhu, Nikhil Bawa, Aiden Kim, Kaison Maruyama, Ryan Noorizadeh (Doubles), Emma Sobel, Shiwen Huang, and M ..read more

Congratulations to Harker’s Ansh Sheth and Harker’s Sofia Shah on closing out the 2024 Harvard Westlake Debates. In semifinals, Ansh defeated OCSA’s Iva Liu on a 2-1 decision (Dosch, Karavadi, Mimou*), and Sofia defeated Memorial’s David Xu on a 3-0 decision (Myers, Cryan, Dosch). Congratulations to Ansh on top speaker. Additionally, we’d like to congratulate our alumni for their success this past weekend. Sofia Shah (Champion), Iva Liu (Semis), Ava Wegmann-Gartz, Sterling Utovac (Octos), Om Modi, Bolang Zhu, Anika Ganesh, Tanya Wei, Alex Borgas, Nikhil Bawa (Doubles), William Wei, Shawn Lo, S ..read more

Congratulations to Memorial’s David Xu on winning the 2023 University of Houston Cougar Classic. In finals, David defeated Carnegie Vanguard’s Laura Huang on a 3-0 decision (Le, Pittman, Tran). Congratulations to Seven Lakes’ Vishal Surya on top speaker. Additionally, We’d like to congratulate our alumni for their success this past weekend. Ella Huang and Aiden Kim (Semis) reached elimination rounds. Full results and pairings can be found here. The post David Xu and Laura Huang Co-Final The Houston Classic appeared first on Blog - The Debate Intensive ..read more

Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Justin Wen and Lake Highland Prep on being finalists at the 2023 Mid America Cup. In semifinals, Justin defeated American Heritage Broward’s Mason Cheng on a 3-0 decision (Johnston, Evnen, Achten), and Harris defeated American Heritage Broward’s Spencer Swickle on a 3-0 decision (Koslow, Hertzig, Castillo). Congratulations to Spencer on top speaker. Additionally, we’d like to congratulate our alumni for their success this past weekend. Aiden Kim (Octas), Sofia Shah, Nikhil Bawa, and Amanda Yu (Doubles) made it to elimination rounds. Full results and pairings ..read more

Congratulations to Harker’s Ansh Sheth on winning the 2023 Greenhill Invitational. In finals, Ansh defeated Strake Jesuit’s Justin Wen on a 3-0 decision (Ogundare, Myers, Lugo). Congrats to Ansh on top speaker. We’d like to congratulate our alumni for their success this weekend. Aiden Kim (Quarters), Alex Borgas, Sofia Shah (Octos), Ella Huang, Shaina Sanchez, Anika Ganesh, and Kelvin Meng (Doubles) made it to elimination rounds. Full results and pairings can be found here. The post Ansh Sheth Wins The 2023 Greenhill Invitational appeared first on Blog - The Debate Intensive ..read more

Congratulations to Ridge’s Rebecca Davidov on winning the 2023 National Speech And Debate Season Opener. In finals, Rebecca defeated Athenian’s Everett Yau on a 3-0 decision (Kanamangula, Wiessner, Meza). Congratulations to St Agnes’ Ella Huang on top speaker. We’d like to congratulate our alumni for their success this past weekend. Andrew Wesel (Quarters), Tanya Wei, Sachin Aggarwal (Octos), Kaison Maruyama, Ella Huang, Bolang Zhu, Roger Li (Doubles), Luke Rascoff, Nikhil Bawa, Om Modi, and Ryan Noorizadeh (Runoffs) made it to elimination rounds. Full results and pairings can be found here. T ..read more