Leland High School Speech and Debate

Here's a list of the days the speech room is open during the summer in case some of you have forgotten:

Tuesday June 30th from 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM.
Wednesday July 8th from 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM.
Wednesday July 29th from 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM.
August 3rd to August 7th from 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM.
Sunday Aug 9th from 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM.
August 10th to August 15th from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

For AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS:

July 27th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
July 28th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
July 29th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
July 30th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

Have a great summer everyone!

This week, the Leland Speech and Debate team chose their next year's student officers! The following people have been elected:

President
Rachel Deghuee

Vice Presidents
Speech
Ankur Bhagat
Vishaal Dokras
Vandana Pai
Annabel Liu
Raymond Liu
Sam Pandey

Debate
PoFo: Ashwath Chennapan
LD: Kriti Sondhi
Policy: Brian Yeh
Parli: Undecided

Secretary
Aryana Asefirad

Treasurer
Marissa Chou

Congratulations everyone!

The alumni of Leland's Speech and Debate program have come together and released the first alumni newsletter. This newsletter can be found here. As this is the first one, they are open to all feedback.

Steering Committee:

Suanne Chen (2001) - suanne@gmail.com

Kevin Hsieh (2000) - kthsieh@gmail.com

Edwin Lin (2002) - edklin@gmail.com

James Liu (2000) - james.c.liu@gmail.com

Class Representatives:

2000 - Alison Chen Higuera - alisonch@gmail.com

2001 - Alex Chang - alexcchang@gmail.com

2002 - Edwin Lin - edklin@gmail.com

2003 - Natasha Tavakoli - natashatavakoli@gmail.com

2004 - Anthony Wee - anthonyxwee@gmail.com

2005 - Yue Tu - rollonyuebears@gmail.com

2006 - Ankur Mandhania - bittumandhania@gmail.com

2008 - Deanne Chen - deannech@gmail.com, Karen Leung - peach.from.ebay@gmail.com

Leland High School did extremely well at the National Qualifying tournament. We are sending over 10 people to nationals this year! Congratulations.

Everybody remember that the second State Qualifying Tournament is this weekend at Leland! Thank you to everyone who signed up to help organize and run the tournament. Go out there and do your best! Each and every speech student is rooting for you!

Congratulations everybody who went to the State Quals Tournament this weekend at Bellarmine. We got a total of 24 people qualified to the California State Speech Tournament and 1 alternate. These results can be viewed here.

The results of our debate teams will be up soon.

Just a reminder to everyone going to State Quals 1 that it is at Bellarmine, NOT Westmont. I'm sure Mrs. Brasher has stated this several times and now that it is up here on the Leland SD site, there will be no excuses.

Good luck to everybody!

This is the reminder to all students about rules and other misc. items of importance. If you would like to print a copy of these out, then click here. If you'd like information about the Berkeley schedule, then click here.

Dear Student,

This letter has specific information about the Berkley Tournament.

1. Be sure to pack rain gear. Expos-ers, protect your visuals from the rain.

2. We are staying at the Hotel Durant-2600 Durant Avenue, 94720. The phone number is (510) 845-8981.

3. Debaters-Rooms have been reserved for you on Friday night. Please do not arrive at the hotel before 8 pm.

4. IE-ers and Congress participants, leave your luggage at the hotel when you arrive. (Maybe your rooms will be ready then??) Meet Mrs. Brasher in the lobby of the Dwinelle Hall at 1:15 pm Saturday.

5. Be alert when walking to and from the campus. Walk in groups!! After your rounds, walk with other competitors!! After dark, you cannot go to eat on your own!! You must go with a chaperone. No student may be alone in a hotel room with a student of the opposite sex. No Leland student may be in a hotel room with a student from another school. You must check with Mrs. Brasher, Mr. Edwards, or Chris first for exceptions to this rule for practice and work.

6. Students may not drive other students to and from Berkeley!! The Durant charges an additional $20 fee per night to park a car. That is not covered in your hotel fee. If you park a car at the hotel, the fee will be billed to you.

7. Do not leave the tournament on Sunday evening or Monday until you have checked out with Mrs. Brasher or another chaperone. All students must follow the Leland and San Jose Unified School District’s standards for behavior.

8. Practice! Practice! Practice!

- Gay Brasher

This is the schedule for the Berkeley Invitational Tournament 2009. Feel free to use this as an online resource. If you'd like to get a print out then please, click here.

Schedule for Public Forum and Lincoln Douglas and Individual Events
SATURDAY, 14 FEBRUARY (Lincoln Douglas and Individual Events - At Cal Campus)
Pairings for Debate Rounds 1 & 2 are available at 7:00 AM, ballots will be distributed at 7:30 AM, and Round 1 will begin promptly at 8:00 AM. The 15-minute forfeit rule will be strictly enforced in Round 1!
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM DEBATE 1 (Pre-Set)
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM DEBATE 2 (Pre-Set)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM DEBATE 3 (Pre-Set)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EVENTS/CONGRESS 1
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM DEBATE 4 (High-Low)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EVENTS/CONGRESS 2
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM DEBATE 5 (High-High)

SUNDAY, 15 FEBRUARY (Varsity Policy Lincoln Douglas and Individual Events - at Cal Campus)
Pairings for Debate Round 6 are available at 7:00 AM, ballots will be distributed at 7:30 AM, and Round 6 will begin promptly at 8:00 AM. The 15-minute forfeit rule will be strictly enforced in Round 6!

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM DEBATE 6 (High-Low)
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EVENTS/CONGRESS 3
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM DEBATE 7 (High-Low)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EVENTS/CONGRESS 4
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM DEBATE 8 (High-Low)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EVENTS QUARTERFINALS/CONGRESS SEMI=FINALS
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM DEBATE PARTIAL TRIPLE-OCTA FINALS

MONDAY, 16 FEBRUARY (All Events at Cal Campus)
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM EVENTS SEMI-FINALS/ DEBATE DOUBLE OCTA-FINALS/CONGRESS FINALS
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM DEBATE OCTAFINALS
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EVENTS FINALS/ DEBATE QUARTERFINALS
2:00 PM -4:00 PM DEBATE SEMI-FINALS
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM DEBATE FINALS (Runs through awards)
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM AWARDS (NO BALLOTS/AWARDS BEFOREHAND!)

POLICY DEBATE SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, 14 FEBRUARY (At Berkeley High School)

- We have added the tournament results of Novice, League I, and League II Speech Tournaments to the Leland site. The Stanford Tournament results will be added when they all come in.

- A lot of more information/articles on Speech, Debate, Judging, etc, will be up soon.

- Please remember that State Script Forms ARE DUE in two days (Wednesday, February 11th, 2009). Please get forms from H-7A or you may print out a copy right now by scrolling down and downloading your event's Coversheet's/Checklists.