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Debate Squals Results

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Some stellar results from the weekend! We had a bunch of teams attend state quals debate and some even getting into the CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONS!!

LD:

Lexi Xu - 10th Alternate

Shraya Pal - 8th Alternate

Raymond Dai - 5th Alternate

Alper Altinel - Qualled to state!!!

Ashley Lee - Qualled to state!!!

Sucheer Maddury - Qualled to state!!!

PF:

Aniket Mittal & Rayan Sengupta - 1st Alternate

Leon Huang & Daniel Xie - Qualled to state!!

Policy:

Medha Nemani & Yongjin Lee - 2nd Alternate

Nicole Mui & Aralyn Connolly - Qualled to state!!

Conner Shih & Iris Zhou - Qualled to state!!

Claire Tsai & Natalie Gao - Qualled to state!!

Huge congrats to everyone who competed this weekend! Make sure to get some rest and stay tuned for next week for Congress and Speech!

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Harvard and Berkeley Results

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Brilliant news as we enter into the break! Here are the results from Berkeley and Harvard:

Berkeley:

Congress:

Samuel Zhu - 9th

HI:

Vidyut Hegde - Semifinals

POI:

Nikita Parakala - Semifinals

Manasi Moghe - 4th

OO:

Claire Chen - Quarterfinals

Tanaisha Mistry - Octofinals

Info:

Aaron Shih - Quarterfinals

Aamit Kancherlapalli - Quarterfinals

Andrea Kuo - Quarterfinals

Alexander Lee - Quarterfinals

Impromptu:

Varsha Shankar - Octofinals

Varsity Policy:

Iris Zhou & Yongjin Lee - Double Octofinals

Conner Shih & Natalie Gao - Double Octofinals

Harvard:

Info:

Hrishi Koushik - Semifinals

Karis Moon - Octofinals

Congratulations to everyone who competed this weekend!!!

Palm Classic and Claremont Results

Hi y'all!

We had two tournaments this weekend with some fabulous results

Palm Classic:

Varsity Info:

Jessica Liu - 6th

Amy Wang - 5th

Novice HI:

Saanvi Deb - 2nd

JV Impromptu:

Khedaar Kashyap - Semifinals

JV NX:

Khedaar Kashyap - 6th

Varsity POI:

Manasi Moghe - Tournament Champion!!

Varsity OO:

Manasi Moghe - Semis

TOC Policy:

Conner Shih & Natalie Gao - Tournament Champions!

CA LD:

Varsha Shankar - Octofinals

Claremont/Wolfpack:

DUO:

Eunwoo Kim & Rachel Cho - 3rd

HI:

Caleb Chao - 6th

Info:

Amber Haiwen - Tournament Champion!!!

Jessica Yao - Semifinals

Sandhya Ram - Semifinals

OO:

Natalie Zhou - Semifinals

OI:

Medha Nemani - 5th

Nikita Parakala - Semifinals

POI:

Nikita Parakala - Tournament Champion!!!!

Open LD

Alper Altinel, Eshan Velidandla, Raymond Dai - Three Way Tournament Champions!

Congrats everyone who competed this weekend!! Make sure to get some well deserved rest just in time for Berkeley next week

Baja Blast Fundraiser!

hi team! our BAJA BLAST ( + pink lemonade + mango fiesta) FUNDRAISER is THIS THURSDAY, 2/17! make sure to stop by the bank after fifth to get a drink for $3, and/or a sticker for $2 . remember — if you’re in seventh, go directly to class! drinks will be brought over to the cafeteria so you don’t miss general.

and here’s the skit (https://youtu.be/Cx0O9GFgUKc) to refresh your memory of your love for the three drinks we’re selling.

let’s have a blast with baja blasts! see you all there

Congress 3 Results

Hi everyone,

Finally, it has arrived: the last league tournament of the 21-22 season. And we have some amazing results to share with y'all:

Chamber 2:

3rd: Daniel Xie

1st (and earning a wildcard!!!) + Best PO: Samuel Zhu

Chamber 4:

2nd: Jonah Oshana

Chamber 5:

2nd: Kiana Shah

Chamber 7:

3rd + Best POI: Michael Que

1st (and earning a wildcard!!!): Iris Zhou

Chamber 8:

3rd: Ashley Lee

1st (and earning a wildcard!!!) + Best PO: Raymond Dai

Senate:

1st (and earning a wildcard!!!): Jasper Wu

Best PO: Arjun Bombwal

Congratulations to everyone who competed today, and thanks to leadership and Jurrien for helping with prep and practice! We are super proud

A Message From Mrs Brasher

A message from Mrs. Brasher about today:

What a difference there was between today’s debrief and the debrief after Super Debate 1. Unfortunately that first debrief seemed to be more about complaints. This debrief showed a huge amount of growth and maturity; it was heart-warming and positive. You all brought up so many ideas for ways to improve your performances: signposting, passionate delivery, explaining issues completely to the judge, realizing the problems of the curse of knowledge, concentrating on main arguments rather than trying to go over every point in the debate, pointing out the importance in PF of the final focus, the need to point out things that are obvious to you but may not be obvious to the judge, working closely with your partner. You had so many wonderful positive steps to take to be a better debater. Thank you for two wonderful class periods today.

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Speech 3 Results

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Today was Speech 3, a tournament of huge proportion and for some of us, our last league tournament of our high school career before the qualifying competitions. The following competitors placed and earned a wildcard, the golden ticket to state quals in March!

DUO:

Eunwoo Kim & Rachel Cho - 2nd

POI:

Nikita Parakala - 7th

Eleanor Yu - 6th

Nethra Srinivasan - 5th

Manasi Moghe - 4th

Parsa Ansari - Tournament Champion!!!

OPP:

Gieve Kashani Gregg - 7th

Parsa Ansari - 6th

OI:

Hailey Pham - Tournament Champion!!!

OA:

Tanaya Mahindrakar - 2nd

Ruby Grimes - Tournament Champion!!!

Info:

Hrishi Koushik - 7th

Amber Haiwen - 6th

Alexander Lee - 2nd

Michelle Qiao - Tournament Champion!!!

NX:

Kenji Guo - 6th

Impromptu:

Maxwell Wu - 7th

Congratulations to everyone who competed this weekend, and hope that you had fun and learned something! Most of all, thanks to all of the amazing coaches and leadership that helped prepare us for this massive tournament. See y'all tomorrow for debrief!

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Superdebate 3 Results

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We've come to it: the third and last Super Debate tournament of the year. And we have some great results! The below competitors/teams went undefeated today, earning a guaranteed spot at the state qualifying tournament later in March

Open LD:

Raymond Dai

Lexi Xu

JV Parli:

Emily Liu & Janele Ting

Anushka Chouksay and Anagha Koganty

JV Policy:

Ben Han & Suhan Lai

Ameya Kiwalkar & Steven Rapp

Open Policy:

Conner Shih & Iris Zhou

Open PF:

Lexie Minvielle & Allison Trinh

Congratulations to everyone who competed today, and thanks to all of the coaches, alumni, and leadership that helped with all of the prep and practice. Now let's crush it at Speech 3 tomorrow!

A quick note from Mr Wardner

So my MS kids did some record and submit tournaments this weekend....and one them was "in Oklahoma". His OO talks about beef being generally bad for us and for the environment. One of his ballots said "stay away from controversial topics like removing God's creation of cattle from our land because of the nonsense they are harmful to the ozone." React as you see fit.....I laughed out loud a lot!!!

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MLK and Cavalier Results

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We have some AMAZING results from two invitationals this weekend (yep, that's right, some Congress members decided to wake up extra early for an east coast tournament)!

At MLK Logan:

HI:

Nadia Karpenko - Quarters

POI:

Claire Chen - Sems

Manasi Moghe - Quarters

OPP:

Parsa Ansari - 2nd

Brandon Vu - Sems

OI:

Hiral Patel - 7th

Pallavi Joshi - Sems

Yasmin Sharbiani - Sems

Hana Djebroun - Quarters

Anusha Mitra - Quarters

Shivali Upadhyay - Quarters

OO:

Claire Chen - Quarters

Manasi Moghe - Quarters

INFO:

Amber Haiwen - 2nd

Michelle Qiao - Quarters

Aaron Shih - Quarters

Oliver Wang - Quarters

Jessica Yao - Quarters

LD:

Ilinca Flacau - Quarters (also went UNDEFEATED in prelims!)

Eshan Velidandla - Quarters

Ashley Lee - Quarters

Raymond Dai - Doubles (was unfortunately walked over because of a Leland/Leland matchup)

Sucheer Maddury - Doubles

Alper Altinel - Triples

Karis Moon - Triples

Lexi Xu - Triples

Policy:

Nicole Mui & Aralyn Connolly - Sems

Claire Tsai & Anahita Kashani Gregg - Quarters (was unfortunately walked over because of a Leland - Leland matchup)

Conner Shih & Iris Zhou - Octos

Nicole Mui was also 5th speaker!

PF:

Daniel Xie & Leon Huang - Triples

We also got 3rd place in sweepstakes!!!

At Cavalier:

Congress:

Samuel Zhu - Sems

Jasper Wu - Sems

Congratulations to everyone who competed! We are super proud of y'all. Super Debate 3 and Speech 3, we're coming for you :DDD

Congress 2 Results

Starting off this busy weekend with some AWESOME results from Congress 2!!! Y'all are AMAZING :OOO

Chamber 1:

3rd + Best PO: Samar Karandikar

Chamber 2:

2nd: Jonah Oshana

Chamber 3:

1st (and wildcarding!!!): Arjun Bombwal

Chamber 4:

Best PO: Varun Natarajan

Chamber 5:

2nd: Iris Zhou

Chamber 7:

2nd + Best PO: Samuel Zhu

Congratulations to everyone who attended tonight, y'all are all legends And stay posted for some more results coming in tomorrow and the day after

NSDA Springboard December Capstone

There was also another tournament that took place today: NSDA Springboard December Capstone! This is a practice tournament, meaning that there were no elimination rounds or a formal awards ceremony, but we've got some competitors who did very well in their rounds!

DI:

Nathaniel Pokras - 4th

Info/Expos:

Andrea Kuo - Tournament Champion !!!

Alexander Lee - 2nd

Karis Moon - 3rd

Nadia Karpenko - 4th

Policy:

Calista and Conner Shih - Undefeated !!!

Congress:

Karina Haddad - 5th

Great job, y'all!!! So proud :OOO

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Novice Debate Results

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It's our second day of this stacked weekend, and we have great results from the Novice Debate tournament! The following teams went undefeated :000

Parli:

William Chan and Sharvil Telikepalli !!!

Policy:

Ben Han and Suhan Lai !!!

Congratulations to all of the novice debaters who are attending! We hope you all had fun competing, and learned something new today Tune in tomorrow for results from Speech 2

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Speech 2 Results

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We've finally arrived at the end of three busy days of competition with CFL Speech 2 Put your hands together for some amazing results, yall!

DI:

Riddhi Kulkarni - 5th

POI:

Claire Chen - 2nd

Manasi Moghe - 3rd

Amber Lu - 7th

OPP:

Parsa Ansari - Co-Tournament Champion!!!

Molly Daley - 7th

OI:

Hailey Pham - Tournament Champion !!!

Grace Zhang - 3rd

Mykayla Liu - 4th

OO:

Suhani Mehta - 3rd

Pallavi Joshi - 7th

Info/Expos:

Andrea Kuo - Tournament Champion !!!

Michelle Qiao - 6th

Aaron Shih - 7th

Congratulations to everyone who competed today! We are so amazed by all of the hard work from competitors and coaches that went into this tournament, and we hope that y'all had a ton of fun See y'all tomorrow for debrief!

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SVUDL Results

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This weekend has been a busy one, because it was SVUDL 1!!! Buckle up and tighten your seatbelts, because we've got some VERY spicy Speech & Congress results :OOO

DI Open:

Hana Djebroun - 6th

HI Novice:

Molly Daley - 2nd

DUO Open:

Rachel Cho & Eunwoo Kim - 4th

DUO Novice:

Gaurav Rao & Suhan Lai - 2nd

POI (Open & Novice was combined):

Manasi Moghe - Tournament Champion!!!

Maggie Liu - 2nd

Michelle Qiao - 3rd

Claire Chen - 4th

Amber Lu - 5th

OPP (Open & Novice was combined):

Parsa Ansari - Tournament Champion!!!

Suhani Mehta - 4th

Brandon Vu - 6th

OI Open:

Amber Haiwen - Tournament Champion!!!

Maya Chivakula - 2nd

Pallavi Joshi - 3rd

Kaviya Veerasingam - 6th

Nikita Parakala - Semis

Yasmin Sharbiani - Semis

Hiral Patel - Semis

OI Novice:

Natalie Zhou - 3rd

OO Open:

Claire Chen - Tournament Champion!!!

OO Novice:

Saanvi Deb - Semis

Info Open:

Amber Haiwen - Tournament Champion!!!

Jessica Yao - 3rd

Hrishi Koushik - 5th

Info Novice:

Nadia Karpenko - Tournament Champion!!!

Breanna Lu - 4th

Ben Han - 5th

Extemp Novice:

Khedaar Kashyap - 2nd

Impromptu Open:

Maxwell Wu - 7th

Aralyn Connolly - Semis

Oliver Wang - Semis

Impromptu Novice:

Calista Shih - Semis

Congress Open:

Jasper Wu - 2nd

Congress Novice:

Sarah Wong - 2nd

Congratulations to everyone who competed this weekend! We hope that all of y'all are super proud of yourselves and feel accomplished regardless of the numbers. A special thanks to Samuel Zhu and Ilinca Flacau for waking up early this weekend and helping us check people in. Keep posted though, we will return later tonight with a full list of debate results >:D

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Super Debate 2 Results!

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Today was Super Debate 2, and we have some amazing results to close off this busy weekend The following competitors went undefeated in all of their rounds :000 For the open divisions, this means they have a wildcard and a reserved spot in the State Qualifying Tournament!

Open LD

Shraya Pal

Karina Haddad

Ashley Lee

Open PF

Allison Trinh & Lexie Minvielle

and also congrats to the following JV team for going undefeated!

JV PF

Allen Liu & Christian Hemprich

Congratulations to everyone who competed today, and all of the debaters and coaches that helped them prepare Can't wait to hear what y'all have to share tomorrow in class, but for now, have a relaxing rest of your night.