Tournament Information

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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!!!

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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!

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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

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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.

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Some great news from policy!

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We are overjoyed to share that Conner Shih and Natalie Gao have made team history by earning the first Leland Policy bid to the TOC in many years!
It's an incredible achievement of which they should be so proud! Years of their work went into this as the technical skills, research base, and adaptation techniques required for a policy bid are extreme indeed...and are carved out of hard-won experience and extreme dedication over many seasons, as well as the ground work and team support provided in previous years and up to this moment! they had to persist through many challenges and learn to accept tough losses on the way, yet remain motivated to learn before reaching this milestone.
In speech and debate, we have to acknowledge that the work of so many others contributes to our success and if we are open to collaboration and advice, that takes us so much farther...and that a culture of support makes all the difference. we are grateful to all the inspirational policy speakers who have helped pave this path throughout Leland's decades of policy competition and to the entire circuit squad and Policy Leadership Team for expanding participation in this style of technical debate. special thanks to coaches Allen Kim and Hannah Lee and Young Park for their specialty national circuit coaching and constant availability to the team as well as the work of all policy team members in helping Conner & Natalie reach this milestone!

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Novice Speech Results!

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Hope everyone's having a nice Saturday :)) We have some fancy results from Novice Speech today!

DUO:

Tournament Champions!!! - Suhan Lai & Gaurav Rao

HI:

Tournament Champion!!! - Molly Daley

Impromptu:

3rd - Emma Li

6th - Nathaniel Pokras

Info/Expos:

Tournament Champion!!! - Sandhya Ram

5th - Lori Yang

6th - Ben Han

National Extemp:

4th - Michael Sher

OI:

2nd - Kaitlyn Chan

3rd - Amber Lu

4th - Anushka Shukla

5th - Joy Liu

8th - Natalie Zhou

OO:

6th - Maryam Tarevern

OA:

Tournament Champion!!! - Anjani Shah

POI:

Tournament Champion!!! - Eleanor Yu

2nd - Amber Lu

Congrats to everyone who went today! And for the debaters, good luck tomorrow at Super Debate :DD

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Invitational Participation

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I am suspending invitational offerings for the time being. This does not include John Lewis or Gig Harbor (for league 1 make ups).

To date there have been 4 instances of judges being unavailable for their full judging obligation. In all 4 of those instances I was not made aware of the conflict until there were less than 24 hours before round 1. In all 4 of those instances I could have set their schedules in advance to meet their needs. These judge issues make me look unprofessional and unprepared. I know the folks that run these invitationals personally. It embarrasses me when I have to email, or text, or go to a zoom and explain that a judge isn't available for the blocks of time I signed them up to judge. Schedule are published on tabroom....when you ask your parent to judge, you should be showing them the schedule so they can see what they are agreeing to do.

I will let you know when we are returning to Invitational participation.

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League 1 Speech

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Hey everyone! Hope y’all had a nice weekend and we’ve had some amazing results from CFL Speech 1 today!

OPP:

6th - Brandon Vu

INFO:

4th - Oliver Wang

3rd Amy Wang

1st - Amber Haiwen

NX:

7th - Madhav Nair

OI:

6th - Pallavi Joshi

2nd - Hiral Patel

And side note, we had over 20 breaks this tournament! Congrats to everyone who competed today, and make sure to get some well-deserved rest :))

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Super Debate Results!

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We have some awesome Super Debate results! As a refresher, undefeated competitors (people who win all four of their rounds) get a wildcard :0 Here are your League 1 Wildcards, who have a free spot in the State Qualifying tournament for debate

Lincoln Douglas

Ashley Lee

Shraya Pal

Policy

Conner Shih & Iris Zhou

Public Forum

Daniel Xie & Leon Huang

Congrats to everyone who competed today! Make sure to get some rest and enjoy the rest of your break

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Some coaching updates...

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Geneva has IN PERSON coachings for OO/OA/OI and delivery in any event for this Friday!!! Get that good practice and feedback during class by signing up here: https://docs.google.com/.../1VmX67GwgNIXjFJGigwYC.../edit...

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Our wonderful coach Ms. Cook is opening up coachings sessions from October 5th to October 16th for every and any Speech events as well as Congress. If you would like to get clearance for League #1 or would just like to get some very valuable feedback, sign up on her coaching sheet right here: https://docs.google.com/.../1_qsMnmu725zySr2bexl1.../edit....

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And as a reminder, here is a spreadsheet of all past, present, and future coaching sheets! Let's get moving :,D https://docs.google.com/.../1p1S6u6PX7_KomgV5fOz.../edit...

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Stephen Stewart Results!

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Hi everyone,

This past weekend was Stephen Stewart and we had a wonderful turnout!

Lincoln-Douglas

Eshan Velidandla - Tournament Champion!!!

Lexi Xu - Semifinals

Ilinca Flacau - Semifinals

Alper Altinel, Eshan, and Ilinca got 4th, 5th, and 9th speaker respectively!

Parliamentary

Nora Thomas got 9th speaker!

Public Forum

Daniel Xie and Leon Huang - 2nd

Jon Levitsky and Sunny Vinay - Double Octos

Daniel and Leon also got 1st and 3rd speaker respectively!

Informative/Expository

Hrishi Koushik - 4th

Congratulations to everyone who competed this weekend, hope y'all are as excited as we are for Super Debate 1 !!!