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 American Heritage Plantation's Robbie Gillespie for winning the 2019 Sunvitational. In finals, Robbie defeated Lake Highland Prep's Jaya Dayal on a 3-0 decision (Forrest, De La O, Choudhary). Congratulations to West Broward's Ethan Massa for being top speaker.Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Montgomery's Grayson Constantine and Houston Memorial's Andrew Qin for co-championing the 2019 University of Houston Cougar Classic. In semifinals, Grayson defeated Village's Aditya Iyer and Andrew defeated Strake Jesuit's Wyatt Hatfield. Congratulations to Seven Lakes High School's Rohan Rao for being top speaker.Full pairings and results can be found here.
Congratulations to Kamiak's Niko Battle for winning the 2019 Puget Sound High School Invitational. In lieu of finals, Niko was declared the champion by seeding over West Linn's Dennis Tang.Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Anderson's Sesh Joe for winning the 2019 Winston Churchill Classic. In finals, Sesh defeated Lake Travis' Blake Ochoa on a 3-0 decision (Lugo, Paramo, Wolf). Congratulations to UT High School's Ian Boarnet for being top speaker.Full results and pairings can be found here.Photo Credits: Callum Harralson
Congratulations to Cinco Ranch's Anuraag Routray & Aatreya Tewary for winning the 2019 University of Houston Cougar Classic. In finals, Cinco Ranch defeated Dulles' Sofia Chang & Yilin Li on a 3-0 decision (Yousaf, Webb, Fung). Congratulations to Klein's Hanaa Irfan for being top speaker.Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Mission San Jose's Ishan Maunder & Rithvik Koppurapu for winning the 2019 Arizona State HSDHC Invitational. In finals, MSJ defeated Corona Del Sol's Sreya Pattipati & Ryan Jiang on a 3-0 decision (Su, Serr, Moody).The following teams received bids to the 2019 Tournament of Champions:Brophy SKCollege Prep DPCorona Del Sol PJFairmont Prep PAGunn BZLa Salle DHLeland KLMission San Jose MKSt Mary's Hall PHUniversity KDUniversity MKUniversity YKValley International Prep BLWestridge BMHannah Smith of McMinnville is this year's Top Speaker.Full results can be found here. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to McNeil's Abhishek Rao for winning the 2019 Arizona State HDSHC Invitational. In finals, Abhishek defeated BASIS Mesa's Amrita Chakladar on a 3-0 decision (Davis, Brisson, Barney). Congratulations to Durham's Bennett Dombcik for being top speaker.Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to The Quarry Lane School's Sai Karavadi and Lexington's Evan Li for closing out the 2019 Newark Invitational. In semifinals, Sai defeated Cambridge Rindge and Latin's Andrew Garber on a 2-1 decision (Johnwell, Williams, Novack*) and Evan defeated Hunter College's Scott Klein on a 3-0 decision (Quiroz, Wang, Yan).Full results and pairings can be found here