Harvard-Westlake Closes Out NDCA

Congratulations to Walt Whitman’s Benjamin Waldman and Hunter’s Michael Ning for closing out the 2019 11th University of Pennsylvania Lincoln Douglas Round Robin. Full results and pairings can be found here.

The 2019 National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament Lincoln-Douglas Debate topic is, Resolved: Developed nations have a moral obligation to admit people fleeing oppression. http://www.ncfl.org/NCFLnew/pages/ncfl.html

In an interview with the Associated Press on March 17th 2017, Sebastian Kurz, the Chancellor of Austria, argued that the European Union needs to change course. According to Kurz “the most important is the focus on the big questions and a European Union that steps back on the small questions.” When we here at Victory […]

  The University of Kentucky has released the initial list of at large acceptances to the 2019 TOC. Congratulations to the accepted debaters and their teams!   LD 2019 At Larges Dougherty Valley—Amanda Yang Harker—Akshay Manglik Interlake—Megan Wu KAPS—Ben Thomas Loyola—John Choi Northwood—Karthik Krishnan Pennsbury—Carolyn Zou Pinnacle—Kristen Arnold Scarsdale—Sanjana Bhatnagar Strake Jesuit—Vincent Liu   Gold PF 2019 At […]

The 2019 April Public Forum Debate Topic is Resolved: The United Nations should grant India permanent membership on the Security Council. Topics

Congratulations to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School’s Andrew Garber for winning the 45th Harvard National Forensics Tournament. In finals, Andrew defeated St. Andrew’s Ishan Bhatt on a 2-1 decision (Kukreja*, Ryan, Singh). Congratulations to Valley’s Animesh Joshi for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.

Congratulations to Harvard-Westlake’s Vishan Chaudhary for winning the 2019 Cal Invitational UC Berkeley. In finals, Vishan defeated Immaculate Heart’s Lena Mizrahi on a 3-0 decision (Malyugina, Gray, Fleming). Congratulations to Mountain View’s Varun Paranjpe for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.

Congratulations to the Nueva School’s Ben Shahar and Ben Cheng for winning the 2019 Cal Invitational at UC Berkeley. In finals, Nueva defeated Fairmont Prep Academy’s Matthew Ong & Numair Razzak on a 3-0 decision (Kadie, Overing, Eusterman). This is Nueva’s third time winning the final round in four years. The following teams received bids […]

Congratulations to Daniel Fernandez & Noah Kaye of Poly Prep Country Day for winning the 2019 Harvard Invitational. In finals, Poly Prep defeated Bronx HS of Science’s Benjamin Oestericher & Elias Silver on a unanimous decision (Dhar, McCord, McCrary, Moolji, Spector, Villaseñor, Zhu). Poly Prep last won the Harvard Invitational in 2016. The following teams […]