Congratulations to Harker’s Deven Shah for winning the 2021 Heart of Texas Tournament. In finals, Deven defeated Strake Jesuit’s Ben Erdmann on a 3-0 (Park, Nails, Davidson). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Zion Dixon for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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The 2021 April Public Forum topic is, Resolved: The benefits of the International Monetary Fund outweigh the harms.
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Congratulations to Harker’s Anshul Reddy for winning the 2021 Cal Invitational. In finals, Anshul defeated Loyola’s Ben Cortez on a 3-0 (Wimsatt, Bellavita, Jackson). Congratulations to NSU’s Sebastian Frazier for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Harrison’s Ali Ahmad for winning the 2021 Harvard National Forensics Tournament. In finals, Ali defeated Strake Jesuit’s Ben Erdmann on a 3-2 (Bhatt*, Ahuja*, Fees, Caldera, Kivimaki). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Zion Dixon for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Lexington’s Austin Li for winning the 2021 University of Pennsylvania Tournament. In finals, Austin defeated Harrison’s Rebecca Anderson on a 3-0 (Hu, Leong, Wells). Congratulations to Harrison’s Sonali Nicola for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Harvard Westlake’s Samantha McLoughlin for winning the 2021 Stanford Invitational. In finals, Sam defeated Harrison’s Ali Ahmad on a 2-1 (Mikkelsen*, Nails, Wancewicz). Congratulations to Bellarmine’s Eric Gottlieb for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Harvard Westlake’s Andrew Gong for winning the 2021 Barkley Forum for High Schools. In finals, Andrew defeated Strake Jesuit’s Zion Dixon on a 4-1. Congratulations to Zion for also being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Joey Georges for winning the 2021 Golden Desert Debate Tournament at UNLV. In finals, Joey defeated Harker’s Andy Lee on a 3-0 (Boelkens, Sidley, Reese). Congratulations to Advanced Technologies’s Aleem Ahmed for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Lexington’s Brett Fortier for winning the 2021 Columbia University Invitational. In finals, Brett defeated Harrison’s Mai Blaustein on a 3-0 (Ewing, Joshi, Wang). Congratulations to Dulles’s Connor Self for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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The 2021 March Public Forum topic is, Resolved: On balance, the benefits of creating the United States Space Force outweigh the harms.
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