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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The 2021 March/April Lincoln-Douglas debate topic is, Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee universal child care.
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Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Ben Erdmann for winning the 2021 Peninsula Invitational. In finals, Ben defeated Sequoia High School’s Alyssa Sawyer on a 3-0 (Park, Ratnasabapathy, Nails). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Joey Georges for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Harker’s Akshay Manglik for winning the 2021 Harvard Westlake Debates. In finals, Akshay defeated Greenhill’s Krutin Devesh on a 2-1 (Lemuel*, Engel, Michael). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Ben Erdmann for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Ben Erdmann for winning the 2021 debateLA Challenge. In finals, Ben defeated Harker’s Deven Shah on a 2-1 (London*, Nails, Paramo). Congratulations to Deven for also being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Dulles High School’s Abhinav Sinha for winning the 2021 Cougar Classic at the University of Houston. In finals, Abhinav defeated Sidwell’s Sean Wallace on a 2-1 (Karavadi*, Khan, Fox). Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s David Herrera for being top speaker. Full results and pairings can be found here.
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Congratulations to Strake Jesuit’s Zion Dixon and Joey Georges for closing out the 2021 Lexington Winter Invitational. In semis, Zion defeated Scarsdale’s Zach Siegel on a 3-0 (Chippada, Thode, Mukherjee) and Joey defeated Walt Whitman’s Ben Waldman on a 2-1 (Maher*, Beckett, Landau). Congratulations to Harrison’s Giovanni Cutri for being top speaker. Full results and […]
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