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Welcome to the first newsletter of the year! As we kick off the new year, we're excited to share with you all the latest news and updates from the world of speech and debate. From tournament announcements to tips and tricks for success, this newsletter has something for everyone. So without further ado, let's dive in!


Tournament Results

 

SPRINGBOARD DECEMBER CAPSTONE

Rising Stars LD: Junlan Wang (2nd)

Rising Stars OI: Ananya Rao (7th)

Rising Stars HI: Vihaan Pala (1st)

Rising Stars Mixed Extemp: Henry Yan (1st)

Open IMP: Grace Huang (6th)


LA REINA INVITATIONAL

MS IMP: Vedant Hathalia (1st), Ishani Manral (5th), Sparsha Shashidhar (6th), Adyant Bhavsar (9th), Jayanth Chinna (11th), Aashvi Gupta (14th)

MS HI: Medha Oruganti (2nd), Michael Liu (6th)

MS OO: Shourya Premkumar (4th)

MS Extemp: Vedant Hathalia (1st), Ishani Manral (4th), Adyant Bhavsar (5th)

Novice Info: Shivansh Bansal (5th)

HS Novice Extemp: Anirudh Rao (2nd)

Mixed Interp: Naisha Chaturvedi (2nd)

HS Open IMP: Ayana Rao (7th)

HS Open Extemp: Ayana Rao (1st)

MS LD: Shourya Premkumar (Speaker award #5), Vihan Bhattacharjee (Speaker award #8)

MS PF: Shruthi Nagulapalli & Vedant Hathalia (2nd), Shruthi Nagulapalli (Speaker award #1), Vedant Hathalia (Speaker award #2), Cynthia Wang (Speaker award #5), Ovee Dharwadkar (Speaker award #8), Sophie Tian (Speaker award #9)

HS Open PF: Alexis Leo (Speaker award #6)


CPS LD INVITATIONAL

Online Open LD: Laya Krishnan (Speaker award #3), Naisha Chaturvedi (Speaker award #5), Adyant Bhavsar (Speaker award #9)


WINTER CUP

PF: Sophie Tian (Speaker award #5)


2022 NOF QUARTER #2

MS LD: Atharv Gabada (Seed: 6), Atharv Gabada (Speaker award #2), Fatema Shiyaji (Seed: 2), Fatema Shiyaji (Speaker award #5)

MS PF: Kayden Yan & Jiya Gupta (Seed: 5), Jiya Gupta (Speaker award #2), Kayden Yan (Speaker award #3),
HS PF: Aidan Cao & Lucy Sheng (Seed: 1), Lucy Sheng (Speaker award #1), Aidan Cao (Speaker award #3)

HS IMP: Vivek Rajdev (Gold)

MS Extemp: Vedant Hathalia (Silver)

MS Info: Arya Prakash (Bronze), Vikhyath Malineni (Bronze)

MS IMP: Aidan Cao (Bronze), Arthur Zhang (Bronze)


NORTH AMERICAN DEBATE CIRCUIT TURQUOISE CUP

HS Varsity PF: Alice Luo & Ariana Corbu (Quarters)

MS Novice PF: Raeyaan Muppaneni & Rishon Muppaneni (Semis), Aarushi Agarwal (Speaker award #6), Raeyaan Muppan

Special shout out to Armaan Sharma and Anushree Samsi as well as Alan Tai and Saanvi Goyal for receiving bids to the Tournament of Champions for High School and qualifying to the silver and gold TOC respectively. 

Great job everyone!

Make sure you congratulate when you see them in class! We look forward to seeing more of you compete this month! We have several more opportunities for students new and experienced to begin testing their skills learned in class. Coaches will make recommendations via email each week.

Tournaments and more
 

 

California Invitational Berkeley Debate Tournament (In Person)

Dates: 18-20 Feb 2023

Deadline to Register: 11 Jan 2023 
 

North American Debate Circuit Garnet Cup (Online, PF & LD Only)

Dates: 21-22 Jan 2023

Deadline to Register: 15 Jan 2023

 

Seattle University High School Speech and Debate Tournament (Online)

Dates: 27-28 Jan 2023

Deadline to Register: 20 Jan 2023


More tournaments can be found on our website and our calendar we will email parents once we finalize our guide/point system to help parents make choices for tournaments and to help incentivize student participation. This along with our Scholars and Fellows program are things we will provide details to parents about as soon as finalized. We look forward to share these exciting changes and opportunities with you.

If you have not signed up for the school year programs, we will continue enrollment for our current programming thru 1/15. We will open up enrollment for our late start program for those who missed enrollment earlier as we have many families who have told us they missed registration due to travel and other situations. Stay tuned for further details!

Have questions? Please talk to your child's coaches first for recommendations for tournament participation. Have logistical questions related to judging, tournament expectations, etc? We will be hosting our tournament orientation for students and parents in the next few weeks. We will do our best to offer two but either way we will record the orientation.  

Are you new to our program or interested in joining? Schedule a call with our CEO and Co-founder Victor Rivas for a chance to ask questions.
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