La Reina Speech and Debate Tournament Online 2021

Kudos wrapped up the year of 2021 with some great results. We sent middle school and high school students to compete in both speech and debate events. All four of our students are worthy of praise not only for their results, but for giving up their time to prepare for this tournament during winter break!

Onto the results: Fiona Zhou won HS congress as a freshman, capping off an incredible first semester in ninth grade. She did this by getting a 1 and a 3 from her two judges in all three rounds throughout the tournament. Despite the mathematical improbability of the feat, she showed her consistency as a talented debater. Shoutouts to freshman Claire Wen for getting top half in her chamber and freshman Alen Zhang for taking top half of the tournament. Alen accomplished this by getting ranked top five by every judge that saw him throughout the tournament.

Additionally, 7th grader Claire Chen cleaned up in the middle school speech side of the tournament. Claire finaled in both middle school impromptu, as well as middle school original oratory. Claire took 5th in OO and earned 6th place out of the 12 students who advanced to the final round in impromptu. The impromptu final was particularly noteworthy because it was one the largest speech events at the tournament. This continues Claire’s streak of finaling every time she enters in Impromptu and or OO. Claire deserves special praise for being 1 spot away from picket fencing (where a student gets a 1st place rank from every judge) in prelims for OO.

Kudos students head to their well deserved winter break. The students will be right back to speaking and debating in 2022. KUDOS!