Kudos News for April 2013豐收的四月 Glendale Tournament and Fullerton Tournament Kudos News for April 2013豐收的四月 Glendale Tournament and Fullerton Tournament

The weekend of April 13th and 14th featured two tournaments:  The Glendale Middle School Invitational and the Brushke (High School) Invitational held at Cal State Fullerton.  The Glendale tournament is designed to be a warm-up for nationals, and draws schools from throughout the state.  Against this high level competition, our Kudos middle schoolers once again brought home plenty of hardware:

Kudos winners celebrate triumph.  From left to right: Benjamin, Victor, Alex, Jax, Kelly, Caty, Melinda, Mei, and Cicily.

Caty, along with her partner Kelly, broke to octafinals in PF, while Melinda did especially well, bringing home the championship in two different events:  HI and OO!

Caty and Melinda

It wasn’t all business though, as Stanley, Benjamin, and Victor share a happy moment before awards:

Left to right: Benjamin, Victor, and Stanley.

Here’s another picture of our happy warriors.

Complete winners list from Glendale:

Melinda Guo HI 1st place
Melinda Guo OO 1st place
Stanley Yu OO 2nd place
Audrey Lam Extemp 2nd place
Brandon Zhang IOO 1st place
Jax Rounds (w/ Alex) Policy 2nd place
Alex Zhao (w/ Jax) Policy 2nd place
Benjamin Yeh (w/ Victor) Policy 3rd place
Victor Luo (w/ Benjamin) Policy 3rd place
Caty Szeto (w/ Kelly) PF Octafinalist
Kelly Wong (w/ Caty) PF Octafinalist
Stanley Yu LD Octafinalist
Jonathon Liu Extemp 6th place
Victor Luo Prose 3rd place
Jax Rounds Congress 4th place
Alex Zhao Congress 6th place

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That same weekend, the rest of our team was busy doing battle at the high school tournament, the Brushke Invitational at Cal State Fullerton.  The majority of our middle school policy teams competed here at Fullerton, in order to face better competition.  They did not disappoint.  Jerry Wang and Kirk Wu teamed up to achieve 2nd place in the Open Division of Policy debate, losing in finals on a questionable 2-1 decision favoring their opponents.  It was an extremely sophisticated debate, and very entertaining to watch.  You can catch a couple of clips from the round here:

Jerry speaking in the final round of Policy.

Kirk speaking in the final round of Policy. 

Here we see Fred, Jerry, Sally, and Melinda,all winners.

Meanwhile, in Novice policy, our teams were busy dominating:

Kudos closes out novice policy after semifinals!

Because our policy teams did so well, those students weren’t able to compete in the individual events they had prepared.  IE rounds conflicted with policy out-rounds.  Nevertheless, we did manage to field two entries into the individual events, one of whom trophied.  Congratulations to Edison for taking 3rd place in novice Extemp!

Here’s another picture:

Complete winners list from Fullerton:

Jerry Wang Open Policy 2nd place
Kirk Wu Open Policy 2nd place
Natalie Wang Novice Policy 1st place
Melinda Wang Novice Policy 2nd place
Joey Kiang Novice Policy 1st place
Sally Kang Novice Policy 2nd place
David Dosch Open LD Semi-finalist
Jeffery Jen Open PF Quarter-finalist
Celena Chen Open PF Quarter-finalist
Edison Wong Novice Extemp 3rd place
Posted by: kudos on Apr.17.2013 @ 2:11 pm
Filed under: Tournament Archive