This fall has thus far featured three high school invitational tournaments:  Jack Howe, Oxford, and Fullerton.

Also, we have just completed our first MS league speech and debate tournaments of the year.

6th graders with very bright futures.

 

But let’s backtrack.  It’s a new season.  Let’s set the table.

So Kudos comes out of a strong nats, and into this season basically a two-tiered team.  We’ve got a smallish number of returning kids with good experience.  These kids are achieving right away, as we’ll see as we go through the results.

Also, however, we’ve got a large chunk of new folks, are still have before them some getting beaten up before they settle into themselves as debaters.

Thus, we’ve talked a lot this beginning of the year about the warrior spirit,

and about Ganbaru – the spirit of perseverance to see a job through to it’s successful completion.

And a successful 2014-15 means achieving some pretty lofty goals.  So I want to begin by giving credit to some of these new folks who’ve gone out of their ways to get in early competition rounds when possible.

Connie and Nanette battled it out at Oxford, before pairing again at the league tournament.  They soldiered through some bumps and bruises, and are ready for winning more rounds going forward.

Eric and Anthony – strong debaters already, though they do not yet believe it.  Fear not a few early losses, young warriors.  The future is bright.

Brandon – he’s thrown himself into the novice LD mix at two of our invitationals getting invaluable round experience.

Others may not be above mentioned, but all are appreciated.  Keep your spirits strong, young warriors.  You too shall achieve as have those that have come before you, if you have sufficient strength of spirit.

Results:

Jack Howe:

Kelly broke to octafinals in Varsity.  Quite an achievement in and of itself for an eighth grader.

Victor got 6th place in Dramatic Interp in Open.  Great job!

Oxford:

Justin Jiang – Quarterfinalist – Varsity LD

Kelly Wong – Champion – Varsity LD

Vincent Liu and Ian Chen – Quarterfinalists – Varsity PF

Hanging out after speaker awards.

Fullerton:

Mei Johnson and Michael Huang – 1st Place – Champion – MS PF

Shriya Padigepati – 1st Place – Champion – MS Congressional Debate

Sylvester Yue – 9th Speaker – MS LD

SCJFL Fall Speech 2014:

Shriya Padigepati – 1st Place – Champion – Expository Speaking

SCJFL Fall Debate 2014:

Vincent Liu and Ian Chen – 1st Place – Champions – Public Forum

Mei Johnson and Michael Huang – 2nd Place – Public Forum

Anjee Feng and Thomas Chon – 6th Place – Public Forum

Kelly Wong – 1st Place – Champion – LD

Shriya Padigepati – 2nd Place – LD

PF Top Speakers:

2nd Place: Mei Johnson — 87.5
3rd Place: Ian Chen — 86.87
5th Place: Michael Huang — 86.1
7th Place: Vincent Liu — 85.69
8th Place: Emma Chen — 84.5

LD Top Speakers:

2nd Place: Kelly Wong — 85
5th Place: Courtney Chan — 83.5
7th Place: Justin Jiang — 82
8th Place: Shriya Padigerati

Here are some pictures:

Fall debate LD champ. Great accomplishment. So proud of you.

But big goal this year.
No pressure.
But you know what I mean, right?
Big goal.
Singular goal.

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