On 10/24, 1st Quarter Debate Tournament Online 2020, we had an outstanding number of students make it to the out rounds of competition this tournament.

Our Public Forum semifinalists were: Isabella Ma & Jerry Zhang and Hanbo Xu & Ethan Dong!

Public Forum finalists were: William Pan & Ryan Wong!

In Lincoln Douglas, our Semi-finalist was Katelyn Gan, and our finalists were Ashley Zhang, Sarah Chen, and Annie Jiang!

Here is a list of the awards that were given to our wonderful competitors!
Lincoln Douglas:
Katherine Klygis (10th place speaker)
Sarah Chen (7th place speaker)
Katelyn Gan (6th place speaker)
Ashley Zhang (4th place speaker)
Annie Jiang (2nd place speaker, 4th place overall)

Public Forum:
Isabella Ma (7th place speaker)
William Pan (2nd place speaker)

The competition was tough, the tournament was an endurance test, and the online platform was challenging in and of itself, but our students never lost determination to do their best and continue to improve.
Kudos is coming out strong for our first tournament, and we will seek to continue this momentum on to the next tournament!

Congress team , All 14 of the 14 students in congress finals, including Congress and P.O champions Bena Feng and Tim Cai were from Kudos.
This is the 2nd year in a row where Bena has won the first tournament of the year.
Tim won his third gavel, and has won the presiding officer competition more than anyone in our league over the past two years.

Evelyn Lam, Zachary Zhang, Juliana Cui, Kelly Liu, and Veronica Shao all made finals in their first tournament as members of the competition team.
In addition, first year students Michelle Zhang, Larry Zhou, and Ayden Fang were the next three students out from making it to the final round.
Third year member Larry Shi got perfect speaker points in his first and second round, which was more than any other competitors in the tournament.

Special shoutouts to Soleil Dejesus who had her best tournament and almost broke to the final round. Finally, congratulations to 8th graders Fiona Zhou, Claire Wen, Zachary Chang and Lindsey Jiang for being the top three seeds coming out of the preliminary rounds. Go Kudos!