As our debate season continues amidst a global pandemic, our diligent students have continued to put forth exceptional work and effort despite the obvious handicap of having all of our practices and tournaments being done remotely.

This tournament was especially stressful for our students because of just how many responsibilities our students have to handle this semester while also practicing and researching for debate. Regardless, our students went in determined (and sleepy) and brought forth outstanding effort in the face of some really top notch competition.

We have to highlight just how difficult it is to debate online — people disconnect, they talk over each other, and their latency may lag and they may miss arguments. Despite this, Kudos had an amazing showing at this tournament, having both our IR and TC offices making up the vast majority of the semi-finals and the final rounds. Below, you will see the results of our TC and Irvine teams.

There were 31 total entries in LD, and we brought 6 competitors. Of those 6, 5 advanced, and then 4 of them took the top 6 places overall!

PF (Total 24 teams consisting of 47 competitors):
Semi-finalists:
Sophia Ren and Pearl Hsieh

Team Placement:
First Place – Claire Liu & Elaine Cui
3rd Place – William Pan & Ryan Wong
4th Place – Sophia Dai (Maverick)
6th Place – Susie Gu & Seth Chang

Speaker awards:
Susie Gu = 3rd
William Pan = 5th
Sophia Lin = 6th
Pearl Hsieh= 7th
Seth Chang = 8th
Sophia Dai = 9th
Elaine Cui = 10th

LD (Total 31 competitors)
Semi-finalists
Ashley Lim

Team placement
1st Place – Katherine Kligys
3rd Place – Ashley Zhang
4th Place – Sarah Chen
5th Place – Annie Jiang

Speaker Awards:
1st = Katherine Kligys
4th = Sarah Chen
10th = Annie Jiang

Congress Results (Irvine and Temple City teams combined) Coached by Evan Feldman:

Festival finals for congress (Out of Final 24 places, Total 48 competitors):
1st Place: Lindsey Jiang
4th Place: Claire Wen
5th Place: Veronica Zhao
6th Place: Zachary Chang
8th Place: Anne Liu
9th Place: Soleil de Jesus
10th Place: Kelly Lin
11th Place: Tim Cai
14th Place: Andy Hou
17th Place: Fiona Zhou
18th Place: Bena Feng
19th Place: Juliana Cui
23rd Place: Emily Sun
24th Place: Michelle Zhang

The competition was very talented, but all throughout the tournament our students never lost their determination and kept fighting to the end despite how tiring this activity can be.
Thank you all so much for your hard work and working so hard to speak up and develop their voice. We sincerely wish you all happy holidays and a happy new year. The season isn’t over, though, and as 2020 comes to a close (finally), our students will be ready for the next tournament!

Temple City Teams ~

Irvine Teams

Irvine Teams