Kudos swept the tournament this past weekend at East Los Angeles College with Kudos Irvine finishing as tournament champions and having the top overall speaker.

The students showed remarkable determination to successfully complete a 14 hour tournament and finish as champions.

Kudos Irvine brought 5 public forum teams; 3 of them finished in the top 4 overall, including the tournament champions and runners up.

Out of 10 students, 6 earned top 10 speaker awards including the 1st overall and 3rd overall speakers.

Annie Jiang and Sarah Chen earned 1st place team honors, and finished as tournament champions. Additionally, Annie Jiang earned the top overall speaker award and Sarah Chen earned 3rd place overall speaker.

Sophia Dai and Melody Yu were right behind them. Sophia and Melody finished as tournament runners up, earning the 2nd place overall team award. Sophia earned the 6th place overall speaker award. Joy Sun and Katelyn Gan finished as the 4th place team overall, and Katelyn earned 10th place speaker.

In Temple City, Of our 8 public forums teams, 6 made it into elimination rounds, and 2 of our 4 LD debaters qualified to elimination rounds.

Overall, Kudos had many successes, awards, and, most importantly, a lot of fun this past weekend! Each tournament gives our students more experience and more passion for this activity, and we are so very pleased by their performances this weekend.

Please enjoy your break, and we’ll see you in the new decade ready to continue to improve and get ready for the next tournament!

Congress:
Fiona Zhou – 1st place
Anne Chen – 2nd place
Lindsey Jiang – 4th place
Qianzi Loo – 5th place
Serena Guo – 6th place

LD:
Daniel Wu: 3rd place & 4th speaker
Rachel Xu: 6th place
Julianne Wu: 3rd Speaker
Nathan Chen: 9th Speaker

PF:
Annie Jiang 1st Place w/ Sarah Chen & 1st Speaker

Sarah Chen 1st Place w/ Annie Jiang & 3rd Speaker

Sophia Dai 2nd Place w/ Melody Yu & 6th Speaker

Melody Yu 2nd Place w/ Sophia Dai

Melody Chang & Katherine Kligys: 3rd Place & 8th Speaker

Joy Sun 4th Place w/ Katelyn Gan

Katelyn Gan 4th Place w/ Joy Sun & 10th Speaker

Shirlyn Huang w/ Madeline Ang: 6th Place

Stephanie Jing 7th Place w/ Jessica Xue & 7th Speaker

Susie Gu 8th place w/ Kaitlyn Huang & 5th Speaker

Jevon Mao 9th Speaker, Debated admirably with Nancy Sun

Nancy Sun Debated admirably with Jevon Mao

Claire Liu Debated admirably with Andy Chen

Andy Chen Debated admirably with Claire Liu

Congress coach Mr. Feldman led a warm-up circle before all students went to 1st round

Temple City PF team – girl power !!!

Let’s do it~

Waiting for results/trophies

Daniel Wu, LD 3rd place with coach Mr. Schaupp

Big Kudos debate family