SCJFL Third Quarter Tournament February 27th, 2021

This Saturday wraps up a terribly busy February for our students, marking the third and final tournament of the topic that our students have been working extremely hard on. Our students kept in high spirits and competed admirably, winning many awards along the way.
Jessica and Stephanie, Isabella and Jerry, Pearl and Sophia, and William and Ryan advanced to the 5th round!
Pearl and Sophia each won speaker awards (7th and 4th place, respectively!)
William Pan won 3rd place speaker. Additionally, William and Ryan advanced to the 6th round and was the 6th place overall team!

Two Irvine teams and two Irvine speakers earned awards. Out of the 6 debaters, 5 of them earned awards.
Sophia Dai and Melody Yu earned seventh place team overall, and Melody finished as the 10th overall speaker.
Claire Liu and Elaine Cui earned 8th place team honors. Susie Gu earned a 5th place speaker award.

On the LD side of things, we had Ashley Z, Annie, and Sarah all advance to the 6th round and won 14th place, 10th place, and 9th place respectively, with Sarah also winning 3rd place overall speaker in a pool of over 80 students!

In Congress, Kudos did exceptionally well as we have our all time over achiever Fiona Zhou took home the Congress Champion and Lindsey Jiang placed 2nd, Zachary Chang 3rd, Serena Guo 4th, Anne Liu 7th, Tim Cai 8th.
We also have quite a few who got advanced in this tournament, big shout out to : Soleil de Jesus, Michelle Zhang, Serena Guo, Veronica Shao, Celina Zhou, Zachary Chang, Evelyn Lam and Zachary Zhang.
Once again, we have the best Presiding Officer Award goes to Tim Cai ~

Congratulations to all the students for their respectable performance.

PF x 76
Final Ranking
6th William Pan & Ryan Wong
7th Sophia Dai & Melody Yu
8th Claire Liu & Elaine Cui

Semi-Finals
Isabella Ma & Jerry Zhang
Seth Chang & Susie Gu
Jessica Xue & Stephanie Jing
Pearl Hsieh & Sophia Ren

Speaker Awards
3rd Place William Pan
4th Place Sophia Ren
5th Place Susie Gu
7th Place Pearl Hsieh
10th Place Melody Yu

LD x 63
Final Ranking
9th Sarah Chen
10th Annie Jiang
14 Ashley Zhang

Speaker Awards
3rd Place Sarah Chen

Congress x 48
Final Ranking
1st Fiona Zhou
2nd Lindsey Jiang
3rd Zachary Chang
4th Serena Guo
7th Anne Liu
8th Tim Cai

Semi-Finals
Soleil de Jesus
Michelle Zhang
Serena Guo
Veronica Shao
Celina Zhou
Zachary Chang
Evelyn Lam
Zachary Zhang

Presiding Officer Award
Tim Cai