The Cypress College Invitational took place on 12/8-12/9/2018. Kudos had 17 students participating in the middle school division.

LD student Christina Feng received perfect scores in her prelim rounds but was met with a strong opponent at the semi-finals and did not advance to Final, but her exceptional debate skills received the judges’ affirmation and she received the First Speaker Award.

Irvine PF students Ava Ye and Helaine Zhao paired up for the first time for this invitational and they were met with high schoolers in their first round. Although the nerves got them in the beginning but they grounded themselves and eventually had a 3 wins 2 losses overall result in the tournament. Afterwards they mentioned that they learned a lot of valuable lessons from the tournament and were happy to see the blind-spots they didn’t notice before.

Ingrid Luo from Irvine got placed 3rd in Congress and Kerry Zhang 9th. Their teammate Kalen Han also got into the Finals for the first time. We congratulate all of them!