Kudos Irvine finished as champions at the first ever online SCJFL tournament on April 11th, 2020. Kudos Irvine also had the top overall speaker. The students showed remarkable determination to successfully complete a 13 hour online tournament and finish as champions.
Ava Ye and Joy Sun earned 1st place team honors. Sarah Chen and Annie Jiang earned 3rd place. Additionally, Ava Ye earned the top overall speaker award. Kudos Irvine had 4 out of the top 10 overall speakers.

Teams from Temple City, Stephanie Jing and Jessica Xue earned 6th place and Joleen Wong, Susie Gu took home 8th place.

Kudos congress students had a great performance at the final SCJFL regular season debate tournament of the year.
Out of the four SCJFL Congress tournaments this year, Kudos has had a staggering 54 of the 62 breaks including 46 of the possible 53 finalists, all four top Presiding Officers, and three of four championships.

Tim Cai won best presiding officer for the second time, and he is the only student in the league to accomplish this feat.
2nd year competition team member, Kalen Han, took top three at every league tournament he attended, only losing the championship to the reigning national champion.

He, Kerry Zhang, Lindsey Jiang, broke at every tournament they attended this year.

Kalen (3x), Lindsey, Fiona Zhou(3x), and Kelly Lin finish the regular season as the only students in our league to have placed in the top 6 at multiple league tournaments this year.

Special shoutouts to Kelly (6th grader) and Lindsey(4x finalist) who broke at all four league tournaments.
Zachary Chang, Michael Cheng, Alen Zhang, Felix Peng made elimination rounds for the first time this season, which means they have qualified to attend SCJFL So-Cal Championships.

33 Students in our entire league have qualified to the upcoming championship tournament (May 1st-3rd), and 25 of them are from Kudos (they are all listed below).
SO-CAL CHAMPS QUALIFIERS: Andrew Huang, Callie Chen, Serena Guo, Michael Cheng, Carissa Yu, Fiona Zhou, Ashley Zhang, Uma Shukla, Lindsey Jiang, David Du, Kelly Lin, Tim Cai, Kalen Han, Claire Wen, Jolene Chou, Carolyn Chan, Kerry Zhang, Alen Zhang, Felix Peng, Larry Shi, Bena Feng, Abigail Shih, Zachary Chang, Anne Chen