The weekend of April 13th and 14th featured two tournaments:  The Glendale Middle School Invitational and the Brushke (High School) Invitational held at Cal State Fullerton.  The Glendale tournament is designed to be a warm-up for nationals, and draws schools from throughout the state.  Against this high level competition, our Kudos middle schoolers once again brought home plenty of hardware:

Kudos winners celebrate triumph.  From left to right: Benjamin, Victor, Alex, Jax, Kelly, Caty, Melinda, Mei, and Cicily.

Caty, along with her partner Kelly, broke to octafinals in PF, while Melinda did especially well, bringing home the championship in two different events:  HI and OO!

Caty and Melinda

It wasn’t all business though, as Stanley, Benjamin, and Victor share a happy moment before awards:

Left to right: Benjamin, Victor, and Stanley.

Here’s another picture of our happy warriors.

Complete winners list from Glendale:

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That same weekend, the rest of our team was busy doing battle at the high school tournament, the Brushke Invitational at Cal State Fullerton.  The majority of our middle school policy teams competed here at Fullerton, in order to face better competition.  They did not disappoint.  Jerry Wang and Kirk Wu teamed up to achieve 2nd place in the Open Division of Policy debate, losing in finals on a questionable 2-1 decision favoring their opponents.  It was an extremely sophisticated debate, and very entertaining to watch.  You can catch a couple of clips from the round here:

Jerry speaking in the final round of Policy.

Kirk speaking in the final round of Policy. 

Here we see Fred, Jerry, Sally, and Melinda,all winners.

Meanwhile, in Novice policy, our teams were busy dominating:

Kudos closes out novice policy after semifinals!

Because our policy teams did so well, those students weren’t able to compete in the individual events they had prepared.  IE rounds conflicted with policy out-rounds.  Nevertheless, we did manage to field two entries into the individual events, one of whom trophied.  Congratulations to Edison for taking 3rd place in novice Extemp!

Here’s another picture:

Complete winners list from Fullerton: