Bentley wins Santa Clara Spring
View full results for Santa Clara Spring 2009-2010
The Santa Clara Philalethic Invitational ended at 1AM with a final round featuring Kate Epstein and Robert Van Unen from Los Gatos and Annie McKenna and Logan Brog from Bentley. On a 2-1 decision, Annie and Logan defeated Kate and Robert for the tournament title. For Logan, this was the fifth tournament championship in his career – and counting. No one else has won more than three high school parli tournaments. The victory also pushes Annie/Logan to #1 on POI Rankings. Bentley is coached by Bruce Jordan, Los Gatos is coached by Sharon Smith. Wonchan Yi of Leland captured the Top Speaker award.
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I wish we were there
We haven’t had a round in 3 weeks
Lol fyi, taman narayan is actually sam pandey, and ryan kuo is wonchan yi
Terribad judging so far…
Some of the resolutions seemed like they had been used at past SCU’s, or were very similar.
Yea, Leland chose to give nicknames to all of its seniors, like “Michael von Michaelson”
1. TH will not use public money to finance art.
3. TH will allow CA to secede from the US.
1. TH will support positive discrimination
2. TH will make English the official language of the United States
2. TH will subsidize nuclear power plants in the United States
3. TH will replace the income tax with a 20% flat tax
(Reasonably sure on wording)
Anyone know what they’re breaking to?
4. TH will prevent US professional athletes from competeing in the Olympic Games.
4. TH will enact a mandatory retirement age of 65 for federal judges.
the other one was something about a tax on internet gambling
1. TH will not use public money to finance art.
1. TH will support positive discrimination.
1. TH will replace the income tax with a 20% flat tax.
2. TH will subsidize nuclear power plants in the United States.
2. TH supports privatization.
2. TH will not pay its outstanding debts to the UN.
3. TH will allow CA to secede from the US.
3. TH will make English the official language of the United States.
3. TH will institute a two-term limit for Senates and Representatives of the House.
4. TH will institute a 5% tax on gambling on the internet.
4. TH will prevent US professional athletes from competing in the Olympic Games.
4. TH will enact a mandatory retirement age of 65 for federal judges.
Judging is either extremely good or extremely bad.
Judging was good for our first three rounds, but sucked after XD
Speaker awards:
novice
1. Danny Kim (Cupertino)
2. Chessa Mehlman (Las Lomas)
3. Aleena Saha (Cupertino)
open
1. Wonchan Yi (Leland)
2. Eugene Lee (Valley Christian)
3. Annie McKenna (Bentley)
more reses
5. TH will reduce the size of the USFG by 25%.
5. TH will ban human cloning.
5. TH will withdraw from the UN.
Breaks
1) Leland NK
2) LG EU
3) Lynbrook BM
4) Bentley MB
They break to sems?
Also, I thought breaks weren’t announced yet?
Breaks:
open (octas)
bentley mb
cupertino km
gunn ff
leland vg
leland nk (aka leland yp)
los gatos ev
lynbrook ay
lynbrook bm
lynbrook cr
lynbrook lk
lynbrook ll
lynbrook ry
mvla ss
notre dame kfv
saratoga ja
valley christian lt
novice (semis)
cupertino ks
saratoga za
gunn lt
wilcox pp
los gatos eu vs gunn ff
leland nk vs cupertino km
bentley mb vs valley christian lt
saratoga ja vs mountain view ss
lynbrook ay vs leland mg
lynbrook ck vs notre dame kf
other:
lynbrook ll
lynbrook ky
lynbrook lk
lynbrook bm
walkovers to be announced
LG EU is actually top seed. 5-0
Leland NK is second. 4-1
revised:
los gatos eu vs gunn ff
leland nk vs cupertino km
bentley mb vs valley christian lt
saratoga ja vs mountain view ss
lynbrook bm vs leland mg
lynbrook lk vs notre dame kf
lynbrook ay walked over lynbrook ll
lynbrook cr walked over lynbrook ry
Octafinals:
1. THW televise executions
2. THW allow drilling for oil in Alaska
3. THW allow prayer in schools
MVSS is actually Sushmita Sridhar & Elise Sugarman
Not Rylan Schaeffer & Akshay Shrivastava
haha, i thought so. I was wondering why it said that. Also, how’s the judging at SCU2?
judging sucks
Under Novice Semifinals, are those the real teams? As Harker and Evergreen both have no novice parli teams entered…
If Bently makes it past octos, they’ll probably win.
Definitely possible. Those guys are amazing
It’s hard to beat them in a lay rounds, but the best way to stop them is with flow judges.
Lynbrook AY dropped to Saratoga AJ on resolution:
THW eliminate the federal minimum wage
We were Aff.
SCU 2 Champion:
Saratoga AJ
Its already over? Wow, that was faster than expected…
Congrats to Saratoga
Quarters just ended for open parli, so there’s no way that a winner could have been decided.
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Dude, I just got back from the tourney, quarters ended like at 10pm…
I believe sems is Los Gatos EU vs. Saratoga AJ and Bentley BM vs. Cupertino MK
I’m sure it won’t be over till past midnight. After I cool off about the fail judging, I’ll post a more detailed “review” of this tournament. But for now, congrats to the teams that are still in.
All of Lynbrook is out btw.
Based off of what i know about those teams. Bentley will pick up and Los Gatos will also. Finals should be interesting haha
Once again, please do not insult any teams.
Such comments have now been deleted.
To clarify, my above comment was not directed at the comment right above it.
Go Bentley! love those guys
Is Bentley BM good?
Great Speakers and nice people, they’re smart too.
Does anyone know the results of sems?
Bentley BM moves onto finals
congrats to bentley for doing so well so far
LOL, i called it.
Los Gatos EU defeats Saratoga AJ in semis
finals: LG vs Bentley
LOL CALLED IT!!! Woo, i’m good. My next prediction is LG > Bentley
Notre Dame KF should be Notre Dame KFV-Brianna Krong debated with Prerana Vaddi today through Quarters and Adrienne Furniss during rounds 1-3.
I judged some good rounds but it did seem like judging was all over the place today. Hey thanks to the only judge who voted against them in prelims for basing your judgment on “wittiness” and the “fact” that Leland is always the best. (I do heart Leland, but its frustrating to coach a ballot like that)
SIGH. Congrats to whoever wins. I do recall Mr. Van Unen being particularly awesome when we put him to work in judge paneling at CFL State quals IE.
I had that judge who said that he wanted to see wittiness in the round. We ended up winning that round (yes, I am from Leland
but I felt that some of his criterion was legit…and some of the other stuff was…interesting.
I mean, it’s all good, teams were strong and whatnot and you have to be prepared for any judge, but as a coach, I just gotta tell em “Hey, sometimes you get the wacky judge, just do the best you can” and still be annoyed.
Especially since I flow like crazy and try to be a good judge. Ah well.
The win went to Bentley on a 2-1 decision. The round ended around 1.
If I’m not mistaken, this is Logan’s fifth tournament championship – pretty impressive, considering that that guy is still a junior.
Also, congrats to Robert/Kate. Now I feel like an idiot for not letting you guys into the Cali Cup, but I’m sure you’ll make waves at States.
Congrats to Sarthak for a nice end to his career and to Robert for finally getting a trophy – after 10 tourneys of being one ballot short of getting screwed on speaks.
Finally, kudos to Lillian Li, who got to quarters of a varsity tournament after doing debate for one week – LynbrookSD has a future.
P.S. Who is Galactica?
P.P.S. Notre Dame is listed as KFV is the field report, but as KV in elims, since KV debated in elims.
Galactica is the nickname for Alexandra Lee (from Leland)
Oh, I’m just blind. I thought it said KF in octos/quarters.
Congrats to all on good parli debating.
It did. I used my magic editor powers to make it say KV.
You should always use those powers for good and not evil, good sir.