NYC Urban Debate League Schools and Debaters make history by dominating the Harvard Tournament with 35 Awards … and 1st Place!
<p> </p><p>New York City Urban Debate League students dominate the Harvard University Tournament with more awards than any other program! </p><p> </p><p><em>Not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34</em>… <span style=font-size: 16px;”><strong>BUT 35 DIFFERENT AWARDS</strong></span> ACROSS TWO DEBATE EVENTS AND FOUR DEBATE DIVISIONS to UDL schools! Including <span style=”font-size: 14px;”><strong>#1 Top Speaker Award of the entire Tournament!!</strong></span> Congratulations to the NYC Travel Team for incredible tournament. Thank you to all our schools and supporters. And a huge shout out to winning NYCUDL schools including: Brooklyn Tech! Stuvyesant HS! Wesfield High School! Worldview High School! Dreamyard Prep HS! Midwood High School! And a huge shout out to all our coaching staff and UDL coaches! And final huge thank you and shout out to Brown Rudick for your support and coming by and checking out debate rounds!! We would not have a debate league without you!! Awards Count Below for NYCUDL Schools…. </p><p> </p><!–more–><p><span style=”background-color: transparent;”>Harvard is considered one of the most competitive and is one of the largest debate tournaments in the nation .. and internationally – with teams traveling as far as China to compete. There were hundreds of schools and thousands of debaters. But New York City Urban Debate League Schools and Students took home more awards than any other program….. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong><span style=”background-color: transparent;”>Tournament Photo Album</span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href=”https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1579356458815579.1073741954.266212900129948&type=1&l=b91ad2502d” target=”_blank”><span style=”background-color: transparent;”>Click here for the Harvard Travel Team Photo Album</span></a></p><p> </p><p><span style=”background-color: transparent;”> </span></p><p><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>NYCUDL WINNERS IN JUNIOR VARSITY POLICY DEBATE</strong></span></p><p>Out of 176 Debaters participating…</p><p> </p><p>1st Place Top Speaker – Sadia Tarin (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>5th Place Top Speaker – Aidan Ng (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>7th Place Top Speaker – Eric Huang (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>8th Place Top Speaker – Alex Bavalsky (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>11th Place Top Speaker – Veronica Campanie (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>12th Place Top Speaker – Joanna Alexandropoulos (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>18th Place Top Speaker – Anne Rhee (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>19th Place Top Speaker – Mennal Zafar (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>20th Place Top Speaker – Abigaelle Nelson (Long Branch)</p><p>22nd Place Top Speaker – Andrea Huang (Stuyvesant HS)</p><p>25th Place Top Speaker – Lena Khasraf (Brooklyn Tech HS)</p><p>Semifinalist Top Team – Huang & Ng (Stuvyesant HS)</p><p>Quarterfinals Tp Team – Tarin & Alexandropoulos (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>Octafinals Top Team – Picallo & Campanie (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>Octafinals Top Team – Santora & Dumay (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>Doubles Top Team – Sadaqat & Zafar (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>Doubles Top Team – Khosrof & Bavalsky (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>Doubles Top Team – Melendez & Vinokur (Stuyvesant HS)</p><p> </p><p><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>NYCUDL WINNERS IN VARSITY POLICY DEBATE</strong></span></p><p>Out of 180 Debaters participating! …..</p><p> </p><p>4th Place Top Speaker – Isaac Segal (Stuyvesant HS)</p><p>5th Place Top Speaker – David Dokorman (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>7th Place Top Speaker – Matteo Wong (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>9th Place Top Speaker – Kadiatou Barry (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>19th Place Top Speaker – Thedore Puccio (Brooklyn Tech)</p><p>Finals Top Team – Segal & Doktorman (Stuyvesant HS)</p><p> </p><p><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>NYCUDL WINNERS IN JUNIOR VARSITY PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE</strong></span></p><p>There were 588 debaters participating!!…</p><p> </p><p>8th Place Top Speaker – Jeremy Lee (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>25th Place Top Speaker – Aidah Masoud (Worldview High School)</p><p>36th Place Top Speaker – Kailiey Zhao (Wesfield High School)</p><p>Octofinals Top Team – Green & Lee (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>Octofinals Top Team – Annenburg & Han (Stuyvesant HS)</p><p>Triples Top Team – Gur & Tran (Midwood HS)</p><p>Triples Top Team – Deirio & Abreu (Dreamyard HS)</p><p>Triples Top Team – Mehta & Zhao (Westfield High School)</p><p> </p><p><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>NYCUDL WINNERS IN VARSITY PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE</strong></span></p><p>There were 711 debaters participating…</p><p> </p><p>13th Place Top Speaker – Daniel Ju (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>19th Place Top Speaker – Abraham Rohrig (Stuyvesant High School)</p><p>26th Place Top Speaker – Eliza Spinna (Stuyvesant HS)</p><p> </p><p><strong>WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!</strong></p><p> </p><p>Thank you everyone for your support to make this magic happen!! Thank you to all our schools! Thank you to all our coaches! Thank you to all our students!! Thank you to all our volunteers! Thank you to all our donors and supporters for providing the means to make everything possible! Thank you to Harvard for incredible hosting and incredible tournaemnt. </p><p> </p><p>Next stop… the Westchester Classic next weekend!! Good Luck Everyone!</p><p> </p>”