Hi folks. The second state qualifying tournament (of three) took place last Friday through Sunday at Westmont H.S. The debaters worked Friday and Saturday and the speakers had their last shot on Sunday. The league qualified ten policy teams and nine Lincoln Douglas debaters. In individual speech events, the top three qualified, except in Foreign Extemp. (A bogus protest against another ruling-we were not involved- cost the third slot at the second qualifier...not that we're bitter. :-))

Please congratulate the following speakers and debaters. Quals for state wrap up this Thursday when JP leads the Congressmen to their qualifier at Kehillah Jewish H.S.)

Thanks for your continued support. Kim for the coaches.

Qualifiers are listed in bold.

Policy Debate
Minesh Patel/Amar Naik (the only undefeated team in the division.)
Phill Baker/Thomas Mathew
Matt Grimes/Dylan Groves
Chirag Shah/Gaurev Kumar

Lincoln Douglas Debate (Mike and Bobby were the only undefeated debaters in the division.)
Bobby Holley
Mike Jin
Robert Nieset

Original Advocacy

1st: Sagar Vijay
2nd: Chip Morton
3rd: Matt Grimes
5th: Bharat Panuganti

Humorous Interpretation
5th: Greg Lambrecht

Original Oratory
1st: Ananth Srinivasan
4th: Calvin Lee
6th: Vikas Yendluri
7th: Daniel Chung

Expository
2nd: Alex Muller
3rd: Kolby Hanson
5th: Yung Jae Chen
7th: Andy Mains

Foreign Extemporaneous
2nd: Phil Baker
3rd: Nihar Sha
5th: JP Padilla

U.S. Extemporaneous
1st: Evan Larson
2nd: Mike Guimarin

Oratorical Interpretation
1st: Mike Jin