Naz El-Khatib & Claire Kairys from North Allegheny (PA) defeated Charles Giardina & Jonathan Yip from The Collegiate School (NY) on a 4-3 decision to win the Public Forum Debate division at the 2008 Tournament of Champions in Lexington, KY.
Complete results below via Victory Briefs Daily.
Two things:
1. I’m assuming that KK advanced over the other North Allegheny team, Greg Vose & Vicky Lopez, without a debate.
2. If the finalists have photos, especially with the TOC trophies, we would love to post them.
Octafinals
Montgomery HJ def. Bronx Science RJ (Lev Raslin & Rohan Jotwani)
North Allegheny VL def. Harker HG (Kelsey Hilbrich & Kaavya Gowda)
Collegiate YG def. Manchester Essex EP (Max Elder & Jamie Pates)
New Trier GC def. Chapparral RU (Riley Roberts & Max Ullman)
North Allegheny KK def. Durham ZK (Josh Zoffer & Robert Kindman)
Ransom Everglades BB def. Harker AB (Raghav Aggarwal & Mohit Bansal)
Walt Whitman SE def. Ransom Everglades CS (Austin Crider & Amanda Scherker)
Timber Creek WS def. Walt Whitman WU (Ben Wolcott & Rachel Umans)
Quarterfinals
North Allegheny KK def. Montgomery HJ (George Harwood & Rush Jones)
North Allegheny VL def. New Trier GC (Joey Glickman & Zach Collins)
Timber Creek WS def. Ransom Everglades BB (Joe Bengochea & Charles Barr)
Collegiate YG def. Walt Whitman SE (Aaron Schifrin & Alex Edelman)
Semifinals
North Allegheny KK over North Allegheny VL (Greg Vose & Vicky Lopez)
Collegiate YG def. Timber Creek WS (Kaitlyn Westerberg & Dave Schneider)
Finals
North Allegheny KK over Collegiate YG (4-3)
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Extremely impressive!!! Well done NA!
Collegiate is in NY.
That’s awesome! Congrats to Naz and Claire! Way to sweep TOCs!
Congratulations to Naz and Claire and Collegiate! Extremely close debate (4-3 decision) both teams did very well and deserved to be in the final round at TOCs!
You did OK yourself, Vicky!
Timer Creek WS def. Ransom Everglades BB (Joe Bengochea & Charles Barr)
Should be TimBer