In the final round, Kelsey Hilbrich & Fred Enea from The Harker School (CA) defeated Josh Zoffer & Robert Kindman from Durham Academy (NC) to win the PFDebate.com National Public Forum Challenge III.
The field was reduced from 16 to 14 due to weather-related travel problems.
Octafinalists
Academic Magnet KC (Will Kulp & Medha Chandorkar)
Charlotte Latin DH (Aashana Desai & Kellen Heniford)
Harker JL (Justine Lin & Akshay Jagadeesh)
North Mecklenburg LD (Cameron Langford and Sam Dawson)
Spain Park YS (Sami Yousif & Grant Sides)
Thomas Jefferson YF (Emily Yu & Rebecca Friedman)
Quarterfinalists
Massey Hill Classical BP (Joshua Price & Bilal Butt)
University School RD (Bardia Rahmani & Michael DiMino)
American Heritage NC (Matthias Ng & Alvaro Cuba)
Lake Highland Prep BS (Shannen Bazzi & Hal Shimkoski)
Semifinalists
Spain Park BW (Jefferson Park Wynn & John Blinkerhoff)
Lake Highland Prep MW (Danny Welch & Will Miller)
Finalists
Durham Academy KZ (Josh Zoffer & Robert Kindman)
Champions
Harker HE (Kelsey Hilbrich & Fred Enea)
Complete results are available. More photos will be posted. The semifinal and final rounds were recorded and will be posted after they have been edited.
Update: Photos have been uploaded to Flickr.
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Wow….congrats to Durham and Harker. The final round proves the legitimacy of the event!
Congratulations to Harker and Durham. Does anyone have results for Laird?
Congrats to Kelsey and Fred….for winning and keeping their trophies!
Harker also won Laird Lewis, beating University School RD in finals.
What is the reference to keeping the trophies?
Congratulations to all teams involved in the Challenge. It was a tough pool, as was the Laird Lewis. To have all of the returning national championship teams in attendance speaks volumes about the Laird Lewis and PF Challenge in terms of the level of competition but also the fabulous hosts at Myers Park. Thank you to Jason, Andrew, Bob and all of the students and parents at Myers Park for another wonderful weekend in North Carolina!!!
The Durham Team did not keep their second place trophies after the tournament.
When will the pictures be posted?
I assume they decided to donate the trophies to charity? It’s nice to see such thoughtfulness and maturity from our future leaders.
At least one of them threw his trophy in the bushes at MP. He even admitted it on Facebook. Way for a NFL National Champion to act
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Haha, surley your kidding. They care that much about debate? Hahha, meet a girl..
When will the recording of the final round be posted?