Ben Buchman & Brian O’Reilly from Regis defeated Justin Budlow & Michael Ranch from Millburn to win the Yale Public Forum Extravaganza the weekend of September 28-30. For detailed results see:

Yale Public Forum Bracket

Yale Public Forum Packet

Here are the Public Forum Debate results from the Florida State University Gregg Phifer Invitational Tournament.

Quarterfinals
Lassiter LW (Megan Lively & Dani Weit)
Dreyfoos BL (Chris Bahls-Mariles & Jennifer Lee)
Dreyfoos HM (Jemmy Hinkly & Rachael Mielke)
Seminole Ridge MR (Stephanie MacInnes & Ashley Richey)

Semifinals
Dreyfoos DF (Emily Dyess & Zoe Friedland)
Seminole Ridge AO (Devon Arnold & Edward O’Hara)

Finalists
Wellington KW (Hayley Kolich & Alex Woolf)

Champions
Niceville PW (Mark Penner & Taylor Williams)

Patrick Toomey & Katherine Buse from Durham Academy (NC) defeated Jacob Boehm & Clara Kim from East Chapel Hill (NC) to win the Public Forum Division at the Harvard Debate Tournament. Durham Academy was the #1 seed and East Chapel Hill was the #3 seed after the preliminary rounds.

Jacob Boehm was the top speaker and Patrick Toomey was the third speaker.

Harvard is an octafinals qualifier for the Tournament of Champions.

Harvard Debate has posted complete tournament results.

• Team Rankings
• Speaker Rankings
• Tournament Bracket
• Results Packet

Victory Briefs Daily is reporting live from the Harvard Tournament which, for the first time, includes Public Forum Debate. Over 150 teams are competing in the Public Forum division. The tournament broke to double octafinals.

Durham Academy TB vs. Chaminade MC
Chaparral Unaffiliated FC vs. North Allegheny VV
East Chapel Hill BK vs. Nova BN
Southern Lehigh DU vs. Belen Jesuit PR
Regis HW vs. Randolph BG
Manchester Essex BP vs. Cary Academy PT
Stoneman Douglas NG vs. Freehold Township CS
Needham LF vs. Chaparral Unaffiliated RU
Mauldin TT vs. Trinity Prep FS
Manchester Essex MK vs. Chaminade MG
Foothill AF vs. Lincoln-Sudbury LS
Jupiter GK vs. Regis OD
Regis GG vs. Lincoln-Sudbury KL
Chaparral Unaffil BG vs. Cheyenne East DD
Bridgewater-Raritan JG vs. Plano Senior TL
Pinecrest (NC) BP vs. Rocky Mountain HS

Congratulations to Cynthia Liu & Drew Schuster and Lucia Lorenz & Melissa Gass from West Lafayette High School. These two teams closed out the Public Forum division at the Indiana State Tournament this past weekened.

Victory Briefs Daily has complete results from the Indiana State Tournament.

We are tracking state tournament results on the PFDebate Wiki. Please add your state tournament dates and results to the wiki. If you don’t feel comfortable editing the wiki, send us the information by email.

Donald DeCray & Rachel Urban from Southern Leigh (PA) defeated Dennis Howe & Rob Wyllie from Regis (NY) on a 3-2 decision to win The Barkley Forum.

Victory Briefs Daily will have full results of the Public Forum division of The Barkley Forum posted soon.

The Barkley Forum takes place at Emory University in Atlanta this weekend. Victory Briefs Daily is reporting live, but it is doubtful that they will have extensive Public Forum coverage.

We would love to post Public Forum results if someone wants to send them in. If someone can send us a tournament schedule, we can probably arrange to post the results in a a very timely manner.

Last weekend 73 teams participated in the the open division at The Crestian tournament. Teams with a 4-2 or better record advanced. In total, 22 teams advanced. The elimination rounds began with partial double octafinals. The tournament should be a TOC qualifier.

In the final round, Grace Wallack & Dede Pless from Durham Academy (NC) defeated Donald DeCray & Rachel Urban from Southern Lehigh (PA) on a 3-0 decision.

Adam Bloch & Ben Grossman from Chaparral HS (AZ) defeated Johnny Amiri and Connor Fitzpatrick from Foothill HS (NV) to win the ASU Southwest Championship this past weekend. The open division consisted of 73 teams.

Amiri & Fitzpatrick are now unofficially full-qualified for the Tournament of Champions.

Please help us fill in any missing information on our 2007 TOC wiki page.