Adwait Parker, Norman Yao Win Vassar
HVC finalists Norman Yao and Adwait Parker
Congratulations to Schreiber’s Adwait Parker and Ridge’s Norman Yao for advancing to the final round of the 2005 Hudson Valley Challenge. In order to prevent the “challenge” of debating a late round in an impending snowfall, Adwait and Norman were declared co-champions.
Adwait is coached by Jake Gelfand. Norman is coached by Dave Yastremski, Laurie Johnson, and Dario Camara.
In a similar situation, the J.V. division was closed out by two most talented debaters as well: Peter Damrosch of Berkeley Carroll and William Lee of Hunter. Congratulations to both!
Peter is coached by Jim Shapiro. William is coached by Noel Selegzi.
(17) Hendrick Hudson EI (Eric Insler)
OCTAS
(1) Akiba DT def. (16) Millburn BS (Brandon Sherman)
3-0 (Matt Scarola, Jon Cruz, Shoshana Gordon-Ginsburg)
(2) Schreiber AP def. (14) Hunter NG (Nick Gottlieb)
3-0 (Tim Hogan, Chetan Hertzig, Jon Helfgott)
(3) Lexington AB def. (12) Hunter HR (Hope Reichbach)
3-0 (Matt Rand, Ben Eidelson, Jake Gelfand)
(4) Half Hollow Hills East JP def. (13) Bronx Science TT (Ting Ting Tam)
3-0 (Tim Hogan, Chetan Hertzig, Jon Helfgott)
(5) Berkeley Carroll JL def. (8) Hunter ZS (Zayn Saddique)
2-1 (John McNeil, *Ross Keogh, Jed Glickstein)
(6) Ridge AC def. (9) Lexington JL (Justin LeClair)
3-0 (John McNeil, Ross Keogh, Jed Glickstein)
(10) Lexington MC def. (7) Millburn SL (Steven Liu)
2-1 (*Matt Rand, Ben Eidelson, Jake Gelfand)
(11) Ridge NY def. (15) Hendrick Hudson EV (Erin Vehstedt)
(Matt Scarola, Jon Cruz, Shoshana Gordon-Ginsburg)
QUARTERS
(10) Lexington MC def. (1) Akiba DT (David Tykocinski)
3-0 (Jake Gelfand, Jed Glickstein, Jon Helfgott)
(2) Schreiber AP def. (4) Half Hollow Hills East JP (Josh Parker)
3-0 (Matt Rand, Tim Hogan, Shoshana Gordon=Ginsburg)
(11) Ridge NY def. (3) Lexington AB (Aram Boghosian)
2-1 (Ross Keogh, John McNeil, *Christina Sheehan)
(5) Berkeley Carroll JL def. (6) Ridge AC (Angela Cai)
3-0 (Matt Scarola, Chetan Hertzig, Ben Eidelson)
SEMIS
(2) Schreiber AP def. (10) Lexington MC (Micki Chernick)
3-0 (Shoshana Gordon-Ginsburg, Tim Hogan, Jed Glickstein)
(11) Ridge NY def. (5) Berkeley Carroll JL (Jacob Levi)
3-0 (Matt Scarola, John McNeil, Chetan Hertzig)
FINALS
(2) Schreiber AP and (11) Ridge NY are declared co-champions.
(John McNeil, Jed Glickstein, Tim Hogan, Chetan Hertzig, Matt Scarola)
CO-CHAMPIONS
(2) Schreiber AP (Adwait Parker)
(11) Ridge NY (Norman Yao)
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TOP SPEAKERS
1. David Tykocinski (Akiba Hebrew, PA)
2. Adwait Parker (Schreiber, NY)
3. Aram Boghosian (Lexington, MA)
4. Jacob Levi (Berkeley Carroll, NY)
5. John Schultz (Westbury, NY)
6. Micki Chernick (Lexington, MA)
7. Sarah Holcomb (Ridge, NJ)
8. Norman Yao (Ridge, NJ)
9. Josh Parker (Half Hollow Hills East, NY)
10. Hope Reichbach (Hunter, NY)
11. Ting Ting Tam (Bronx Science, NY)
12. Greg Hertz (Millburn, NY)
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HVC J.V. finalists William Lee and Peter Damrosch
J.V. OCTAS
(1) Berkeley Carroll PD def. (15) Niskayuna AW (Alex Williams)
2-1 (*Ryan Hamilton, Marlene Colonna, Jennifer Wassen)
(16) Arlington PF def. (2) Half Hollow Hills East AS (Amanda Sabele)
2-1 (Dario Camara, Adam Gilbert, *Asher Leventhal)
(3) Hunter WL def. (14) Hills East JS (Joanna Schlingbaum)
3-0 (Ryan Hamilton, Marlene Colonna, Jennifer Wassen)
(13) Hunter SA def. (4) Arlington MS (Munier Saleem)
3-0 (Dario Camara, Adam Gilbert, Asher Leventhal)
(10) Hunter LB def. (5) Arlington VD (Vanessa-Faith Daubman)
3-0 (Ben Grunwald, Chris Blaine, Loralynne Krobetzky)
(6) Arlington JC def. (8) Princeton JN (Jimmy Newcombe)
3-0 (Ben Grunwald, Chris Blaine, Loralynne Krobetzky)
(7) Akiba SE def. (11) Hills East HR (Harris Rovinsky)
2-1 (Rahul D’Sa, *Rebecca Jackson, Mike Welch)
(12) Akiba AL def. (9) Arlington MG (Mariel Gruszko)
3-0 (Rahul D’Sa, Rebecca Jackson, Mike Welch)
J.V. QUARTERS
(1) Berkeley Carroll PD def. (16) Arlington PF (Priya Farooq)
3-0 (Allison Lotto, Chris Blaine, Dario Camara)
(3) Hunter WL def. (7) Akiba SE (Sara Eidelson)
2-1 (Jon Cruz, Meg Dallett, Loralynne Krobetzky)
(10) Hunter LB def. (6) Arlington JC (Jeff Colonel)
2-1 (Asher Leventhal, *Ben Grunwald, Rahul D’Sa)
(13) Hunter SA def. def. (12) Akiba AL (Alexandra List)
2-1 (Jennifer Wassen, Marlene Colonna, *Ryan Hamilton)
J.V. SEMIS
(1) Berkeley Carroll PD def. (13) Hunter SA (Sabrina Ali)
forfeit (Chris Blaine, Dario Camara, Jon Helfgott)
(3) Hunter WL over (10) Hunter LB (LiMing Bao)
J.V. FINALS
(1) Berkeley Carroll PD and (3) Hunter WL are declared co-champions.
J.V. CO-CHAMPIONS
(1) Berkeley Carroll PD (Peter Damrosch)
(3) Hunter WL (William Lee)
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TOP SPEAKERS
1. Peter Damrosch (Berkeley Carroll, NY)
2. Munier Saleem (Arlington, NY)
3. Vanessa-Faith Daubman (Arlington, NY)
4. Alexandra List (Akiba Hebrew, PA)
5. Amanda Sabele (Half Hollow Hills East, NY)
6. Sabrina Ali (Hunter, NY)
7. Jeff Colonel (Arlington, NY)
8. William Lee (Hunter, NY)
9. Joanna Schlingbaum (Half Hollow Hills East, NY)
10. Rebecca Jonas (Akiba Hebrew, PA)
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Posted from: 207.172.84.59
March 6th, 2005 16:25
Congratulations Adwait and Norman!
Posted from: 68.193.70.140
March 6th, 2005 16:36
I have a question. Why is Norman Yao so hot?
Posted from: 152.163.100.203
March 6th, 2005 16:51
The Vassar tournament was by far the most enjoyable of the season. My prelim judging draw consisted of Peter Petraro, Jake Gelfand, John Mcneil, Jed Glickstein and Matt Scarola - in octas the panel was Cruz, Scarola and Ginsburg…
nuff said
The food was great too, and Poughkeepsie was…fun
Special thanks to Jon Cruz for working exceptionally hard to subvert the efforts of the parli debaters
Posted from: 129.64.147.87
March 6th, 2005 16:58
Congrats to Adwait and Norman, Jon Cruz for getting locked out of the tab room by the parli team, Tim Hogan for getting lost in Times Square, the Lexington team for letting me crash on my floor, Aram for sucking at subjective guess who, Jacob Levi for eating all the cranberries, Rahul for not breaking off our engagement, Chetan Hertzig for shutting the front door, Matt Scarola for being lame, and everyone else.
Posted from: 24.44.225.6
March 6th, 2005 17:13
Norman or Adwait?
Posted from: 67.9.103.228
March 6th, 2005 17:16
congrats guys
especially adwait who is unstoppable
Posted from: 70.241.94.223
March 6th, 2005 17:20
Congratz to mah boy Jacob Levi!
Posted from: 68.199.223.14
March 6th, 2005 19:12
will packets be available online?
Posted from: 24.185.45.181
March 6th, 2005 19:16
“?”, I asked before we departed the tournament and full results packets should be online by the end of the week.
Posted from: 68.192.155.98
March 6th, 2005 19:23
in response to the either or…definitely adwait. =)
Posted from: 205.188.116.203
March 6th, 2005 20:03
Congratulations, Levi!
Posted from: 24.131.177.141
March 6th, 2005 21:36
A few “thank you”s are in order…
Thanks to Jon for putting up with and eventually taking down the people who locked him out of the tab room (one of several fascinating decisions they made over the weekend). Notwithstanding their sketchiness, this tournament was definitely fun and different.
Thanks to Norman Yao for neither talking about skinning squirrels nor actually doing so when I judged him. I welcome change.
Thanks to Rahul D’Sa for embracing the concept of new in the 2. I’ve been waiting for that to happen for ages!
Thanks to Matt Scarola for stealing the covers. Don’t deny it.
Thanks to Adwait Parker for at least talking about gifts, even if he didn’t give me any.
Thanks to Kate Hoffmire and Justin LeClair for accompanying me in my quest for Chinese food, even if the tofu was laced with cocaine.
Thanks to Micki Chernick for performatively meeting the standard, or at least thinking about doing so.
Finally, thanks to Shoshana Gordon-Ginsburg for getting out of the car.
Posted from: 205.188.116.203
March 6th, 2005 21:37
Congrats, Jacob.
“In order to prevent the “challenge” of debating a late round in an impending snowfall, Adwait and Norman were declared co-champions.”
Jon Cruz, why are your puns so impressive?
Posted from: 24.47.175.19
March 7th, 2005 12:46
Super congrats to Peter in JV, who raped me in the third round. ;)
Posted from: 64.12.116.203
March 7th, 2005 15:24
wasn’t JV a semis close out with 3 hunter debaters and 1 from berkeley carroll?
Posted from: 65.73.6.205
March 7th, 2005 17:11
To Harris:
:P You and your stupid polar bear…but really, he wasn’t that fast…what was the problem?
And yes, JV Semifinals were a closeout because apparently, no one felt like debating…
Posted from: 24.47.175.19
March 7th, 2005 17:17
priya- he cut an entire contention after going up against me. imagine how much faster he was with it ;)
Posted from: 151.205.122.241
March 7th, 2005 17:29
Hah Peter is a beast
Posted from: 65.73.6.205
March 7th, 2005 18:40
In my quarterfinals round, however, speed was never an issue. I needed no help in losing…I ended up screwing myself by contradicting my value criterion…shameful, really.
And you know Harris, if I had known speed was a problem for you, I would have gone MUCH faster ^_^
Posted from: 24.47.128.145
March 7th, 2005 18:53
Congrats Adwait for winning yet again. Although i was looking forward to seeing someone beat him :-P
Posted from: 24.29.141.152
March 7th, 2005 18:55
lol priya when i hit u i cut my 3rd and half of my second contentions, harris though u and that mad short niskyuna kid r the 2 coolest kids there(including me and the hunter kids =)any1 going to states here?
Posted from: 24.29.141.152
March 7th, 2005 18:57
lol priya and i have a question, wat was w/ that glare u gave me from accross the room after i was 1st seed and challenged u 2nd seed? were u that pissed lol
Posted from: 65.73.6.205
March 8th, 2005 02:38
The glare was for so blatantly addressing every single one of my past opponents in the main auditorium, where I could plainly see you. It seemed arrogant…it WAS arrogant. I had figured out much earlier that you would challenge me…no surprise there…
I going to States…so is second seed, my octas opponent, last time I checked…
Posted from: 167.206.174.75
March 8th, 2005 04:12
haha- that was amazing. i loved that evil glare. anyway- everyone that broke from our school is going, along with a bunch a varsity, and a few more novices. petey- u going JV or novice….
ps- damn straight im the coolest there.
Posted from: 216.223.203.62
March 8th, 2005 08:51
i dunno i’ll have to decide, u qual’d for novice or jv harris?, lol priya they only had ur aff, and besides i had ur coach as a judge so i was positive u were gonna prep on my case anyways, lol and jacob since i kno ur on ur computer right now, ur a beast 2 =)
Posted from: 138.16.29.203
March 9th, 2005 17:51
Norman Yao is my hero.
Posted from: 167.206.174.75
March 11th, 2005 05:41
I dropped 2-1. Rebecca Jackson voted for me. FYI
Posted from: 128.122.128.25
March 11th, 2005 07:48
The quarters round I judged was a 2-0, not a 3-0. ACCURACY PLEASE!
Posted from: 167.206.174.75
March 11th, 2005 07:57
haha. i heard that someone wouldnt decide because hey both sucked. that true?
Posted from: 70.56.92.9
March 12th, 2005 11:20
Looking at the judging pool, and the decisions, I’m noticing that a lot of the decisions were 3-0’s. This is interesting, because it’s a testament to the quality of judging. As the gap between the majority and minority rises (i.e. as the majority grows larger), the probability of a wise decision rises exponentially, speaking just in terms of probability (Dahl 1989). Of course, one could say that a lot of panels full of f/lay judges can unanimously decide unwisely, but this attributes too much predictability to those judges; I think we can all agree that their decisions are more arbitrary.
So it is quite clear that the judging pool is quite awesome.
Posted from: 4.172.234.19
March 12th, 2005 16:18
All the Quarters rounds in JV were 3-0 except for the Arlington JC/Hunter LB round. In semis, Berkeley Carroll PD was paired with Hunter LB, but they declined the round, so it stopped at semis.
Posted from: 24.29.141.152
March 13th, 2005 14:43
yea there was a round which was 2-0, was it jed glictstien? anyways wait yea it was adwait’s coach cause i was talking to him and he said neither side one any offense or the standard so there was really no winner, and yea me and LiMing (hunter) didn’t want a semi’s round, and the other 2 hunter ppl were gonna have to coach one of them over so it was just closed out