Adwait Parker Wins the Chesapeake Bay Invitational
CBI finalists Adwait Parker and Hirsh Jain
The fourth annual Chesapeake Bay Invitational has come to a close. In the final round of the tournament, Schreiber’s Adwait Parker faced OHSODEF’s Hirsh Jain to vie for the tournament title. In a round adjudicated by Pat Fitch, Tom Evnen, Max Stevens, Jon Cruz, Navot Tidhar, Daryl Pinto, and the combined student vote, Adwait won the tournament on a 7-0 decision. Congratulations to both finalists!
Adwait is coached by Jake Gelfand. Hirsh is coached by Vikrum Aiyer, Andrew Garvin, and Sanjeet Mitra.
In addition to being first speaker, Adwait dropped not a single ballot the entire weekend. Stay tuned for an interview with Pat Fitch this week, as well as updated (and individual, and coherent!) interviews with Adwait and Jake in the near future.
PARTIAL QUARTERS
(1) Schreiber AP byes
(7) Hockaday AM def. (2) La Jolla AS (Alex Smith)
2-1 (Jon Cruz, *Jake Gelfand, Daryl Pinto)
(6) OHSODEF HJ def. (3) Scarsdale JG (Jon Gordon)
3-0 (Jon Cruz, Jake Gelfand, Tom Evnen)
(4) OHSODEF FT def. (5) Highland Park CC (Corbin Cass)
2-1 (*Max Stevens, Tom Evnen, Navot Tidhar)
SEMIS
(1) Schreiber AP vs. (4) OHSODEF FT (Fabien Thayamballi)
3-0 (Tom Evnen, Stacy Thomas, Max Stevens)
(6) OHSODEF HJ vs. (7) Hockaday AM (A.J. Motgi)
3-0 (Jake Gelfand, Navot Tidhar, Jon Cruz)
FINALS
(1) Schreiber AP def. (6) OHSODEF HJ (Hirsh Jain)
7-0 (Pat Fitch, Tom Evnen, Max Stevens, Jon Cruz, Navot Tidhar, Daryl Pinto, Students [Jon Gordon, Scott Brainard, Corbin Cass, Alex Smith, A.J. Motgi, BobieJo Ferguson, Tim Walsh, Bryan Cory])
CHAMPION
(1) Schreiber AP (Adwait Parker)
1. Adwait Parker (Schreiber, NY)
2. Fabien Thayamballi (OHSODEF, CA)
3. Petey Gil (Schreiber, NY)
4. Bryan Cory (Jersey Village, TX)
5. Alex Smith (La Jolla, CA)
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Posted from: 208.54.95.129
April 3rd, 2005 17:23
This was an incredible tournament. Thank you Pat for running it so well, and thank you to the students who didn’t give me any reason to complain all weekend- ya’ll were all kinds of impressive- best of luck at TOC.
Posted from: 68.237.235.197
April 3rd, 2005 17:49
wow adwait is so dominant
Posted from: 68.196.129.16
April 3rd, 2005 17:57
Corbin=beastly
Posted from: 68.199.223.14
April 3rd, 2005 18:05
you mean quarters…
Posted from: 68.198.144.175
April 3rd, 2005 18:31
anyone wanna describe the final round?
Posted from: 128.12.94.42
April 3rd, 2005 18:51
congrats! and nice sweater, hirsh. =/ … i mean =)
Posted from: 68.0.96.228
April 3rd, 2005 19:09
Corbin=crunkjuice
Posted from: 70.241.99.155
April 3rd, 2005 19:37
I used to think Adwait was cool.
This just makes him cooler.
Congratz to Hirsh, Corbin, Smitty, fabien, jon, Aj, and others I am too lazy to name.
Posted from: 24.131.177.141
April 3rd, 2005 19:48
Alex touched my allegedly oily skin at Lexington, A.J. received a postcard of a double-decker bus from me when I was in London, Fabien drew cold steel at my request, and Adwait experienced the madhouse firsthand. Clearly, these experiences, though perhaps painful to the debaters at the time, paid off.
Posted from: 128.135.98.201
April 3rd, 2005 20:37
Was the student vote unanimous too?
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 3rd, 2005 20:56
“In addition to being first speaker, Adwait dropped not a single ballot the entire weekend.”
Posted from: 68.210.18.124
April 3rd, 2005 21:05
This weekend was amazingly productive and fun. Thanks for putting on a great tournament, Pat.
Posted from: 68.93.245.96
April 3rd, 2005 21:09
I want to thank Pat for providing the debate community with such a wonderful tournament. It is nice to have opportunities like this one where we can explore highly intellectual arguments in a friendly environment. This tournament was great fun even when we were wondering around lost in the cold rain.
Posted from: 68.93.245.96
April 3rd, 2005 21:11
I meant “wandering” … time to get some sleep.
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 3rd, 2005 21:45
Jacob and I had a really great time this weekend at the CBI; this was his first time in attendance, and my second. Pat set a high standard for himself last year, with great hospitality and excellent rounds. The tournament *easily* surpassed itself this year.
Thank you to all of the debaters for really interesting rounds - in particular to Adwait and Hirsh for a great final round - and to all of my fellow coaches and judges for great company this weekend. (Same goes for the debaters!) Most of all, though, thank you to Pat for providing this great tournament for the community. This was a major help in preparation for the TOC.
Posted from: 209.30.28.118
April 3rd, 2005 22:05
Echoing what Mrs. Thomas said, I thought the tournament was amazing and it was a privelege to get to debate at it, the judging was amazing as were the compeditors and especially pat fitch was amazing.
Posted from: 204.210.37.132
April 4th, 2005 00:33
despite my struggles with my bag (thanks corbin for finding it and no thanks to whoever put it in daryls hotel room), cbi was a really fun tournament. the judging was absolutely fantastic, the hospitality was phenomenal, and the competition was great (every person i debated was qualled). also, jon gordon is terrible at poker but somehow still wins. boo.
Posted from: 68.117.47.31
April 4th, 2005 07:24
Having played poker with Jon and Alex, regardless of whether Jon is terrible, I can say that Alex is the worst poker player in existence and has no right to criticize anybody else’s abilities.
Also, Adwait is HELLA good. kthxbye.
Posted from: 128.220.251.100
April 4th, 2005 09:18
Congrats to Adwait and Hirsh for a great final round, I think it - by a few miles - validated all the work I’ve tried to put in to make this a worthwhile weekend.
As an aside, I want to thank everyone who has participated in this tournament over the last four years in its various iterations (RR only, RR + tourney, then this year’s fusion of the two). I’m graduating from Hopkins this year, so the future of this weekend is uncertain. I hope to continue putting on this event, albeit in a different location next year. These last four years’ tournaments would not have been possible except for the continued support of schools like Walt Whitman, Schreiber, “OHSODEF,” and others who have made this event possible. I also want to thank judges (even though some of them could not attend this year) like Tom Evnen, Max Stevens, Greg Miaskiewicz, Stacy Thomas, Tommy Clancy, Joey Seiler, Jon Cruz and Jake Gelfand, who, among other things, have shared my vision for what debate rounds should be and how they can be improved. Even though I am ostensibly the responsible party for orchestrating this event, it is only with the support of the above individuals, and many others, that this has all become possible. So, Thanks :)
Posted from: 160.39.247.221
April 4th, 2005 09:34
regardless of their skills, both alex and jon are very fun to play poker with
Posted from: 68.117.47.31
April 4th, 2005 10:23
fun=profitable.
word.
Posted from: 66.15.175.130
April 4th, 2005 12:17
random comments:
1) brown power strikes again. it was hella indian at the cbi in the semis. congrats to adwait and hirsh.
2) i see another apple valley debater (katie) has been bitten by the poker bug. more professional poker players will come from a.v. than any other school ever.
Posted from: 67.9.103.228
April 4th, 2005 14:48
congrats to hirsh and adwait!!!
anyone want to predict an all-brown toc final??
Posted from: 24.47.35.19
April 4th, 2005 15:55
Can someone please describe the final round?
Posted from: 69.203.144.21
April 4th, 2005 16:19
Hirsh ran an aff case defining church as Christian Scientism. Adwait threw pies at him, which only Navot found funny. They both quoted Zizek.
Posted from: 24.6.44.161
April 5th, 2005 12:24
Congratulations to Adwait on winning the tournament–not dropping a ballot is beyond impressing.
Also, congratulations to Fabien and Hirsh on once again making OHSODEF proud. Too bad I couldn’t make it–I was in Europe.
Posted from: 128.111.95.116
April 5th, 2005 12:53
The Global Pastry Movement is making its way into debate.
Pie-ing is the best way to show frustration with the dominant system
Pranks such as the pie act as a unique form of social criticism
The idea that we exclude the target is wrong
Post round discussions will create a snowball effect to bring people into our movement
You do not create the change within the community, our act within the cracks of traditional debate and our subversion through pieing them is better. We are real world change, we solve better.
This is a unique opportunity within this round
Their arguments written on the board (that Kansas cannot stop the inevitable) prove they are the dominant, pre-round barking is also a form of intimidation.
Posted from: 24.191.68.142
April 5th, 2005 16:10
mmmm snowball effect
Posted from: 24.191.68.142
April 5th, 2005 16:11
mmmm snowball effect