Matt Aks Wins Great Midwestern Novice Championship
Iowa City West’s Eleventh Annual Great Midwestern Novice Championships ended with a Northeast showdown: Scarsdale’s Matt Aks faced Bishop Guertin’s Sumi Sinha in the final round. On a 5-2 decision, Matt defeated Sumi to claim the tournament title. Congratulations to both debaters!
Matt is coached by Joe Vaughan. Sumi is coached by Maureen DeBlasio and Bruce Miller.
Full results follow, courtesy of Allison Huberlie.
QUARTERS
Bishop Guertin SS def. St. Louis Park CT (Catherine Tarsney)
2-1 (John Lynch, Weinhold, *Ernie Rose)
Scarsdale MA def. Highland Park [MN] NO (Nat Olson)
3-0 (Josh Neally, Allison Huberlie, Jennifer Medina)
Scarsdale SB def. Hopkins KA (Kristen Allison)
3-0 (Fred Robertson, Stu Campbell, Kate Rice)
St. Louis Park JS def. Westside JZ (Justin Zyla)
2-1 (Loren Eastlund, Torson, *Jenn Larson)
SEMIS
Scarsdale MA def. St. Louis Park JS (Julien Switala)
5-0 (Kate Rice, Torson, Robertson, Allison Huberlie, Josh Neally)
Bishop Guertin SS def. Scarsdale SB (Shrenil Bhansali)
4-1 (Jenn Larson, Loren Eastlund, Ernie Rose, Julia Kamenetsky, *John Lynch)
FINALS
Scarsdale MA def. Bishop Guertin SS (Sumi Sinha)
5-2 (*Jenn Larson, Loren Eastlund, Ernie Rose, *Elaine Robertson, Julia Kamenetsky, John Lynch, Katie Rice)
CHAMPION
Scarsdale MA (Matt Aks)
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Posted from: 207.172.73.161
April 9th, 2005 19:37
Congrats to Shrenil, Sumi, and Matt(who I’ve never actually met but have heard lots about). Bah Shrenil we still have to face eachother sometime, and Evan wants a piece of you too ‘_’.
Posted from: 68.198.144.175
April 9th, 2005 19:51
!!!
major congrats are due to Matt and Shrenil-simply amazing.
Let me just say, I was the first to call Scarsdale closeout, and I was only 2 ballots away…way to go you guys!
Posted from: 24.62.80.112
April 9th, 2005 19:59
The round I am interested in is Sumi vs. Shrenil. What happened??? WHo affirmed and who negated? Why did Shrenil lsoe? How could he lose? GRRRRR. Great job to everyone by the way. Congratulations to Matt and Sumi, and certainly congratulations to my main man Shrenil. You gave it a great run.
Posted from: 207.172.84.59
April 9th, 2005 20:37
Huge congratulations to Matt Aks, who is not only the best sophomore I’ve debated this year, but also an incredibly nice person.
Posted from: 63.254.131.211
April 9th, 2005 20:44
Shrenil lost because he wasn’t the better debater in that round. :)
Every round I saw this weekend was really good. Congrats to all the competitors.
Posted from: 68.198.156.109
April 9th, 2005 20:45
Congrats to Shrenil and Matt. Way to go guys, way to go!
Posted from: 63.254.131.211
April 9th, 2005 20:45
And it was elaine on the finals-fred will live to squirrel another day!
Posted from: 64.12.116.203
April 9th, 2005 21:38
matt and shrenil….
sweeeeeet! you guys are awesome… bring love and pride to scars.
Posted from: 144.62.202.74
April 9th, 2005 21:39
Also, I thought I voted for Scarsdale. What?
Posted from: 162.84.209.17
April 9th, 2005 21:55
A hearty congrats to Shrenil and Aks, whose hours upon hours of hard work have clearly paid off. It’s great to see you finish up the year with such sucess; nice job, guys!
Posted from: 205.188.116.10
April 9th, 2005 22:26
Good job everyone!!! Great Tournament.
Posted from: 64.12.116.203
April 10th, 2005 06:39
First, to answer your question, Craig, Sumi affirmed and Shrenil negated in their semis round. From all I hear it was a good and close round (I was judging the other semis round).
But overall, I have to say I had a very good time judging this weekend-I saw some very impressive novices.
Congrats to all!
Posted from: 64.12.116.203
April 10th, 2005 06:40
First, to answer your question, Craig, Sumi affirmed and Shrenil negated in their semis round. From all I hear it was a good and close round (I was judging the other semis round).
But overall, I have to say I had a very good time judging this weekend-I saw some very impressive novices.
Congrats to all!
Posted from: 68.198.158.148
April 10th, 2005 06:54
Yay for Shrenil and Matt!!!!!!
Posted from: 12.217.243.141
April 10th, 2005 07:36
honestly craig, i don’t know how i beat Shrenil. i think it was my breast cancer argument :) i also ran
stuff about ppl w/ brown toenails, cows are disgusting and btw, LD no longer needs warrants (thanks to my judges and opponents for putting up w/ that)
Posted from: 68.237.235.197
April 10th, 2005 09:06
when did ld ever require warrants…you’re in the wrong activity
and btw matt aks is such a fraud novice, that guy has to be like 19 years old!! when i was at his school’s tournament a few months ago, i thought he was one of the judges; but maybe that’s just that casual scarsdale look…
Posted from: 24.44.230.238
April 10th, 2005 14:50
Sumi, are you going to the NFA round robin???
Posted from: 152.163.100.203
April 10th, 2005 17:21
Both Sumi and I were invited to the NFA RR–however, we’re not going. Hope that answers your question.
Posted from: 152.163.100.203
April 10th, 2005 17:22
Both Sumi and I were invited to the NFA RR–however, we’re not going. Hope that answers your question.
Posted from: 24.44.230.238
April 10th, 2005 18:34
That is a shame. Jason and I were looking forward to facing her. Congratulations to everyone once again.
Posted from: 66.31.6.156
April 10th, 2005 19:30
Sumi is absolutely amazing! I love this girl!
Awesome job this weekend. We’re all proud of you!
Scarsdale made a great showing…wow…
WOOHOO for the northeast!
Posted from: 205.188.116.10
April 10th, 2005 20:16
thanks to everyone who has posted kind words. thanks to mr. vaughan and the other scarsdale debaters who helped me out. thanks to steve schappaugh for advice and moral support throughout the tournament.
congrats to sumi and shrenil who both did great.
Posted from: 209.98.146.245
April 10th, 2005 21:48
Congratulations, Julian and Catherine! SLP had an awesome tournament! Also, congrtulations to all the northesterners who made up the other three fourths of sems at the “Great Midwestern Novice Debate Championships.” All three of you were extremely impressive.
Oh, and congrtulations to Nat for being probably the first (erstwhile) LDer to win a round off topicality “Resolved” in novice.
Posted from: 68.198.153.246
April 11th, 2005 12:30
Sumi, don’t be modest, that was your round and you won it fair and square, I have no regrets. To Aks… Great Job, and to everyone else at the tournament. Sumi, its not over though, I will hit you again and I will make sure to properly understand your V.C. lol.
Posted from: 12.216.108.171
April 11th, 2005 13:34
Also a big congrats to Rohit Iragavarapu (sp?) and Sam Hogan of Valley for winnning the Great Midwestern Novice Championship in policy!
Posted from: 65.29.57.111
April 16th, 2005 20:22
Sorry i’m about a week behing the times lol. Awesome job last weekend everybody…that was an intense final round! though I didn’t get to see the round between Sumi and shrenil, i heard it was great,a nd both of you were stellar in your other rounds. Congrats to everyone