Scott Brainard is New York State Champion
Antoinette Fuoto and Scott Brainard
NYSFL state finalists Antoinette Fuoto and Scott Brainard
The annual state championship tournament of the New York State Forensic League has come to a close at the Shenendehowa Central School complex in Clifton Park. After two days of competition in the varsity field, two debaters remained standing: Scott Brainard of Niskayuna and Antoinette Fuoto of Monticello. On a 5-0 decision, Scott defeated Annie to claim the state title. Congratulations to both!
Scott is coached by Annemarie Rizzo and Loralynne Krobetzky. Annie is coached by Rose Joyce-Turner.
Congratulations are also in order for the finalists in the junior varsity and novice categories! In J.V. (”intermediate”), Pat Fallon of Regis defeated Claire Bulger of Stuyvesant on a 4-1 decision. In the novice division, Sylvia Abdullah of Stuyvesant defeated Joanna Schlingbaum of Half Hollow Hills East, also on a 4-1 decision.
Sylvia and Claire are coached by Julie Sheinman. Pat is coached by Eric DiMichele. Joanna is coached by Linda Martucci.
Full results for J.V. and novice are forthcoming. Congratulations to all!
BIG THIRTY-TWO
(1) CHA 1502 Chaminade RD vs. (2) PPS 1512 Poly Prep DN (Daniel Newman) (Raggi-Denton)
(3) REG 1547 Regis DE vs. (20) GNS 1563 Great Neck South MG (Max Glasser) (Kornblum)
(4) NSK 1565 Niskayuna SB vs. (16) COL 1530 Collegiate DL (Daniel Lee) (Colonna)
(5) REG 1550 Regis JL vs. (19) CHA 1504 ST (Sean Tierney) (”Collegiate 2″)
(6) STY 1527 Stuyvesant LT vs. (18) ALB 1522 Albany BC (Bradley Cramer) (Bates)
(15) NSK 1566 Niskayuna BZ vs. (7) REG 1552 Regis NM (Nilo Mihatov) (Goldberg)
(8) PPS 1507 Poly Prep KB vs. (13) CHA 1503 Chaminade TD (Thomas DeFranco) (Marrero)
(17) REG 1551 Regis EM vs. (9) ROS 1564 Roslyn PA (Payvand Adhout) (Lim)
(10) BXS 1533 Bronx Science HR vs. (12) MCH 1518 Monticello AF (Antoinette Fuoto) (Cummins)
(14) REG 1553 Regis AN vs. (11) BXS 1532 Bronx Science PP (Peter Phillips) (Prohaska)
(21) HHE 1545 Half Hollow Hills East JP vs. (32) CHA 1506 Chaminade MSm (Matt Smith) (Berringer)
(30) REG 1548 Regis DJ vs. (22) HGH 1537 Horace Greeley JH (Jessica Hartman) (Wheeler)
(31) STY 1525 Stuyvesant KB vs. (23) CHA 1505 Chaminade MS (Matt Sharp) (Foster)
(29) ALB 1523 Albany SS vs. (24) HEN 1541 Hendrick Hudson EV (Erin Vehstedt) (Nelson)
(25) HHE 1544 Half Hollow Hills East JS vs. (28) MCH 1519 Monticello HS (Harrison Siegel) (”Collegiate 1″)
(26) HHE 1453 Half Hollow Hills East KS vs. (27) REG 1554 Regis MP (Martin Paul) (Blaine)
OCTAS (adjusted seeds)
(1) CHA 1502 Chaminade RD over (16) CHA 1505 Chaminade MS (Matthew Sharp)
(2) NSK 1565 Niskayuna SB def. (15) REG 1552 Regis NM (Nino Mihatov)
(Morrison, Stone, Kornblum)
(3) PPS 1507 Poly Prep KB def. (14) HHE 1545 Half Hollows JP (Josh Parker)
(Colonna, Raggi, Wheeler)
(4) STY 1527 Stuyvesant LT def. (13) BXS 1533 Bronx Science HR (Hannah Rothman)
(Aoyama, G Williams, Pevzner)
(5) MCH 1518 Monticello AF def. (12) ROS 1564 Roslyn PA (Payvand Adhout)
(Theodore, Bolger, Bates)
(6) REG 1547 Regis DE def. (11) PPS 1512 Poly Prep DN (Daniel Newman)
(Nelson, Lim, M. Foster)
(10) REG 1551 Regis EM over (7) REG 1550 Regis JL (James Lucarelli)
(9) NSK 1566 Niskayuna BZ def. (8) REG 1553 Regis AN (Andrew Nesi)
(Petraro, Blaine, Gruttadauria)
QUARTERS
(1) CHA 1502 Chaminade RD def. (9) NSK 1566 Niskayuna BZ (Boyang Zhou)
(Marra, Laudin, S. Foster)
(2) NSK 1565 Niskayuna SB def. (10) REG 1551 Regis EM (Emmet McDermott)
(Nerko, Torpy, Uliano)
(3) PPS 1507 Poly Prep KB def. (6) REG 1547 Regis DE (Doug Eickman)
(Hoyzaionova, Cruz, Benintendi)
(5) MCH 1518 Monticello AF def. (4) STY 1527 Stuyvesant LT (Lauren Thomas)
(Vaughan, Denton, Martucci)
SEMIS
(5) MCH 1518 Monticello AF def. (1) CHA 1502 Chaminade RD (Rahul D’Sa)
(Glendinning, D. Williams, Hartman)
(2) NSK 1565 Niskayuna SB def. (3) PPS 1507 Poly Prep KB (Kyle Bailey)
(Luccarelli, Foster, Columbo)
FINALS
(2) NSK 1565 Niskayuna SB def. (5) MCH 1518 Monticello AF (Antoinette Fuoto)
5-0 (Blenkinsopp, Gazzola, S. Porter, Campagnuolo, Hoyzaionova)
STATE CHAMPION
(4) NSK 1565 Niskayuna SB (Scott Brainard)
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Posted from: 207.172.150.102
April 16th, 2005 20:59
Congratulations, Scott!
Posted from: 136.242.122.83
April 16th, 2005 21:16
<3 Brainard
Posted from: 24.195.0.148
April 16th, 2005 21:19
Congrats Scottyyy :)
Posted from: 138.16.16.206
April 16th, 2005 21:20
:-)
Posted from: 67.101.158.27
April 16th, 2005 21:21
congrats hannah and peter and the rest of bronx sci! woot!
Posted from: 69.203.97.50
April 16th, 2005 21:26
Congrats to bronx science!, hannah, peter, melanie, and mikael and also everyone who qualified good job!
Posted from: 69.249.50.38
April 16th, 2005 21:26
uhh…bonan zhou??
Posted from: 24.187.143.156
April 16th, 2005 21:27
Awesome job to Rahul, and to Little D’sa (rahuls sister for getting to semis in novice states). Also awesome job to Scott
Posted from: 131.229.177.243
April 16th, 2005 22:01
Great job Scott!! Congrats.
Congrats also to Bronx Sci for the good showing.
(And Congrats to Annie, too!) :-)
Posted from: 24.6.81.188
April 16th, 2005 23:27
DUDE someone’s last name is Blenkinsopp! That excites me because Tuppence takes the moniker of Mrs. Blenkensop when going undercover in Agatha Christie’s novel “N or M?”
Actually, come to think of it, the name Hoyzaionova is much cooler.
Anyways.
Congrats to Scott and Annie!
Posted from: 24.47.175.19
April 17th, 2005 08:20
Half Hollow Hills East-
Novice-
Harris Rovinsky gets to Double Octos.
Joanna Sclingbaum drops finals 3-2.
Amanda Sabele gets to octafinals.
JV-
George Leontiv gets to octafinals.
I THINK thats everyone, and the right places. Congrats to all. Especially Joanna.
Posted from: 24.47.35.19
April 17th, 2005 08:42
Jon - switch the varsity semis judging panels around. Rahul had the three judges from the other semis.
Posted from: 24.185.45.181
April 17th, 2005 08:49
Joanna dropped in novice finals on a 4-1.
Also, I dropped to Kyle Bailey in Octofinals.
Congratulations to everyone on all three levels who did well.
Posted from: 72.11.219.171
April 17th, 2005 10:07
wow you’re so modest antoinette, not to mention an awesome debater!
Posted from: 68.199.80.168
April 17th, 2005 10:59
Yay Annie!
Oh yeah, and props to that Scott kid too ;)
Posted from: 68.85.215.204
April 17th, 2005 13:52
Does this tournament not use brackets in elims? Some of these seed matchups don’t seem possible
Posted from: 128.59.252.252
April 17th, 2005 14:20
Ask DiMichele about that.
Posted from: 162.84.240.201
April 17th, 2005 14:59
no its just that the big thirtytwo is run like a round five with pairings and not like an outround. The system makes just about as much sense as a lot of the judge’s decisions did.
Posted from: 24.47.175.19
April 17th, 2005 15:45
Jacob- if you’re refering to the octas round that peter dropped, that made me laugh out loud. i watched that round- he definately picked up. but he didnt.
Posted from: 68.85.215.204
April 17th, 2005 15:47
anything modeled after turn-of-the-century Villiger should be strongly reconsidered on that basis alone.
Even if the round 5/Big 32 doesn’t parallel a doubles round…why would the octos seedings be so out of whack?
Posted from: 24.190.160.100
April 17th, 2005 16:18
No, Round 5 doesn’t follow the same parings as out rounds. It’s a power protect in brackets, with school and opponent constraints. It would be the same as runnung a fifth round with everyone still in.
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 17th, 2005 17:12
I followed the seedings available from the results packet, which were pre-Big 32 seedings. I assume seeds were reset after that, but we weren’t given the new list of seeds.
Posted from: 152.163.100.203
April 17th, 2005 17:30
Congrats to Melanie who consistently DOMINATES novice LD and I’m sure will continue to do so next year! Sarah, Michael, and Marina *props* for qualifying and legitimizing my 1st VBD post.
The Berkeley Carroll novices are absolutely amazing! Congratulations to Peter Damrosch and the rest of their novice team!
Posted from: 70.23.154.119
April 17th, 2005 18:14
Congrats to Hannah for breaking to Octas!You’ve “affirmed” my faith in the activity for rewarding good debaters ;)
Congrats to the Bronx novices + Mikael for a job well done. Watch out for Melanie Plaza next year. She already is, and will continue to be amazing.
I agree w/ Hannah- after having observed Peter Damrosch in-round, I can say w/ confidence that he’ll be the competition to beat. Congrats.
Posted from: 24.29.141.152
April 17th, 2005 18:58
yea melanie definitly deserved to get a lot farther, i would of loved to hit her in late out rounds as i think it woulda been a great round, haha and of course any credit that BC novices get is due in large part to jacob, and of course cruz is jacob’s coach, and now that cruz coaches bronx sci well lets just say, you can trace every novice debate sucess back to jon if u go far enough lol, and ting ting that pink blouse like dazzled me in round i was like so blinded lol, anyways great tournement, congrates joana on making it to the finals
Posted from: 207.172.73.161
April 17th, 2005 19:33
Hey how did Melanie actually do? I’m not sure if it was mentioned above but I didn’t find it. Yeah, shes beastly, I hit her round 2 at Lakeland and got owned ‘_’;;
Posted from: 70.23.154.119
April 17th, 2005 23:08
Jason~ she cleared to quarters.
i have a feeling i’ve judged you before?
Posted from: 24.44.230.238
April 17th, 2005 23:44
With all the novice debate talk, I fell the need to comment. When I heard who broke, I thought the final round should have been Melanie and Peter. I have faced Melanie before and she was impressive then, and I can only assume she got better. Peter consistently gets great reviews, so I was pretty much going on that. Anyway, the novice field was running rampid with injustices. Three stick out in my mind. The first is Nicole Kata. She has been incredible throughout the entire year and I thought she was in the top 5 of the field. She ended up going 1-3, which I am sure was not justified. Second was the outrounds. As I said, Melanie and Peter should ahve gone farther than they did and from what I hear, that is more than justified. Lastly, Shrenil Bhansali. 33rd place, 2-2. This is perhaps the biggest injustice of them all. Now in my mind, and this may jsut be a bias opinion, he was the number 1 novice at States. I talked to him and he has affirmed my original feeling that he deserved to be at least 3-1. He is state champion in my eyes no matter what. So, to wrap this thing up. Novice semis should have been as such.
(1) Shrenil def. (4) Nicole
(3)Melanie def. (2) Peter
Finals: (1) Shrenil def. (3) Melanie
Posted from: 24.44.230.238
April 17th, 2005 23:45
With all the novice debate talk, I fell the need to comment. When I heard who broke, I thought the final round should have been Melanie and Peter. I have faced Melanie before and she was impressive then, and I can only assume she got better. Peter consistently gets great reviews, so I was pretty much going on that. Anyway, the novice field was running rampid with injustices. Three stick out in my mind. The first is Nicole Kata. She has been incredible throughout the entire year and I thought she was in the top 5 of the field. She ended up going 1-3, which I am sure was not justified. Second was the outrounds. As I said, Melanie and Peter should ahve gone farther than they did and from what I hear, that is more than justified. Lastly, Shrenil Bhansali. 33rd place, 2-2. This is perhaps the biggest injustice of them all. Now in my mind, and this may jsut be a bias opinion, he was the number 1 novice at States. I talked to him and he has affirmed my original feeling that he deserved to be at least 3-1. He is state champion in my eyes no matter what. So, to wrap this thing up. Novice semis should have been as such.
(1) Shrenil def. (4) Nicole
(3)Melanie def. (2) Peter
Finals: (1) Shrenil def. (3) Melanie
Posted from: 207.172.73.161
April 18th, 2005 05:58
“i have a feeling i’ve judged you before?”
sort of, you judged my octas round at Lakeland that my opponent conceded before her 2NR… I remember you as the only judge who actually wrote something on the ballot instead of ‘concession’
Shrenil, you definitely deserved to break at the very least. I’m not going to say that the people who did well at this tournament didn’t deserve to b/c they certainly did, but you definitely should have broken at the bare minimum. Sorry bout the tournament not working out well for you, there’ll be others for you to win. Still need to hit you sometime eh?
Posted from: 24.194.192.145
April 18th, 2005 07:54
Octos results with adjusted seedings from Big 32:
(2) NSK 1565 Niskayuna SB def (15) REG 1552 Regis NM (Nino Mihatov)
3-0 (Morrison, Stone, Kornblum)
(3) PPS 1507 Poly Prep KB def (14) HHE 1545 Half Hollows JP (Josh Parker)
(Colonna, Raggi, Wheeler)
(4) STY 1527 Stuyvesant LT def (13) BXS 1533 Bronx Science HR (Hannah Rothman)
(Aoyama, G Williams, Pevzner)
(5) MCH 1518 Monticello AF def (12) ROS 1564 Roslyn PA (Payvand Adhout)
(Theodore, Bolger, Bates)
(6) REG 1547 Regis DE def (11) PPS 1512 Poly Prep DN (Daniel Newman)
(Nelson, Lim, M. Foster)
(9) NSK 1566 def Niskayuna BZ (8) REG 1553 Regis AN (Andrew Nesi)
2-1 (Petraro, Blaine, *Gruttadauria)
(1) CHA 1502 Chaminade RD over (16) CHA 1505 Chaminade MS (Matthew Sharp)
(10) REG 1551 Regis EM over (7) REG 1550 Regis JL (James Lucarelli)
Posted from: 24.185.45.181
April 18th, 2005 11:49
My octos round was a 201, with Colonna on bottom.
Craig Gilbert says: “With all the novice debate talk, I fell the need to comment. When I heard who broke, I thought the final round should have been Melanie and Peter.” and goes on to speculate who SHOULD have been in finals.
-Craig, while I understand you are trying to compliment extremely deserving debaters who should have done better, it’s not right and offensive to say that those people deserved to be in finals over the debaters who were in finals. I know for a fact that you did not EVER see the novice from my team in finals debate. So, you are totally lacking any basis for comparison. So, while I don’t mind you talking about people who are talented debaters, please avoid speculating who SHOULD have been in finals without ever seeing the all of the finalists debate or even being at the tournament.
Posted from: 24.44.230.238
April 18th, 2005 12:05
I don’t mean it like that. As I said, it is a probably a biased opinion. In fact, it isn’t probably bias, it is. The whole who SHOULD be in semis should not be taken too seriously, but I think that they should have done better than they did. Mainly because I have hear about how each of them went out and recognized that it was unfair. Whether or not they would ahve gone to semis and then finals, I have no idea, but they shouldn’t have gone out the way they did. Shrenil especially. Poor guy, we all feel for him i am sure.
Posted from: 207.172.73.161
April 18th, 2005 15:11
If my post that followed Craig’s earliers made anyone feel the same way, I didn’t mean it like that and I tried to phrase it in such a way that it woudln’t seem like that either. Like I said before I’m not saying the people who did well at this tournament shouldn’t have cuz there certainly did, merely that, in my opinion at least, Shrenil should have broken and for whatever would have happened to have happened.
Posted from: 24.199.81.41
April 18th, 2005 15:42
(1) CHA 1502 Chaminade RD vs. (2) PPS 1512 Poly Prep DN (Daniel Newman) (Raggi-Denton)
(1) CHA 1502 Chaminade RD over (16) CHA 1505 Chaminade MS (Matthew Sharp)
(6) REG 1547 Regis DE def. (11) PPS 1512 Poly Prep DN (Daniel Newman)
(Nelson, Lim, M. Foster)
I don’t understand how Chaminade RD and Poly Prep DN hit each other in Big 32, and both then managed to break to octos…
Posted from: 24.185.45.181
April 18th, 2005 15:58
dl, the big 32 is not an elimination round. After the fourth prelim round, the top 32 competitiors remain in for another prelimination round, power-paired. Then, AFTER the big 32 debaters are re-seeded and elimination rounds begin. So, those two debaters were both still in the top 16 after re-seeding.
Posted from: 24.29.141.152
April 18th, 2005 17:08
yea josh thats fair to call craig on that, but i would like to make a comparaison since i’ve hit both joana and melanie on this resolution, and both rounds were very close. personally i believe that both are excellent debaters, and that both were definitly amoung the top 4 novices i had hit this year. i believe though that melanie is a great debater, and rivals joana in ability, i did not know of the stuy novice who won states, but i can say that a round between melanie and joana in finals would have been a very engaging round, and that i believe melanie deserved that shot at finals against joana (this is with no knowledge of the stuy debater who i am sure deserved to win as well)
Posted from: 24.185.45.181
April 18th, 2005 17:28
Peter- I understand where you’re coming from and I agree with where you’re coming from.
Also, I’m assuming from what I’ve heard about you as a debater, that you’ll be going varsity all next year?
Posted from: 162.84.240.201
April 18th, 2005 17:41
He damn well better be
Posted from: 151.202.83.188
April 19th, 2005 15:37
When do novice seeding results get posted? Also, does anyone know who the novice top speakers were?
Posted from: 24.29.141.152
April 19th, 2005 17:37
ha jacob wouldn’t let me do anything else
Posted from: 24.46.29.106
April 19th, 2005 19:09
Damn straight! Than I get to redeem myself with a win against you.
Posted from: 24.185.45.181
April 19th, 2005 19:53
Josh, the seeding is in the results packet you’re school got.
Speaker awards aren’t given out in LD at states, but I THINK that Joanna Schlingbaum for Hills East was top novice speaker from a quick glance at the results, although I could be wrong.
Posted from: 68.198.153.246
April 20th, 2005 12:42
Hey Craig, thanks for all those comliments, but its all good, I have no regrets. Also, Melanie, I must say I was impressed at your talent, you will be a great threat some day, not that you aren’t already. As for all the debators taht cleared and did well, Congrats!!! Hopefully we will debate soon. Hehe
Posted from: 68.198.153.246
April 20th, 2005 12:42
Hey Craig, thanks for all those compliments, but its all good, I have no regrets. Also, Melanie, I must say I was impressed at your talent, you will be a great threat some day, not that you aren’t already. As for all the debators taht cleared and did well, Congrats!!! Hopefully we will debate soon. Hehe
Posted from: 68.198.153.246
April 20th, 2005 12:42
Hey Craig, thanks for all those compliments, but its all good, I have no regrets. Also, Melanie, I must say I was impressed at your talent, you will be a great threat some day, not that you aren’t already. As for all the debators taht cleared and did well, Congrats!!! Hopefully we will debate soon. Hehe
Posted from: 24.29.141.152
April 20th, 2005 15:15
haha peter, i assume ur the great neck peter, if you were i got a great laugh outta the kinko kontention as we called it
Posted from: 152.163.100.203
April 20th, 2005 16:58
He’s not the only GNS debater who wants to redeem themself with another round against you (im sure your round with peter was a lot closer).
Posted from: 152.163.100.203
April 20th, 2005 16:59
He’s not the only GNS debater who wants to redeem themself with another round against you (im sure your round with peter was a lot closer).
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 21st, 2005 00:11
A major congratulations as well to Sylvia and Joanna, the novice finalists. I judged both in earlier rounds and was very impressed.
I admittedly missed the results of J.V. finals. What were they?
I’ll have results for novice and J.V. up shortly, though we’ll probably need some help filling in a few gaps in terms of specific decisions. (I have all the names, though!)
Posted from: 66.108.190.29
April 21st, 2005 04:49
in JV finals, pat fallon of regis defeated claire bulger of stuyvesant 4-1
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 21st, 2005 07:44
Congratulations, Claire! I knew you were the runner-up, but I wasn’t sure who won the other semis round. Nice job!
Posted from: 24.29.141.152
April 21st, 2005 18:12
yea if GNS novice is jesse from doubles that was a really good round, and i’d love to hit you again, but honestly jesse, do urself a favor, read peter’s democracy promotion case about kinkos, it was well original
Posted from: 152.163.100.203
April 21st, 2005 19:02
will do