Avi Arfin Wins CHSSA State
posted by Jon Cruz on April 26th, 2009
CULVER CITY, Calif. — The 2009 California High School Speech Association State Tournament began with sixty-four debaters and, employing a double-elimination system after the first round, continued until only two debaters were left standing: Palo Alto High School’s Avi Arfin and Monte Vista High School’s Percia Safar.
In the final round, Avi defeated Percia to take the state championship. Congratulations to both debaters!
Avi is coached by Jennie Savage, Daniel Sheehan, and Katherine Brainard; Percia is coached by David Matley and Adam Swaller.
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Posted from: 67.205.7.31
April 24th, 2009 19:56
[...] State (AL) — Awaiting Results CHSSA State (CA) — Awaiting Results NYSFL State (NY) — Awaiting Results Perspectives RR — Finals: [...]
Posted from: 128.135.112.81
April 26th, 2009 12:52
for anyone interested who isn’t at the tournament, i know that semis is:
gordon allen (analy)
avi arfin (palo alto)
percia safar (monte vista)
mike corisani (jame logan) or eric woo (idk)
Posted from: 72.130.134.87
April 26th, 2009 13:02
avi arfin is a g
Posted from: 76.88.22.206
April 26th, 2009 13:12
i agree
Posted from: 75.55.51.100
April 26th, 2009 13:52
seconded
Posted from: 24.7.92.133
April 26th, 2009 15:54
Congrats to Percia. Second year in a row she’s reached late outrounds. This is very tough tournament to consistently do well at.
Posted from: 24.6.158.21
April 26th, 2009 15:57
congrats to Avi and Percia!
Posted from: 99.151.9.87
April 26th, 2009 16:50
Narayan Subramanian/Belinda Tang (Lynbrook) have byed to semis in parli.
Vikram Kanth/Rohit Unni (Lynbrook), are debating in partial quarters in parli as well
Good luck guys!
Posted from: 71.146.69.173
April 26th, 2009 17:00
percia is my hero
Posted from: 24.6.67.121
April 26th, 2009 17:40
Avi’s in finals!
COME ON AVI!
Posted from: 64.244.136.2
April 26th, 2009 18:04
Good luck Avi! CFL represent.
Posted from: 128.135.169.157
April 26th, 2009 18:27
Percia beats Gordon in Semis. Congrats to both. To Percia for her consistent success and to Gordon for making it to semis as a sophomore. Impressive performances for both of them.
Posted from: 72.158.46.202
April 26th, 2009 21:09
Bellarmine closed out policy.
Posted from: 72.130.134.87
April 26th, 2009 22:12
Avi Arfin takes the LD title.
congrats avi
Posted from: 24.6.67.121
April 26th, 2009 22:15
yay avi!
Posted from: 75.25.130.115
April 26th, 2009 22:28
Congrats to Avi on yet another breakout performance and on ensuring yet another CFL v GGSA final round at states.
If my sources are correct, Narayan Subramanian and Belinda Tang are currently debating in parli finals.
Posted from: 75.25.130.115
April 26th, 2009 22:43
the abuv post was me
Posted from: 68.230.73.179
April 26th, 2009 22:44
congrats avi
Posted from: 165.124.139.198
April 26th, 2009 23:37
Team Avi ftw!
Posted from: 99.151.9.87
April 26th, 2009 23:44
And Artem, if my sources are correct,
Narayan and Belinda just won the parli state championship!
Congrats guys! A better team could not have won!
Narayan, hopefully this success carries over to the TOC soon =)
(and Artem, we have the same sources)
Posted from: 76.21.1.59
April 27th, 2009 00:28
According to my source, Bellarmine has captured the state title for the fourth straight time. No info on 2nd or third. Bell parli and pofo made it to sems.
Posted from: 99.151.9.87
April 27th, 2009 01:08
Lynbrook wins division A sweepstakes
Posted from: 67.103.71.112
April 27th, 2009 03:24
San Marino wins division AA sweekstakes
Posted from: 206.53.144.60
April 27th, 2009 08:47
Congratulations avi! I couldn’t be happier for a nicer and more talented guy than avi arfin. Best of luck next year.
Posted from: 209.181.228.22
April 27th, 2009 14:00
congrats avi
Posted from: 24.6.208.2
April 27th, 2009 16:06
BAY AREA REP.
nice job avi with the win
and narayan and belinda
so which school won states?
Posted from: 71.104.147.161
April 27th, 2009 18:23
Avi is the master of LD and political correctness
Posted from: 71.139.5.165
April 27th, 2009 18:33
Avi is also coached by Katherine Brainard, formerly of Niskayuna HS.
Posted from: 74.105.160.141
April 27th, 2009 18:46
yeee avi!
Posted from: 24.161.174.206
April 27th, 2009 19:09
major congrats to avi! doing well at state is no easy task
Posted from: 69.110.39.227
April 27th, 2009 19:54
26: “so which school won states?”
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1. Bellarmine College Prep (143 points)
2. James Logan High (103 points)
3. Leland High (90 points)
Can’t say I’m too surprised…
Posted from: 68.164.95.57
April 27th, 2009 20:01
Congrats to Avi on the win. You’re hard work has paid off greatly, im glad you have this win under your belt. Watch out for this one guys.
congrats also to the lynbrook team of narayan and belinda for winning parli, way to rep the hedge guys. hopefully this momentum carries on for narayan at the tokes
great weekend for the nor cal hedge
Posted from: 98.14.255.196
April 27th, 2009 21:33
CONGRATULATIONS, AVI!!! Avi is unquestionably one of the nicest and hardest working debaters competing today. This is a richly deserved honor. Special shout out to the entire supremely awesome Palo Alto coaching staff: Jennie, Daniel, and Katherine! (My apologies to Katherine, I can’t believe I accidentally omitted you from the coaching credits!)
Posted from: 71.141.109.147
April 27th, 2009 22:17
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Avilicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted from: 75.25.160.95
April 27th, 2009 23:25
Grats Avi!!!!!
Posted from: 76.212.195.144
April 28th, 2009 00:23
Congrats Avi! Thanks for an awesome quarters round!
Posted from: 66.91.82.161
April 28th, 2009 02:10
congratulations avi!
it feels cool to have been in a lab with apparently the best debater in America’s biggest state.
Posted from: 216.100.89.28
April 28th, 2009 14:35
Great Tourney and tough competition this year. Congratz to all.
Posted from: 76.102.49.67
April 28th, 2009 20:32
I want to extend a huge congratulations to Percia. That was an incredibly close round, and one of the most substantive, informative rounds I’ve had on the topic.
Also, thanks to everyone else in attendance for making it a really fun and competitive tournament. And thanks to my teammates and coaches-you guys are an awesome support system.
FYI, Catterton’s post is wrong. I don’t remember exactly, but sems was slightly different.
Posted from: 71.130.9.10
April 28th, 2009 20:54
In response to comment #2 by catterton:
Unfortunately, Eric Wu (San Marino) did not make it to the semifinals round. He dropped during prelims. ):
Congrats to Avi and basically anyone who even made it to the CHSSA tournament. You guys deserve it.
Posted from: 69.230.64.144
April 29th, 2009 21:20
Think he meant Kevin Fu. XD
Posted from: 24.6.249.43
April 29th, 2009 23:57
Congrats avi!!!
Posted from: 207.80.127.240
April 30th, 2009 15:51
Congratulations from all of us at Strake Jesuit College Prep in Houston! Y’all are amazing. Keep up the great work!
Posted from: 64.105.35.191
April 30th, 2009 20:08
Congrats Avi on a well deserved win! Good job and way to represent the CFL.
And a major shout out to the policy teams of Ani Deshmukh-Arjun Srinivasan and Will Rafey-Sagar Vijay for closing out policy for Bellarmine. Now go own it up at TOC.
Posted from: 68.192.28.123
May 15th, 2009 01:08
Looks exactly like you Avi.
I’m proud of ya, haha.