Ben Lewis Wins Inaugural Harvard Round Robin

Bronx Science Wins Policy; Durham Takes PF

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Harvard Round Robin is one of the oldest and most prestigious round robins in policy debate. Now, for the first time, there is also competition in Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum

The Lincoln-Douglas debate round robin featured a final round between Greenhill School’s Tanya Thanawalla and Walt Whitman High School’s Ben Lewis. On a 4-1 decision — Matt Wilson, Alex Zhang, Max Stevens, and Avi Jayaraman made up the majority, while Chris Castillo dissented — Ben defeated Tanya to win the title. Congratulations to both!

The policy debate round robin final round featured the Bronx High School of Science’s Andrew Markoff and Zack Elias and Glenbrook South High School’s Will Thibeau and Richard Day. On a 2-1 decision, Bronx Science defeated Glenbrook South to win the championship. Congratulations to both teams!

The Durham Academy team of Robert Kindman and Josh Zoffer and the Walt Whitman High School team of Aaron Schifrin and Itai Farhi were the finalists in the Public Forum round robin. Durham ultimately defeated Walt Whitman on a 4-1 decision to take the round robin. Congratulations to all four debaters!

All three round robins took place on the Thursday and Friday prior to the tournament.

By tradition, each division has student tournament directors to assist the Harvard Debate Council. The student tournament directors for the inaugural Lincoln-Douglas debate round robin were Coulter King (formerly of Regis High School) and Alex Zhang (formerly of Pace Academy).

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE

The Altamont School (AL) – Sasha Arijanto
Battle Ground Academy (TN) – Garrett Jackson
Berkeley Carroll School (NY) – Dylan Scher
The Blake School (MN) – Erik Legried
The Bronx High School of Science (NY) – Matt Ross
Greenhill School (TX) – Tanya Thanawalla
Harvard-Westlake School (CA) – Jake Sonnenberg
Iowa City West High School (IA) – Graham Tierney
Northland Christian School (TX) – Josh Roberts
Perkiomen Valley High School (PA) – Karlyn Gorski
Scarsdale High School (NY) – Eric Thurm
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory School (TX) – Nick Lassus
Walt Whitman High School (MD) – Ben Lewis
Walt Whitman High School (MD) – Perry Green

POLICY DEBATE

The Bronx High School of Science (NY) — Andrew Markoff & Zack Elias
Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart (FL) — Anna Dimitrijevic & Helen Gomez
Chattahoochee High School (GA) — Megan Cambre & Kaavya Ramesh
College Preparatory School (CA) — Vinay Pai & Tatsuro Yamamura
Damien High School (CA) — Reid Ehrlich-Quinn & Pablo Gannon
Georgetown Day School (GA) — Rebecca Rothfeld & Isaac Stanley-Becker
Glenbrook North High School (IL) — Flynn Makuch & Vinay Sridharan
Glenbrook South High School (IL) — Richard Day & Will Thibeau
Grapevine High School (TX) — Jacob Quinn & Amy Schade
Lexington High School (MA) — Tyler Engler & Arjun Vellayappan
McDonogh School (MD) — Patrick Butler & Alex Resar
Westminster Schools (GA) Ellis Allen & Daniel Taylor
Whitney Young High School (IL) — Misael Gonzalez & Kevin Hirn
Woodward Academy (GA) — Matthew Pesce & Max Plithides
First Alternate: Westlake High School (TX) — John Baker & David Mullins

PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE

American Heritage School (FL) — Matthias Ng & Alvaro Cuba
Brophy College Preparatory School (AZ) — Scott Franz & Nicholas Petsas
Chaparral High School (AZ) — Stefani Jones & Yassamin Ansari
Durham Academy (NC) — Robert Kindman & Josh Zoffer
Eagan High School (MN) — Iaan Reynolds & Rachel Markon
Fort Lauderdale High School (FL) — Matthew Gold & Czar Bernstein
Hawken School (OH) — Ozan Cubukcu & Michael Gwin
Lake Highland Preparatory School (FL) — Hal Shimkoski & Shannen Bazzi
Manchester Essex Regional High School (MA) — Jack Kelly & Matt Hoyle
New Trier High School (IL) — Joe Eichenbaum & David Walchak
Overland High School (CO) — Paola Segura & Dean Magnuson
Regis High School (NY) — Mark Andriola & Joseph Eddy
Regis High School (NY) — Patrick Cooney & John O’Brien
Timber Creek High School (FL) — Jomayra Herrera & Nancy Zanaty
Walt Whitman High School (MD) — Aaron Schifrin & Itai Farhi
Walt Whitman High School (MD) — Bruno Vellosso & Richard Scordato

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