33 members of the CA Speech and Debate team traveled to Cambridge Massachusetts over President's Day weekend to compete in the 49th Annual Harvard Forensics Tournament hosted by Harvard University. In Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate CA had 8 competitors reach the elimnation rounds, the most of any school. Rebecca Liu advanced all the way to the final round where she prevailed on a 4-1 decision to be named tournament champion. CA was one ballot away from closing out the tournament as Allen Huang advanced all the way to the semifinal round before being eliminated on a spilt 2-1 decision. Dana Jhong was an ocatafinalist and Sarah Hussain reached the double octafinal round before being eliminated in a coach over. Simren Mehta, Patrick Liu, Chris Gillham, and Anya Lunari were all triple octafinalists. Rebecca was the 2nd Speaker, Allen the 3rd, and Dana was 4th. In Varsity LD, Derek Han reach the Quadruple Octafinal round. The Varsity PF team of Fiona Hu and Ella Zhang were semifinalists in the round robin held before the tournament, and reached the quadruple octafinal round in the tournament proper. Andrew Lim was an octafinalist in Dramatic Interpretation and Callie Chang was an octafinalist in Informative Speaking.
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