January/February Bid Recap: Riverdale, St. John’s, Northland Christian, Elkins, Ethos, and Team Charlotte Win Big; Ransom Everglades, Coppell, American Heritage, TAG Earn Bids

Cavalier Invitational at Durham Academy

In the final round, Northland Christian Red debated on the proposition against Ransom Everglades Raiders on the opposition. On a 2-1 decision, Northland Christian won the round. Congratulations to Northland Christian’s Kate VanWormer, Margo Meaney, Aiden Buchanan, Paige Bryant, and LaRya Prince for winning the tournament. Congratulations to Ransome Everglades’s Luisa Duarte, Nick Torres, Mateo Delgado, and Eli Tomassetti for receiving the other bids.

The top 10 speakers were as follows:

1. Mason Csantaveri – Team Charlotte

2. Lucy Chong – Trinity Prep

3. Alejandro Castillo – Trinity Prep

4. Luisa Duarte – Ransom Everglades

5. Sophia Scheinberg – Trinity Prep

6. Jiya Jolly – Isidore Newman

7. Nathan James – Trinity Prep

8. Divija Rao – Charlotte Latin

9. Aiden Buchanan – Northland Christian

10. Alison Om – Cuthbertson/NC

Full results can be found here.

Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire

In the final round, Coppell Andromeda debated on the proposition against Elkins Excalibur on the opposition. On a 2-1 decision, Elkins won the round. Congratulations to Elkins’s Dhanuj Paladugu, Sunny Chandrasekhar, Aryan Goel, and Sam Sajo for winning the tournament. Congratulations to Coppell’s Anjana Boppana, Ananya Nair, Safiya Azam, and Sivaank Pothukoochi for receiving the other bids.

The top 10 speakers were as follows:

1. Tim Csallner – Greenhill

2. Sivaank Pothukoochi – Coppell

3. Aman Pal – Coppell 9th

4. Amy Huang – Southlake Carroll

5. Jacob Tamrat – East Ridge

6. Iniya Nandakumar – Coppell

7. Cindy Chou – Greenhill

8. Sophia Wang – Greenhill

9. Arjun Vasan – Southlake Carroll

10. Arnav Tomer – Southlake Carroll

Full results can be found here.

MOUNT VERNON Invitational

The tournament concluded with co-champions. Congratulations to St. John's’s Leetyan Chen, Gayatri Konduri, and Arin Kumar, and American Heritage’s Juley Guan, Ian Chen, Christian Pierre, Lucas Calderon, and Archith Venkat for their outstanding performance and bid finishes.

The top 10 speakers were as follows:

1. Rhea Farhan – Blake

2. Ally DeHope – Gig Harbor

3. Neilson Chien – Carlmont

4. Leetyan Chen – St John's

5. Sanvi Budideti – Blake

6. Mason Erbini – Crown Point

7. Gayatri Konduri – St John's

8. Sophia Hong – Newport

9. Krisha Pillai – Blake

10. Lucas Calderon – American Heritage Broward

Full results can be found here.

40th Annual Stanford Invitational

In the final round, Texas SMKM debated on the proposition against Ethos ZSCJ on the opposition. On a 2-1 decision, Ethos won the round. Congratulations to Ethos’s Qinrong Valeria Zhao, Anyue(Ema) Sun, Bella Cai, and Chloe Jiang for winning the tournament. Congratulations to Texas’s Sonali Sevak, Natalie Mathews, Gayatri Konduri, and Margo Meaney for receiving the other bids.

The top 10 speakers were as follows:

1. Adrian Chan – Phillips Exeter

2. Amanat Narwal – Mount Vernon

3. Brian Deng – Ethos

4. Brooke Gemechu – NSDA Team USA

5. Aaron Tian – NSDA Team USA

6. Margo Meaney – Texas

7. Gayatri Konduri – Texas

8. Divya Beeram – NSDA Team USA

9. Adhiraj Johar – AugLi

10. Sivaank Pothukoochi – Texas

Full results can be found here.

Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament (In-Person)

In the final round, Riverdale Falcons debated on the proposition against TAG Amethyst on the opposition. On a 2-1 decision, Riverdale won the round. Congratulations to Riverdale’s Alice Goldberg, Madison Wu, Phillip Hyun, and Grant Henry for winning the tournament. Congratulations to TAG’s Terrion Morrow, Sonali Sevak, and Jimin Yoo for receiving the other bids.

The top 10 speakers were as follows:

1. Lily Vollbrecht – NSDA Development Team USA

2. Natalie Mathews – Hendrickson

3. Madison Wu – Riverdale Country

4. Josephina Qiu – Greenhill

5. Rhea Farhan – Blake

6. Hannah Bubb – NSDA Development Team USA

7. Nathan Dsilva – NSDA Development Team USA

8. Grant Henry – Riverdale Country

9. Ethan Bradley – Palo Alto

10. Aanika Gadia – Blake

Full results can be found here.

Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament (Online)

In the final round, Team Charlotte Oxblood debated on the proposition against SpeechCraft CFW on the opposition. On a 3-0 decision, Team Charlotte won the round. Congratulations to Team Charlotte’s Mason Csantaveri, Jackson Willis, Ginevra Voltolina, Evan Horner, and Joseph Holland for winning the tournament. Congratulations to SpeechCraft’s Lucas Chen, Angela Fu, and Jia Yi (Dora) Wang for receiving the other bids.

The top 10 speakers were as follows:

1. Anaya Deshmukh – Ivy Spires

2. Aadya Kanchan – AugLi

3. Jessica Zhi – Socratico

4. Riyan Bajaj – AugLi

5. Angela Fu – SpeechCraft

6. Satvik Avadhanam – Coppell

7. Virginia Bouknight – Myers Park

8. Jia Yi (Dora) Wang – SpeechCraft

9. Xiaowei (Nicole) Liu – Socratico

10. Kavya Chava – Hockaday

Full results can be found here.

Alumni Shoutouts

Southlake Carroll Dragon Faire

Finalists

Anjana Boppana (‘23), Ananya Nair (‘23 & ‘25), Safiya Azam (‘23-’25), Sivaank Pothukoochi (‘23, 2nd Speaker)

Quarterfinalists

Charvi Manem (‘25), Emma Zhao (‘24-’25), Bhargav Narayanan (‘24), Iniya Nandakumar (‘24, 6th Speaker), Jayanth Yamunan (‘23)

Octofinalists

Kathleen Jiang (‘25), Parshva Jain (‘25), Alok Desai (‘25), Arjun Vasan (‘25, 9th Speaker), Arnav Tomer (‘25), Amy Yan (‘25)

Stanford

Anushka Velala (‘25, Semis), Sivaank (‘23, Semis, 10th Speaker)

Harvard

Peyton Lin (‘25, Semis), Evie Phillips & Gabriella Buhl (‘25, Octas)