Clements Wins 1st Place Sweepstakes

19 TFA State Qualifications

The Clements Academic Speech Team earned the first place sweepstakes award at the Westside/Harmony Tournament December 6 and 7 where twenty-four schools competed. Of the seventeen students competing in individual events, six students advanced to the final rounds of extemporaneous speaking. Five students advanced to the final round of original oratory. Seventy-four students competed in debate and team members took the top speaker award in each division. In the championship division, team members placed first and third in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and second and third in public forum debate. In the novice division, the LD debate team totally eliminated all other competition by the first elimination round. Ten ninth grade students remained undefeated through all four preliminary rounds. Thus, they earned the first, second, and third place trophies. In public forum debate the novice division finished third. Another novice team member advanced to the final round of championship congressional debate. The team has now won its fourth sweepstakes award this semester. It received first at the Bellaire Tournament and second at Elkins and Katy-Taylor Tournaments. Texas Forensic Association State Qualifiers to Date* Romic Aevaz Mohammad Asif James Diao Rebecca Gelfer Steven Jiang Linh Thoai Le Uddhav Marwaha Matthew Mutammara Jacob Ruiz Xueyue (Diane) Sun Arjun Talpallikar Felix Tan Austin Tang Joshua Yang domestic and foreign extemporaneous speaking public forum debate (with Arjun) domestic extemp and Lincoln-Douglas debate LD debate foreign extemp LD debate LD debate LD debate LD debate Congressional Debate, domestic extemp, and foreign extemp foreign extemp and PF debate (with Mohammad) LD debate domestic extemp and PF debate (with Joshua) domestic extemp and PF debate (with Austin)

*Students must earn a total of 12 points in each event. Earning first place at a single tournament results in a maximum of 8 points. The number of state points awarded depends on the number of students competing in the event and placement in the elimination rounds. There is a scale for individual events, one for LD and PF debate, and another for congressional debate.

Clements Wins 1st Place Sweepstakes

19 TFA State Qualifications
WESTSIDE-HARMONY TOURNAMENT FINALISTS Individual Events Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking Finalists Xueyue (Diane) Sun (2nd) Shomik Verma (4th) Vincent Liu (5th) Prithvi Prakash (6th) Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking Finalists Joshua Yang (2nd) Arjun Talpallikar (3rd) Original Oratory Finalists Ashley Chen (1st) Mohammad Asif (4th) Amy Ma (5th) Novice Original Oratory Finalists Snehal Bhamare (7th) Emily Wang (8th) Congressional Debate Of the 31 competitors in the championship division: Finalist Emma Eyvazian Lincoln-Douglas Debate Of the 51 competitors in championship division: 1st Place Kevin Zhang 3rd Place Emily Zhuang Top 8 Vincent Liu Matthew Mutammara Felix Tan ( also top speaker) Edward Metelitsa Arpam Dutta Top 16 Victor Fu Ethan Lau

Clements Wins 1st Place Sweepstakes

19 TFA State Qualifications
Of the 38 competitors in the novice division, ten students won all four preliminary rounds and prevented all non-Clements competitors from moving to a quarter final round of the top eight. Placement of Clements students was decided by a consideration of speaker points earned. 1Ali Zaidi (top speaker award) 2Rahim Malik 3Nandan Marwaha 4Jefferson Ren 5Brittny Efendy 6Saif Khan 7Michael Rosario 8Srivats Srinivasan 9Amith Chivukula 10Matthew Milad Public Forum Debate Of the 26 competitors in the championship division: 2nd Place Uddhav Marwaha and Jacob Ruiz 3rd Place Mohammad Asif and Arjun Talpallikar Ishaan Kurji and Alishan Noorani Top 8 Romic Aevaz and Michelle Ming Alex Mao and Samyukta Singh Austin Tang and Joshua Yang Top Speaker Sharon Mathew Of the 24 competitors in the novice division: 3rd Place Devisha Giga and Urvi Patel Top 8 Hamzah Ansari and Yash Bindal Varsha Varghese and Lucia Zhang Top Speaker Gaurav Gomber