Dear Speech and Debate families,
Welcome to the third weekly update of the Stuyvesant Speech & Debate team!
For those who just joined, this newsletter is sent out every Monday/Tuesday with tournament results, important reminders, and other highlights from the team. On our website, you can find all the weekly updates, team photos, tournament schedules, and permission slips/forms. Make sure to bookmark the website—it will be an important resource for this year!
Quarter-Zip Announcement
We are incredibly excited to announce our quarter-zip designs for the 2022-2023 debate season! This year’s color will be burgundy.
Here's a preview:
Please fill out this form BY FEBRUARY 15TH if you would like to order a 2023 Speech & Debate quarter-zip!
You will NOT need to make any payments at this time. Additional information about customization and payments is in the form above. If you fill out the form, you will receive a follow-up email in two weeks that will let you know exactly how much you need to pay.
An outline of the process:
(1) Fill out the above Google Form
(2) Await payment instructions
(3) Quarter-zip order placed
(4) Quarter-zips arrive at the school, where debaters will pick them up
A larger order means that each quarter-zip is more affordable. Please do your best to convince family and friends to don Speech and Debate merch!
Best,
Kikyo Makino-Siller
Quarter-Zip Designer
Team Updates
Policy: In policy debate, with a little over a week left before UPenn, our debaters have been hard at work! We’ve especially focused on preparing for the kritik heavy nature of this season and have started a series of lectures to help the team get a better understanding of the complex theories. This has included Biopower, Anti-blackness, and Orientalism, which we hope they will learn to build into their own arguments. We can’t wait for UPenn!
Public Forum:
After a week of topic lectures, the Public Forum team has shifted gears to preparing for the new February topic—“Resolved: In the United States, right-to-work laws do more harm than good.” The team is looking forward to competing at the upcoming in person tournaments at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard!
Lincoln Douglas:
LD is preparing for UPenn and Harvard! This will be the first away tournament for a few of our debaters, so we’re excited for this new opportunity to compete. Our novices have been learning skills for varsity debate to prepare them for next year, and we can’t wait to see their accomplishments!
Congress:
Stuy Congress came in PO-werfully to Fordham Prep on February 4th, with freshman novices Raymond Chen and Louis Oh-Aronson making it to finals! Additionally, novices Matthew Dong and Louis Oh-Aronson gained experience with presiding, a skill they’ll use in upcoming tournaments. As Fordham was the end of NYCFL locals, novices will be competing at upcoming BDLs and NYSFL regionals in order to procure their state qualifications, and the team is looking forward to competing at the University of Pennsylvania Invitational next weekend and Harvard Invitational the weekend after.
Parliamentary:
Parli had a Pro Am tournament on February 4th where Zeke Abaramowicz got 4th place speaker (2nd place novice) and Stuy AE (Zeke and Petr Ermishkin) placed 4th in prelims. We are continuing our practicing for the upcoming NYPDL February and the NYPDL March Invitational!
Speech:
Stuy Speech went to and did amazingly well at the CFL tournament at Fordham Prep this Saturday! The team placed 2nd in Sweepstakes, and the individual results are as follows: In JV Oral Interpretation, Ariana Lin made finals, Renae Leung placed 4th, and Prajusha Azeem placed 3rd! Prajusha is now qualified for states! In Programmed Oral Interpretation, Peter Goswami was champion, qualifying for the state championship. In Duo Interpretation, the pair of Ethan Khosh and Audrey Hilger placed second, winning a half-qualification for states, and in Declamation, Will Zhang placed 5th, fully qualifying for states. With these successes, we are excited to bring the momentum to the upcoming UPenn and Harvard invitationals!
Extemp:
4th, 3rd, and 2nd place in varsity extemp were won by Justin Ha, Aleksey Olkhovenko, and Unique Zhang at Fordham Prep this weekend! We also saw major improvement from the novices and competitors in OO in preparation for UPenn. As we head into peak invitational season, we’re seeing everyone practice more often with their buddies every week, with UPenn and Harvard competitors hitting a 5 practice quota within just a few weeks. Friday sessions are bustling as usual, and we can’t wait for the upcoming tournaments!
Thank you for reading!
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