Tournament Congratulations from Stanford Tournament
Individual Events
Patrick Sheehan was both a SemiFinalist in Impromptu and the 7th Place Finalist in Spar Debate
Andrew Gilley was a SemiFinalist in Foreign Extemporaneous and the 6th Place Finalist in Impromptu
Rylan Schaeffer placed in Finals in an amazing 3 different events: the 5th Place Finalist in Foreign Extemporaneous, the 2nd Place Finalist in Impromptu, and the Champion in Spar Debate!
        
Debate Events
In Public Forum debate: Jasmine Xu and Stefan Tian were Double-OctaFinalists
In LD:  Ruchita Pendse was the Junior Varsity SemiFinalist
                 Jing Wang completed his Qualification for the Tournament of Champions
                 Jeff Merrill was a Double-OctaFinalist
                 Daniel Khalessi  was an OctaFinalist & 5th Speaker
                 Daniel Garber was an OctaFinalists and the Top Speaker
                 Natalee Pei was a QuarterFinalist
                 Daniel Moerner was the 4th Speaker and the Champion for the 2nd year in a row


Tournament Congratulations from Berkeley Tournament--there were 205 schools competing!

Individual Events
Dan Meierkort and Andrew Gilley were both QuarterFinalists in Impromptu
Sushmita Sridhar was a QuarterFinalist in Extemporaneous Speech
Mason Satterwhite was a SemiFinalist in Congress plus he received his first bid to the Tournament of Champions
Rylan Schaeffer was a Finalist and placed 8th in Congress in addition to receiving his first bid to the Tournament of Champions
        
Debate Events
Public Forum debate: Stefan Tian and Kevin McKee were Double-OctaFinalists
LD debate:      Jing Wang was a Triple OctaFinalist
                 Daniel Khalessi was a Double OctaFinalist and 20th Speaker
                 Daniel Garber was an OctaFinalist
                 Natalee Pei was a Quarter Finalist
                 Daniel Moerner was the Tournament Champion and 4th Speaker

Lynbrook Debate results
         Almog Gavra was undefeated in JV LD at Lynbrook!

State Qual Congress     
        Rylan Schaeffer will be attending the State Tournament in Congress
        Mason Satterwhite is the alternate for the State Tournament as a Presiding Officer

Harker Invitational
         Stefan Tan and Jasmine Xu were Quarter Finalists in Public Forum
         Ruchita Pendse and Saleil Bhat were Quarter Finalists in the Novice LD bracket
        Max McCarthy was the Champion in the Novice LD bracket
        Daniel Garber was 2nd Speaker and an Octa Finalist in Varsity LD         
         Natalee Pei was 6th Speaker and a Quarter Finalist in Varsity LD
        Daniel Khalessi was 5th Speaker and the Champion in Varsity LD
        Mason Satterwhite was the 5th Place Finalist in Congress and completed his Qualifier for the TOC
        Chris Galdamez was the 4th Place Finalist in Congress and received his first bid to the TOC
        Rylan Schaeffer was the Champion in Congress and completed his Qualifier for the TOC

Nat Qual
         Rylan Schaeffer was a SemiFinalist in Foreign Extemporaneous
        Neha Shah is the First Alternate for Original Oratory for the National Tournament in Alabama in June
        Natalee Pei was the Champion in LD at the Qualifier and will be competing at the National Tournament

State Quals
         Semi-Finalists: Neha Shah - OO; Dan Meierkort - Impromptu; Patrick Sheehan - Impromptu; Sushmita Sridhar - FX; Arian Dehnow - DI; Dor Gvirtsman - HI
        Finalist (and attending State!): Jasmine Flake - OPP

Tournament Congratulation from Victory Briefs Tournament
        Natalee Pei = Double OctaFinalist
        Jeff Merrill = Octa-Finalist (was walked over by Daniel Garber but now has a ghost-bid to complete his TOC quals!) + 16th Speaker
        Daniel Khalessi = QuarterFinalist + 4th Speaker
        Daniel Garber = SemiFinalist + 18th Speaker
        Daniel Moerner = Champion + First Speaker
        Mountain View placed 3rd in the Team Sweepstakes!

Tournament Congratulations from Lexington Tournament
        Natalee Pei = Double Octafinalist in LD
        Jeff Merrill = Champion in LD  

Tournament Congratulations from MLK Tournament
        Sahil Luthra, Shefali Luthra, Max McCarthy = Double Octafinalist in LD 
        Stefan Tian + Peter Wang = Double Octafinalist in Public Forum
        Rylan Schaeffer + Andrew Gilley = Octafinalist in Parli
        Rylan Schaeffer = 3rd Speaker in Parli
        Oliwia Baney, Andrew Gilley,and Sushmita Sridhar = Quarterfinalist in FX
        Rylan Schaeffer = Semifinalist in FX
        Rylan Schaeffer = Finalist in Impromptu; 6th place
        Alison Chalker = Quarterfinalist in DI

Tournament Congratulations from IE Evergreen Tournament
        Rylan Schaeffer - double break to Semis in FX and Impromptu; Finalist, 5th place, in FX
        Justin Bai - Semifinalist in Impromptu (first time competing in Impromptu)
        Reyna Hulett - Semifinalist in Expos
        Jasmine Flake - Semifinalist in OPP

Tournament Congratulations from Emory Tournament
        Jing Wang = Double Octafinalist in LD
        Daniel Garber = Finalist in LD; 5th Speaker  

Tournament Congratulations from Santa Clara Tournament held right before Finals
        Patrick Sheehan - Semifinalist in Open Impromptu
        Lauren Sohn - Semifinalist in Novice Humorous Interpretation.
        Arian Dehnow - Finalist in Novice Dramatic Interpretation
        Chris Galdamez and Mason Satterwhite - Finalists in Congress
         Max McCarthy -  Octafinalist in Open LD
        Alex Richardson - Octafinalist in Novice LD
        Ruchita Pendse - second in Novice LD. 
        Natalee Pei - second in Open LD

Tournament Congratulations from College Prep Tournament held right after Finals
        Max McCarthy - Octafinalist in Novice LD and 2nd Speaker       
        Shefali Luthra - Double Octafinalist in Varsity LD     
        Natalee Pei - Octafinalist and 11th Speaker in Varsity LD
        Jing Wang - Octafinalist and the Top Speaker (John McKay Award) in Varsity LD
        Daniel Khalessi - Semifinalist and 8th Speaker in Varsity LD
        Daniel Garber - Champion and 3rd Speaker in Varsity LD

The News page has not been updated in a while--apologies.

Most recently, Adron Mason was undefeated at the novice tournament at Saratoga in LD.  Congratulations!

Also, we will soon have a vote on team T-shirts online (http://sites.google.com/site/mvlasd/polling).  Stay tuned for that.

Daniel Moerner and Daniel Garber are fully qualified and auto-qualified to the Tournament of Champions.  Daniel Moerner received bids by winning the Valley Mid-America Cup (IA) and reaching semifinals of the St. Mark's Heart of TX invitational (TX).  Daniel Garber was a quarterfinalist at the Greenhill Invitational (TX) and semifinalist at the New York City Invitational (NY).  Daniel Khalessi and Jing Wang each have one bid; Khalessi was a semifinalist at St. Mark's, and Jing was an octafinalist.

        The recent Congress Tournament at Palo Alto High School had the following results:

in one House = Briannon Schaeffer = third place

in Another House = Chris Galdamez = third place

in Another House = Katie Keim = second place

in Senate = Rylan Schaeffer = first place

Although many members of the team are just beginning to learn about events, the varsity Lincoln-Douglas debate squad is already off to competitions around the nation.  Last weekend, Jeff Merill reached quarterinals at the Grapevine Invitational, where he was also ranked top speaker and first seed going into elimination rounds.  This weekend, we hope for more success as MVHS sends three debaters--Daniel G., Daniel K., and Jeff M.--to the Greenhill Fall Classic in Dallas, TX.