by Daniel Kind
The 39th annual Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament was recently held the weekend before Thanksgiving with 88 entries. As per usual, the tournament was run using a clean break system, but without the usage of the internet during prep. As one of the largest tournaments in the season and one of the last of the year, Glenbrooks is hugely impactful on the Extemp circuit. The final round this year was one of the most hotly contested finals in recent memory for the tournament.Gus Lanz from Cypress Bay High School (FL) earned 1st place in the tournament. He beat out East Ridge High School’s (MN) Sam Padmanabhan, who got 2nd, by one rank in the final round. Pierce Florey of Phoenix Country Day School (AZ) was tied with Padmanabhan for 2nd, but due to judge preference, he took the 3rd place spot. Anuj Kothari from Bellarmine College Preparatory (CA) got 4th place while Ethan Jiang from Seven Lakes High School (TX) edged out Sinan Kassim from the NSU University School (FL) by judge preference for 5th and 6th place respectively.
As a result of The Glenbrooks’ status as a 3rd tier tournament, Lanz earned 100 points for the affair, propelling him to 1st place in the Extemp Central national points race. Padmanabhan got 80 points, placing him in 5th place. Florey accrued 70 points for 6th place in the points race. Kothari attained 50 points for 8th, Jiang earned 40 (tying him for 12th place with Pranav Pattatahunaduvil), and Kassim gained 33 points, making him 10th. All semifinalists got 25 points, putting Theodore Roosevelt HS’s Mo Marks at 2nd and Lake Highland Preparatory’s Daniel Kind at 7th respectively. All quarterfinalists earned 15 points, tying American Heritage Plantation’s Juliette Reyes for third with James Gao.
Here are the results of 2019 Glenbrooks (Click Here for Tab Sheet):
Champion: Gus Lanz (Cypress Bay, Florida)
2nd: Sam Padmanabhan (East Ridge, Minnesota)
3rd: Pierce Florey (Phoenix Country Day, Arizona)
4th: Anuj Kothari (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
5th: Ethan Jiang (Seven Lakes, Texas)
6th: Sinan Kassim (NSU, Florida)
Semifinalists
Dylan Cawley (Delbarton, New Jersey)
Daniel Kind (Lake Highland Preparatory, Florida)
Caleb Lawson (Moore, Oklahoma)
Michelle Liu (Ardrey Kell, North Carolina)
Mo Marks (Theodore Roosevelt, Iowa)
Ananth Veluvali (Edina, Minnesota)
Quarterfinalists
Gabriel Bit-Babik (Nova, Florida)
Jishnu Basu (Plano Senior, Texas)
Rohan Chhaya (Plano Senior, Texas)
Alex Dray (Ransom Everglades, Florida)
William Hays (Brophy, Arizona)
Ella Marshall (NSU, Florida)
Khalid Mohieldin (George Washington, Colorado)
George Pierson (Dowling Catholic, Iowa)
Hea Pushpraj (Tulsa Washington, Oklahoma)
Juliette Reyes (American Heritage, Florida)
Katherine Rollins (Potomac, Virginia)
Rehan Rupawalla (Tompkins, Texas)
Venkat Sambaraj (Tompkins, Texas)
Siya Sharma (Monte Vista, California)
Tristan Wertanzl (Cypress Bay, Florida)