Season Results 2013-2014

The BQDC Team Photo 2013-2014 (Photo Credit: Taylor Blackburn ’15).

The Brooks Quimby Debate Council concludes its most competitively successful season in recent institutional memory, ranking among the top debate programs in the United States and throughout the world.

Results for American Parliamentary Style (APDA) Tournaments

Tournament Wins
BU Novice: Zoë Seaman-Grant & Matthew Kahn

Varsity Breaks
Columbia: Taylor Blackburn & Matthew Summers (3rd)
Harvard: Blackburn & Summers (5th)
Brandeis: Blackburn & Summers (2nd)
Brown: Blackburn & Summers (3rd)
Northeastern ProAms: Seaman-Grant & Summers (5th), Blackburn & Kahn (9th)
Wesleyan: Summers & Kahn (2nd)
Middlebury: Blackburn & Summers (6th)
Providence College: Blackburn & Seaman-Grant (4th)
Wellesley: Blackburn & Summers (2nd)
Yale ProAms: Stewart & Kahn (7th)
Stanford: Blackburn & Seaman-Grant (3rd)
UConn: Shannon Griffin & Evan Binder (6th)
MIT: Summers & Nate Rifkin (Middlebury) (7th)
BU: Blackburn & Summers (2nd)
Penn Nationals: Blackburn & Summers (9th)

Varsity Speaker Awards
Columbia: Blackburn (7th)
Harvard: Blackburn (4th)
Brandeis: Blackburn (1st), Summers (6th)
Brown: Blackburn (9th)
Northeastern: Summers (7th)
Wesleyan: Summers (6th), Kahn (8th)
Middlebury: Summers (6th), Blackburn (7th)
Wellesley: Summers (6th), Blackburn (7th)
Stanford: Blackburn (6th)
MIT: Summers (8th)
BU: Summers (8th)
Penn Nationals: Blackburn (6th)

Novice Breaks
Vassar: Seaman-Grant & Kahn (1st)
Brandeis: Seaman-Grant & Kahn (3rd)
Brown: Seaman-Grant & Kahn (2nd), Michael Stone & Jake Villarreal (3rd)
Wesleyan: Seaman-Grant & Tessa Holtzman (5th)
Dartmouth: Kahn & Tim Luciano (Brandeis) (2nd), Stone & Villarreal (3rd)
Middlebury: Villarreal & Dmitriy Redkin (3rd)
Providence College: Redkin & Noah Levick (4th)
Wellesley: Seaman-Grant & Amelia Berg (Brandeis) (1st), Kahn & Danny Jaffe (Brandeis) (2nd)
Stanford: Kahn & Villarreal (6th), Redkin & Holtzman (7th)
MIT: Seaman-Grant & Kyle Grigel (Penn) (2nd), Kahn & Berg (Brandeis) (5th)
BU: Seaman-Grant & Luciano (Brandeis) (1st)
Penn Nationals: Seaman-Grant & Kahn (3rd)

Novice Speaker Awards
Smith: Kahn (5th)
Columbia: Kahn (1st)
BU Novice: Seaman-Grant (7th)
Vassar: Seaman-Grant (2nd), Kahn (8th)
Harvard: Kahn (3rd), Seaman-Grant (9th)
Brandeis: Seaman-Grant (3rd), Kahn (6th)
Brown: Seaman-Grant (4th), Villarreal (6th), Stone (8th)
Northeastern ProAms: Kahn (3rd), Seaman-Grant (4th)
Wesleyan: Kahn (1st), Seaman-Grant (4th)
Dartmouth: Kahn (1st), Stone (7th)
Middlebury: Villarreal (4th), Redkin (5th)
Providence College: Seaman-Grant (1st)
Wellesley: Seaman-Grant (1st), Kahn (3rd), Redkin (10th)
Yale ProAms: Kahn (5th)
Stanford: Seaman-Grant (1st), Kahn (5th), Redkin (8th), Villarreal (9th), Holtzman (10th)
MIT: Seaman-Grant (7th), Kahn (8th)
BU: Seaman-Grant (1st), Kahn (9th)

Results for British Parliamentary (BP) Style Tournaments

Tournament Wins
Yale IV: Taylor Blackburn & Jack Stewart
Brandeis IV: Blackburn & Stewart
Kings IV: Stephanie Wesson & Ben Claeson
Purdue Nationals (USUDC): Blackburn & Stewart

Varsity Breaks
UVM IV: Emily Schwalbe & Claeson (Semi-Finalists)
Chennai Worlds (WUDC): Blackburn & Stewart (21st), Wesson & Summers  (39th)

Varsity Speaker Awards
Yale IV: Blackburn (9th)
Cambridge IV: Blackburn (6th)
Brandeis IV: Blackburn (2nd), Stewart (8th)
Kings IV: Wesson (3rd), Claeson (5th), Schwalbe (9th)
Purdue Nationals (USUDC): Blackburn (6th)

Novice Breaks
Brandeis IV: Dmitriy Redkin & Noah Levick (2nd), Zoë Seaman-Grant & Matthew Kahn (4th)

Novice Speaker Awards
Brandeis IV: Kahn (7th), Redkin (9th)

Sent Abroad
Oxford IV: Shannon Griffin & Alex Daugherty, Wesson & Summers, Schwalbe & Claeson
Cambridge IV: Blackburn & Stewart, Sasha Grodsky & Jillian Zook
Chennai Worlds (WUDC): Blackburn & Stewart, Wesson & Summers

Results for Bates Novice APDA Tournament (In-House)

Speaker Awards
5. Mike Stone
4. Quang Nguyen
3. Jake Villarreal
2. Tessa Holtzman
1. Zoë Seaman-Grant

Team Awards (breaking to finals)
2. Jake Villarreal & Mike Stone
1. Zoë Seaman-Grant & Tessa Holtzman