Our Awards

Our team has a proud history of succeeding at high profile British Parliamentary and American Parliamentary tournaments.

Violet Sinnarkar and Alec Kan in the finals of the 2017 Dominican Invitational

2024 - 2025

  • Yale IV

    Derek Chang and Divit Chopra as Novice Semi-Finalists

  • UBC IV

    Ryan Ham and Justin Zhou as Runner-Up Open Finalists. Ryan was ranked as the 3rd Best Open Speaker. Justin was ranked as the 9th Best Open Speaker.

    David Eick and Colin Johnston as reserve Open Semi-Finalists. David was ranked as the 3rd Best Open Speaker. Colin was ranked as the 9th Best Open Speaker.

    Collin Goel and Alex Parikh-Briggs as Novice Champions. Alex was ranked as the 6th Best Novice Speaker. Collin was ranked as the 8th Best Novice Speaker.

    Florence Zhu was ranked as the 9th Best Novice Speaker.

    Edward Xu as a member of the Chief Adjudicating Panel.

    Alex Lin, Derek Chang, and Evan Vega as Breaking Adjudicators.

  • UCLA IV

    Florence Zhu and Daniel Huang as Open Quarterfinalists.

    Collin Goel and Alex Parikh-Briggs as Pro-Am Finalists.

2023 - 2024

  • North American Universities Debating Championships

    Eddy Xu and Shayor Khan as Novice Champions

    Preethi Mohan as Breaking Adjudicator in ESL Finals

  • Berkeley IV

    Ryan Ham and David Eick as Open Semifinalists.

    Edward Xu as a member of the Chief Adjudicating Panel.

    Briana Villatoro, Hunter Valencia, Kember Feuerzeig, Murtaza Shiyaji, Preethi Mohan, and Shayor Khan as Breaking Adjudicators.

  • USC IV

    Shayor Khan and Edward Xu as Open Champions. Shayor and Eddy were tied as the 1st Best Open Speaker. Eddy was the Finals Best Speaker.

    Jocelyn Liu and Kember Feuerzeig as Open Finalists. Jocelyn was ranked as the 16th Best Open Speaker and 5th Best Novice Speaker. Kember was ranked as the 8th Best Open Speaker.

    Ryan Ham and Justin Zhou as Open Semifinalists. Ryan was ranked as the 6th Best Open Speaker. Justin was ranked as the 8th Best Open Speaker and 2nd Best Novice Speaker

  • World Universities Debating Championships

    Shayor Khan and Edward Xu as Open Octofinals.

  • SEATTLE IV

    Murtaza Shiyaji and Nathan Wong as Open Finalists.

    Thomas Decugis and Colin Johnston as Novice Champions.

    Briana Villatoro and Emily Yoon as Novice Finalists. Emily was ranked as the 3rd Best ESL Speaker.

  • YALE IV

    Shayor Khan and Edward Xu as Open Quarterfinalists. Shayor was ranked as the 6th Best Novice Speaker.

  • United States Universities Debating Championships

    David Eick and Preethi Mohan as Novice Finalists.

    Ryan Ham and Justin Zhou as Novice Semifinalists.

2022 - 2023

  • HPU IV

    Madelyn Christensen and Hunter Valencia as Open Finalists. Hunter was ranked as the Top Novice Speaker

  • WESTERN IV

    Preethi Mohan and Daniel Zhu as Open Semifinalists. Preethi was ranked as the 2nd Best Novice Speaker and 5th Best Open Speaker. Daniel was ranked as the Top Novice Speaker and 2nd Best Open Speaker.

    Madelyn Christensen and Hunter Valencia as Open Quarterfinalists.

    Parth Desai as a breaking adjudicator in Open Finals

  • BERKELEY IV

    Madelyn Christensen and Hunter Valencia as Novice Champions.

  • USC IV

    David Eick and Hunter Valencia as Open Finalists. David and Hunter were ranked as the 3rd Best Open Speaker and 2nd Best Novice Speaker, respectively.

  • SEATTLE IV

    Diane Chao and Rami Gruman as Open Finalists. Diane and Rami were ranked as the 7th and 8th Best Open Speakers, respectively.

2021 - 2022

  • DUKE IV

    Ofir Dvir as a breaking adjudicator in Open Finals.

  • SEATTLE IV

    Murtaza Shiyaji and Eliz Zhou as Open Quarterfinalists. Eliz was ranked as the Top Novice Speaker and 3rd Best Open Speaker.

  • UCL ECONOMICS

    Rami Gruman and Murtaza Shiyaji as Open Finalists.

  • HWS IV

    Yash Dave and Zaiyana Shafqut as the 5th best ranking team in the Novice division.

  • WESTERN IV

    Andrew Lin and Murtaza Shiyaji as Novice Champions.

  • COLGATE IV

    Oliver Bell as a breaking adjudicator to the Open Finals.

2020 - 2021

  • DUKE IV

    Isaac Goldstein and Frankie Duan as Open Quarterfinalists with Isaac ranked as the 9th Best Open Speaker.

  • WESTERN IV

    Swathy Natarajan and Sam Arias as Novice Finalists.

    Nathan Wong as a breaking adjudicator to Novice Semifinals.

  • PENN AND TUFTS APDA

    Peter Zhang and Kevin Zeng as Open Semifinalists with Kevin ranked as the 8th Best Novice Speaker.

  • SEATTLE IV

    Isaac Goldstein and Frankie Duan as Open Finalists.

    Chris Ying and Zachary Pfeiffer as Novice Semifinalists.

    Sindre Carlsen as a breaking adjudicator in Novice Semifinalists.

  • VANDERBILT IV

    Isaac Goldstein and Frankie Duan broke as Open Semifinalists with Isaac ranked as the Best Open Speaker.

    Kember Feuerzeig and Ryan Keane as Novice Finalists with Ryan ranked as the 8th Best Novice Speaker.

2019 - 2020

  • PENGUIN INVITATIONAL

    Amit Sagar and Isaac Goldstein as Champions.

    Alec Kan and Violet Sinnarkar as Open Finalists.

    Brandon Harden and Isabel Penman as Open Semifinalists.

  • UCLA IV

    Varun Menon and Jonathan Bodine as Open Finalists.

    Hazel An and Jeffrey Cheng as Novice Finalists.

    Emma Edelman and Savr Kumar as Novice Finalists.

    Sandhya Narayanan and Diane Chao as Breaking Adjudicators in Open Semifinals.

  • USC IV

    Ryan Ham and Michelle Lee as Open Semifinalists.

2018 - 2019

  • PENGUIN INVITATIONAL

    Alec Kan and Violet Sinnarkar take 2nd in Open Finals.

    Andreas Orsmond and Ian Wong advance to Open Finals.

    Isaac Goldstein and Kyle Ashworth advance to Open Semifinals.

2017 - 2018

  • US UNIVERSITIES DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIPS

    Henry Weikel and Pranav Shankar broke 18th seed to Open Octofinals, marking the first nationals break in Berkeley's history.

    Ariana Jessa and Catherine Wang broke as the highest ranked team in the nation in the Novice Division, advancing to Novice Quarterfinals.

    Jonathan Bodine and Ishaan Srivastava broke 13th seed to Novice Quarterfinals.

  • AMERICA'S CUP

    Henry Weikel and Pranav Shankar advanced to Open Finals.

  • STANFORD APDA

    Luke Zhang and Ariana Jessa advanced to Novice Finals and were 4th and 6th ranked Novice speakers, respectively.

    Jake Klawans/Laurel McGrane broke in the Novice division.

  • CHICAGO APDA

    Emma Barton and Kevin Klyman were 3rd and 7th ranked speakers.

  • BRANDEIS IV

    Luke Zhang and Catherine Wang broke to Novice Finals, with Luke as the 8th Best Novice Speaker.

  • CAMBRIDGE IV

    Henry Weikel broke 6th in the Open Quarterfinals.

  • YALE IV

    Pranav Shanker and Dennis Tekell broke to the Open Quarterfinals

    Luke Zhang and Catherine Wang broke to Novice Finals. Luke was the 9th ranked Novice Speaker.

  • OXFORD IV

    Henry Weikel broke 13th in the Open Quarterfinals.

  • MOODY BIBLE APDA

    Kevin Klyman and Emma Barton broke to Open Quarterfinals. Kevin was the 2nd ranked speaker.

  • DURHAM IV

    Henry Weikel was the 4th ranked speaker.

  • EDINBURGH CUP

    Henry Weikel broke first, was the top ranked speaker, and won the Edinburgh cup.