Multiple National Champions face-off in this demo congressional debate round (student congress debate). The bill being debated is "A Bill to Halt Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia". Thank you Ascend Debate for providing this full debate round.
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People in the round: Quest Sandel (Presiding Officer), Hunter Brown, Nick DeVito, Ambreen Imran, Sydney Glickson, Rohit Jhawar, Jake Dean, Jack Fitzgerald, Ranen Miao, Isaac Appelbaum, and Nitin Subramanian.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00:00-Introduction
0:02:51-Ranen Miao
0:09:04-Jack Fitzgerald
0:15:45-Ambreen Imran
0:20:38-Jake Dean
0:25:39-Nitin Subramanian
0:31:04-Nick DeVito
0:36:10-Rohit Jhawar
0:40:58-Sydney Glickson
0:46:14-Hunter Brown:
0:52:11-Isaac Appelbaum
0:57:27-Closing
Rohit Jhawar has been involved in debate since his freshman year, primarily in Congressional Debate. Most notably, he won the 2019 NSDA tournament in Congressional Debate-Senate. He also championed the Stanford Invitational, took 2nd at the California State Tournament, and took 4th at the Tournament of Champions and UCBerkeley Invitational, along with finaling at Blake, ASU, Emory, and more. He has been president of his team for 3 years, and also coaches debate over the summer. Outside of debate, he is president of his school’s Latin Club, coaches youth basketball, and plays varsity soccer. He hopes to one day practice medicine clinically and ultimately teach it as a professor. In his free time, he likes playing basketball, listening to rap music, and cooking. He’s excited for a great year ahead with USA Debate.
Hunter Brown is a congressional debater who graduated high school in 2019. He attends Rice University. He held a prestigious record in the Speech and Debate club. He was State Champion in Domestic Extemp for Texas and a finalist in congressional debate. He also was a top 12 in congressional debate at NSDA Nationals his junior year. He now coaches congress across the nation.
Ambreen Imran is a freshman in the Honors Program and Undergraduate Research Scholars Program at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, where she is studying Neuroscience and Health Disparities. She graduated from Cypress Bay High School where she was Congressional Debate captain on the Cypress Bay debate team during the 2018-2019 school year and Student Tournament Director the year prior. Ambreen competed in Congressional Debate for four years; her most notable achievements include placing 5th at the 2019 Tournament of Champions, 7th at the Harvard National Forensics Tournament, 2nd at the Sunvitational, and 3rd at the 2018 Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament.
Nicholas DeVito is a current sophomore at Tufts University, where he studies International Relations, Quantitative Economics, and Chinese.
During his high school debate career, he advanced to elimination rounds at every tournament he attended and was ranked as high as first in both New York and the nation. Along with this, he currently holds the record for the largest amount of bids to the tournament of champions in congress: 36. During his time as a competitor, he championed the 2018 NSDA National Championship in the House, 2018 Tournament of Champions, 2018 Harvard National Congress, 2017 Pennsbury Falcon Invitational, and 2017 Bronx Round Robin; placed second at the 2017 CFL national championship, 2018 University of Pennsylvania tournament, 2018 Emory Barkley Forum, 2017 Blake Round Robin, 2017 Yale Invitational, 2016 Minneapple, and 2016 Villiger Hosted by St. Josephs; placed 3rd at the 2018 Durham Cavalier Invitational, 2016 and 2017 New York Invitational, 2016 GMU Patriot Games; placed fourth at the 2016 Wakeforest Early bird tournament and 2017 Minneapple; Placed fifth at the 2017 Glenbrooks; Placed 7th in the 2017 NSDA championship in the House, finaled at the 2017 Harvard National Congress, and 2015 Princeton Classic.
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