Brown Debating Union

This past weekend, five generations (loosely interpreted) came together for ProAms! We paired up varsity (and even alumni) debaters with our newly initiated novices to travel to Fordham/George Washington, virtually, of course. We made the much shorter commute to Barus and Holley instead. Congrats to Raymond Dai for being 6th novice speaker and to Karim Zohdy and Mia Stone-Molloy for breaking! Attached, see their beautiful faces!

After resting up over winter break, and preparing for the first sanctioned semester in a while, the BDU hit the ground running to start the year, further proving that we need not be together in person to be bound a collective passion for debate and a knack for picking up some major Ws.

So, over the past three weekends, the BDU sent teams to host of tournaments, including Villanova/Amherst, Bates BP ProAms, NorthAms, and Rutgers/Yale

At Villanova/Amherst:

Renny was 4th Novice Speaker!

Mia was 2nd Speaker!
Jackson was TOP Speaker!!

Mia and Jackson WON THE TOURNAMENT!!!!

Mia qualified to Nats!!!!

At Bates:
Chris and Elaine broke to Quarters!!!

Last weekend, the youths of the BDU got their first chance to compete at the 2020 APDA Novice Tournament!! Despite the fact that it was all on Zoom, we had an awesome time playing trivia, engaging in intense games of Among Us, and welcoming the novices onto the team. We also picked up some Ws along the way.

Mac was 16th speaker
Renny was 13th speaker
Roza was 12th speaker
Max was 7th speaker

Alex and Anirudh broke to Octas
Max and Roza broke to Semis
Mac and Sai WON the tournament