Pranav Reddy Wins Harvard-Westlake

Studio City, CA -- Congratulations to Harker's Pranav Reddy for winning the 2015 Harvard-Westlake Debate Tournament! In finals, Pranav defeated Peninsula's Akhil Jalan on a 2-1 decision (Hunt*, Neesen, Torson). Congratulations to both debaters! Congratulations to Pranav for also advancing to elims undefeated and winning top speaker. Pranav is coached by Greg Achten, Ryan Fink, Jordan Lamothe, and Jerry Chen. Akhil is coached by Chris Theis and Scott Wheeler.

Harvard-Westlake is an octafinals bid qualifier to the Tournament of Champions.

Pairings can be found on Tabroom: https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/index.mhtml?tourn_id=2819

Partial Triples

Brentwood JR def Chaminade JC

Hopkins SG def Brentwood MR

Law Magnet DD def Harrison KK

MSJ PB def Peninsula JL

Brentwood JC def Los Altos SN

Crossroads NS def La Canada AZ

Lexington DA def Presentation MS

Flintridge MC def MSJ AB

MSJ SS def Servite RD

Meadows MS def Dougherty Valley CS

Brentwood CH def North Crowley AR

Peninsula KK def Oakwood NM

Double Octafinals

Torrey Pines VB def Hopkins SG 3-0 (Fink, Chen, Hunt)

Miramonte TK def Lynbrook DW 2-1 (Smith*, Fink, Legried)

Brentwood JC def Torrey Pines SS 2-1 (Fife*, Sohn, Peiris)

Harker PR def Brentwood JR 3-0 (Letak, Peiris, Torson)

Peninsula AT def Crossroads NS 3-0 (Newkirk, Torson, Walton)

Brentwood JL def Law Magnet DD 3-0 (Jacobson, Randall, Walton)

Peninsula AJ def Flintridge MC 3-0 (Hang, Jacobson, Neesen)

Interlake AL def MSJ SS 2-1 (Hang*, Newkirk, Raskin)

Peninsula JZ def Meadows MS 2-1 (Harris, Koh, Roberts*)

Los Altos JN def Peninsula KK 2-1 (Harris, Hunt, Roberts*)

Greenhill BE def Lexington DA 3-0 (Ahsan, Amestoy, Wheeler)

Torrey Pines KK def Hawken NK 2-1 (Chen, Wheeler, Fife*)

John Marshall DD def MSJ PB 3-0 (Kulkarni, Overing, O'Krent)

Apple Valley GH def Greenhill GB 3-0 (Wanless, Alderete, Kulkarni)

Oakwood JW def Brentwood CH 3-0 (Bistagne, Yanofsky, Ziaee)

Northland Christian DL def Lexington AS 3-0 (Amestoy, Damerdji, Bistagne)

Octafinals (bid)

Peninsula AT def Northland Christian DL 3-0 (Randall, Fife, Kulkarni)

Los Altos JN def Peninsula JZ 2-1 (Amestoy, Legried, Neesen)

Greenhill BE def Apple Valley GH 3-0 (Newkirk, Jacobson, Legried)

Torrey Pines VB def Miramonte TK 3-0 (Fife, Kumar, Walton)

Harker PR def Torrey Pines KK 3-0 (Amestoy, Alderete, Walton)

Peninsula AJ def Interlake AL 3-0 (Roberts, Yanofsky, Chen)

Brentwood JL def John Marshall DD 3-0 (Fink, Sullivan, Letak)

Oakwood JW def Brentwood JC 3-0 (Fink, Jacobson, Hang)

Quarterfinals

Greenhill BE def Los Altos JN (James Naumovski) 3-0 (Hunt, Kumar, Letak)

Peninsula AJ def Torrey Pines VB (Varun Bhave) 2-1 (Fink, Torson, Walton)

Harker PR def Brentwood JL (Jackson Lallas) 3-0 (Wheeler, Neesen, Yanofsky)

Peninsula AT def Oakwood JW (Jack Wareham) 3-0 (Chen, Amestoy, Legried)

Semifinals

Peninsula AJ def Greenhill BE (Bennett Eckert) 2-1 (Fink, Torson, Hunt*)

Harker PR def Peninsula AT (Arjun Tambe) 2-1 (Randall*, Roberts, Amestoy)

Finals

Harker PR def Peninsula AJ (Akhil Jalan) 2-1 (Hunt*, Neesen, Torson)

Champion

Harker PR (Pranav Reddy)