Results & Awards
2025-2026 Season
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GW Pro-Ams: Finalists (John Wu & Rohan Ganesh), Semifinalists (Rohan Seelamsetty & Vincent Ying), Octofinalists (Alex Uy-Tioco & Lavanya Mani ), 7th Varsity Speaker (Rohan Ganesh), 10th Varsity Speaker (John Wu), 2nd Novice Speaker (John Wu), 3rd Novice Speaker (Vincent Ying), 7th Novice Speaker (Rohan Seelamsetty), 10th Novice Speaker (Lavanya Mani)
Harvard APDA: Octofinalists (Alex Uy-Tioco & Hybrid, Jason Tu & Hasit Nanda), 4th Best Open Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco)
UMD APDA: Novice Champions (Vincent Ying & Rohan Seelamsetty), 4th Novice Speaker (Vincent Ying), 10th Novice Speaker (Rohan Seelamsetty)
Brown APDA: Quarterfinalists (Alex Uy-Tioco & Clement Tsao, breaking 7th), 9th Best Open Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco)
Chicago APDA 2026: Semifinalists (Clement Tsao & Alex Uy-Tioco), Novice Semifinalists (Kevin Shi & Vincent Ying), 4th Novice Speaker (Sarah Li), 10th Novice Speaker (Vincent Ying)
Rutgers APDA: 10th Best Open Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco)
Columbia BIPOC: Quarterfinalists, 4th Best Speaker (Jason Tu), 3rd Best Speaker (Rohan Ganesh)
Temple Pro-Ams: Co-Champions (Sarah Li & Alex Uy-Tioco), 3rd Best Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco)
Swarthmore APDA: Champions (Alex Uy-Tioco & Jason Tu), Quarterfinalists (Hasit Nanda & Vincent Ying), 4th Best Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco), 5th Best Speaker (Jason Tu), 10th Best Speaker (Vincent Ying)
CUNY APDA: Quarterfinalists (Alex Uy-Tioco & Jason Tu), 2nd Best Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco)
Georgetown APDA: Quarterfinalists (Alex Uy-Tioco & Jason Tu), 2nd Best Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco), 7th Best Speaker (Jason Tu)
CMU APDA: 8th Best Speaker (Rohan Ganesh), 4th Best Novice Speaker (John Wu)
Yale APDA: Novice Semifinalists (Rajas Nanda & Iveena Mukherjee)
UVA APDA: Semifinalists (Alex Uy-Tioco & Hybrid), 3rd Best Varsity Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco)
APDA National Championships: Octofinalists (Jason Tu & Alex Uy-Tioco), 9th Best Speaker (Jason Tu), 12th Best Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco), 2nd Novice Speaker (Sarah Li), 1st ESL Speaker (Rohan Seelamsetty), 2nd ESL Speaker (Vincent Ying)
APDA Season Rankings: 7th Club of the Year (Penn Debate Society), 5th Speaker of the Year (Alex Uy-Tioco), #1 Women/Gender Minority Debater (Alex Uy-Tioco)
Princeton APDA: Top Speaker (Alex Uy-Tioco)
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World Universities Debating Championship: Partial Double Octofinalists (Clement Tsao & Karthik Palakodeti), 15th Best Speaker (Clement Tsao)
US University Debating Championships: National Champions (Clement Tsao & Karthik Palakodeti), Semifinalists (Rohan Seelamsetty & Vincent Ying), 5th Best Speaker (Rohan Seelamsetty), 6th Best Speaker (Clement Tsao), 9th Best Speaker (Vincent Ying), 10th Best Speaker (Karthik Palakodeti)
Yale IV: Finalists (Clement Tsao & Karthik Palakodeti), Quarterfinalists (Sarah Li & Hybrid), Novice Semifinalists (Vincent Ying & Rajas Nanda), 9th Overall Speaker (Clement Tsao), Top Novice Speaker (Sarah Li), 7th Novice Speaker (Vincent Ying)
Oxford Charity Open: Finalists (Vincent Ying & Hybrid)
Hart House IV: Finalists (Clement Tsao & John Wu)
UCLA IV: Quarterfinalists (Clement Tsao & Hybrid)
Princeton IV: Quarterfinalists (Clement Tsao & Karthik Palakodeti; Hasit Nanda & Jason Tu)
Cornell Novice Nationals: Finalists (Sarah Li & Vincent Ying), Quarterfinalists (Rajas Nanda & Ammar Aziz), 1st Best Speaker (Sarah Li), 2nd Best Speaker (Vincent Ying), 1st ESL Speaker (Ammar Aziz), 1st Rookie Speaker (Ammar Aziz)
NAUDC: Semifinalists (Sarah Li & Vincent Ying), Quarterfinalists (Rohan Seelamsetty & Clement Tsao), 2nd Best Speaker (Clement Tsao), 1st ESL Speaker (Vincent Ying)
Shanghai International Debate Open: Champions (Clement Tsao & Hybrid)
HWS Round Robin: Invitees (Clement Tsao & Karthik Palakodeti)
2024-2025 Season
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Harvard APDA: 7th Varsity Speaker and Varsity Octofinalist (Jason Tu); 2nd Novice Speaker and Quarterfinalist (Clement Tsao and Musab Chummun); Quarterfinalist (Alexandra Uy-Tioco)
Georgetown APDA: 4th Novice Speaker and Novice Semifinalist (Clement Tsao and Karthik Palakodeti)
George Washington APDA Proams: Octofinalist (Hasit Nanda and Arushi Agarwal); Novice Semifinalist (Cindy Chen and Isha Chilukuri)
Columbia BIPOC: 8th Varsity Speaker and Varsity Finalist (Hasit Nanda and Carina Li); 5th Varsity and 1st Novice Speaker and Novice Co-champions (Clement Tsao); 7th and 8th Novice Speakers and Novice Co-Champions (Clarence Guo and Raynathan Christopher); 5th Novice Speaker and Novice Semifinalist (Ariel Qi and Siilen Sergelen)
Chicago APDA: Varsity Semifinalist (Rohan Ganesh); 9th Varsity Speaker and Varsity Quarterfinalist (Jason Tu); 6th Open and 1st Novice Speaker and Varsity Quarterfinalist (Clement Tsao and Musab Chummun); 6th and 10th Novice Speakers and Novice Champions (Neil He and John Wu)
Swarthmore APDA: 9th Open Speaker and Quarterfinalist (Jason Tu and Rohan Ganesh)
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World Universities Debating Championship: Octofinalist (Sena Kim and Hasit Nanda); 9th ESL Speaker and Octofinalist (Ashwin Laksumanage and Jason Tu); Partial-Double Octofinalist (Alexandra Uy-Tioco and Victoria Ling)
Vienna Pre-EUDC: 7th and 8th Novice Speakers and Varsity Semifinalist (Ashwin Laksumanage and Jason Tu)
Princeton IV: Tied 7th Open Speakers and Open Finalist (Ashwin Laksumanage and Jason Tu); Tied 9th ESL Speaker 14th Open Speaker and Open Quarterfinalist (Victoria Ling and Alexandra Uy-Tioco)
Yale IV: 9th ESL Speaker and Open Semifinalist (Karthik Palakodeti and Clement Tsao); Novice Champions (Neil He and John Wu); 4th Novice Speaker and Tied 6th ESL Speaker and Novice Finalists (Caylee Pan and Rohan Seelamsetty)
USC IV: Tied 5th Open Speaker and Semifinalist (Clement Tsao)
Cornell Novice Nationals: 3rd and 5th Open Speakers and Champions (Clement Tsao and Karthik Palakodeti); Semifinalist (Rohan Seelamsetty and Alexandros Kentouris)
United States Debating Championship: 4th Novice Speaker and Novice Champions (Clement Tsao and John Wu)
2023-2024 Season
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Harvard APDA: 10th Varsity Speaker, Top Novice Speaker, and Varsity Octofinalists (Justin Wibisono and Joshua Karouw) ; Varsity Octofinalists (Carina Li and Shaurya Singhi)
George Washington APDA Proams: 7th Varsity Speaker, 2nd Novice Speaker, and Varsity Quarterfinalists (Tori Ling and Sena Kim); Novice Cochampions (Musab Chummun and Pètra de Beer). Novice Cochampions (Charlotte Comstock and Felix Premrou). Novice Cochampions (Brady Keith and Jason Tu), Novice Cochampions (Ethan Roytman and Sylvie Turk)
UMD APDA: 8th Novice Speaker (Jason Tu)
Fordham APDA: Varsity Octofinalist (Rohan Ganesh); 4th Novice Speaker and Novice Finalists (Matthew Noriega and Musab Chummun); 6th Novice Speaker (Ethan Roytman)
Columbia APDA: Varsity Champion and 10th Varsity Speaker (Rohan Ganesh); Varsity Octofinalists (Carina Li and Hasit Nanda); 6th Novice Speaker and Novice Co-Champions (Jason Tu and Joshua Karouw); 9th Novice Speaker and Novice Co-Champions (Musab Chummun and Madeline Tsao); 5th Novice Speaker and Novice Semifinalist (Alexandra Uy-Tioco)
UChicago North American Championships: 8th Varsity Speaker, 1st Novice Speaker, 2nd Novice Speaker, and Varsity Octofinalists (Ashwin Laksumanage and Alexandra Uy-Tioco); Varsity Octofinalists (Gaurav Goel and Hasit Nanda)
Rutgers APDA: 6th Novice Speaker (Jason Tu)
NYU APDA Proams: Varsity Semifinalists (Alexandra Uy-Tioco and Hasit Nanda); 10th Novice Speaker and Novice Finalists (Jason Tu and Musab Chummun); ovice Semifinalists (Pètra de Beer and Viha Kedia)
Yale APDA: 5th Varsity Speaker, Top Novice Speaker, and Varsity Octofinalist (Ashwin Laksumanage)
Georgetown APDA: 3rd Varsity Speaker, Top Novice Speaker, and Varsity Quarterfinalist (Alexandra Uy-Tioco and Rohan Ganesh)
Cornell Novice Nationals: 4th and 5th Speakers and Grand Finalists (Alexandra Uy-Tioco and Jason Tu); 7th Speaker and Quarterfinalists (Gaurav Goel and Musab Chummun)
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United States Universities Debating Championships: 4th Novice Speaker, 7th Novice Speaker, and Varsity Semifinalists (Hasit Nanda and Maxwell DeLorenzo); Varsity Grandfinalist Judge (Claire Yu)
Ateneo IV: 2nd Varsity Speaker, 6th Varsity Speaker, and Grand Finalists (Alexandra Uy-Tioco and Ashwin Laksumanage); Varsity Semifinalists (Gaurav Goel and Jason Tu)
Linkbate Debating Championship: 7th Speaker and Semifinalists (Gaurav Goel and Musab Chummun)
Yale IV: 2nd Novice Speaker, 7th Novice Speaker, and Novice Champions (Ashwin Laksumanage and Alexandra Uy-Tioco); Novice Semifinalists (Rodin Bantawa and Viha Kedia); Novice Semifinalists (Yufei Gao and Zahra Kücük); Varsity Semifinalist Judge (Claire Yu)
2022-2023 Season
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North American Women and Gender Minorities Debating Championships Grand Finalists (Carina Li and Sage Mehta)
Yale IV Quarterfinalists and Top 5 Open Speakers (Maxwell Delorenzo and Hasit Nanda)
Yale IV Quarterfinalist and Top 10 Novice Speaker (Michael Chen)
Cornell IV Grand Finalists (Manya Gupta and Allan Lee)
UChicago APDA Grand Finalists and Top 10 Open Speaker (Allan Lee and Caitlin Kim)
UChicago APDA Semifinalists and Top 5 Open Speaker (Hasit Nanda and Carina Li)
Columbia APDA Octofinalists and Top 5 Novice Speaker (Ali Ahmad and Haley Son)
Columbia APDA Double Octofinalists and Top 5 Open Speaker (Jacob Cao and Hasit Nanda)
Rutgers APDA Top 10 Novice Speakers (Ali Ahmad)
Wellesley APDA Quarterfinalist and Top 5 Open Speakers (Hasit Nanda)
Yale APDA Quarterfinalist and Top 5 Open Speakers (Hasit Nanda)
GW Proams Novice Champions and Top 10 Novice Speaker (Jacob Cao and Hasit Nanda)
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US Universities Debating Championships Novice Champions (Helen Chau and Jake Peralta)
US Universities Debating Championships Semifinalists (Hasit Nanda and Maxwell Delorenzo)
2020-2021 Season
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Chris Porcaro APDA Award Recipient 2021 (Anish Welde)
5th Place Speaker of the Year (APDA) (Anish Welde)
4th Place Team at Rutgers / Yale (Online) (Tori Borlase and Anish Welde)
8th Place Speaker at Villanova II / Amherst (Online) (Vikram Balasubramanian)
3rd Place Speaker at Brown II / West Point / Boston College (Online) (Anish Welde)
5th Place Team at Brown II / West Point / Boston College (Online) (Anish Welde and Karthik Tadepalli)
Vice President of Finance 2021 (Tori Borlase)
4th Place Novice Speaker and finalists at USC IV (Allan Lee and Ben Yao)
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2019-2020 Season
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1st Novice of The Year (APDA) (Tvisha Malik)
2nd Speaker of The Year (APDA) (Anish Welde)
3rd Team of The Year (APDA) (Anish Welde and Vignesh Valliyur)
4th College of The Year
5th Novice of The Year (APDA) (Aashray Khanna)
15th Speaker of The Year (Vignesh Valliyur)
Champions of W&M 2019, Villanova 2019, and F&M 2020 (APDA) tournaments (Anish Welde and Vignesh Valliyur)
Champions of American ProAms 2019 (APDA) (Jaeyeon Kim and Karthik Tadepalli)
Member at Large of APDA Board (Anish Welde)
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World Universities Debating Championships Partial Double Octofinalists (Anish Welde and Vignesh Valliyur)
North American Debating Championships (NorthAms) Octofinalists (Vignesh Valliyur and Karthik Tadepalli)
2018-2019 Season
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11th College of the Year (APDA)
8th Speaker of the Year (APDA) (Alex Johnson)
Distinguished Service Award and President of the American Parliamentary Debate Association (Alex Johnson)
Winner of Georgetown APDA and Chicago APDA tournaments (Anish Welde)
President of APDA Board (Alex Johnson)
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World University Debating Championships 16th breaking team and Octafinalists (Anish Welde and Vijay Ramanujan)
World University Debating Championships Partial Double Octofinalists (Alex Johnson and Rishabh Tagore)
US National Debating Championships Quarterfinalists (Anish Welde and Vignesh Valliyur)
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Collaboration debate with the Economist and Bard Prison Initiative
2017-2018 Season
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8th College of the Year (APDA)
Best Novice of the Year (APDA) (Anish Welde)
6th Speaker of the Year (APDA) (Alex Johnson)
14th Team of the Year (APDA) (Alex Johnson and Stephanie Wu)
APDA Nationals Octafinalists (Anish Welde and Karthik Tadepalli)
Winner of Temple APDA tournament (Alex Johnson and Stephanie Wu) and Brandeis IV (Alex Johnson and Rishabh Tagore)
Top varsity speaker at CUNY (Alex Johnson)
Top novice speaker at Stanford APDA (Karthik Tadepalli), Rutgers APDA (Anish Welde), CUNY APDA (Anish Welde), American APDA (Gabriel Koo)
Member at Large of APDA Board (Alex Johnson)
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North American University Debate Championships semifinalists (Alex Johnson and Rishabh Tagore)
US National Debate Championships Quarterfinalists (Rishabh Tagore and Vijay Ramanujan); Octafinalists (Karthik Tadepalli and Stephanie Wu)
2016-2017 Season
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19th College of the Year (APDA)
7th Speaker of the Year (APDA) (Alex Johnson)
Winner of Georgetown APDA Tournament (Alex Johnson)
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World University Debating Championships Partial Double Octafinalists (Alex Johnson and Rishabh Tagore)
North American University Debate Championships Octafinalists (Alex Johnson and Rishabh Tagore)
2015-2016 Season
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2nd Speaker of The Year (APDA) (Kyle Grigel)
APDA Nationals Quarterfinals (Alex Johnson and Kyle Grigel)
18th College of The Year
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World Universities Debating Championships Partial Double Octofinalists (Kyle Grigel and Rishabh Tagore)
2014-2015 Season
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12th College of the Year (APDA)
5th Speaker of the Year (Kyle Grigel)
7th Team of the Year (Kyle Grigel and Dan Cobos)
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World University Debate Championships Partial Double Octafinalists (Kyle Grigel and Debi Ogunrinde)
Other Awards
World University Debate Championships Semifinalists (Brad Handler and Geoff Harrison) (1989)
World University Debate Championships Quarterfinalist (Peter Stris) (1997)
World University Debate Championships 23rd Breaking Team (Jackie Kornblum) (1988)
APDA National Champions (Liz Rogers and Peter Stris) (1996)