MBA Debate Continues Super Season

On Lake Michigan in northern Chicago, two Varsity policy teams took on 170 teams at the Glenbrooks Invitational, the biggest tournament of the Fall. After 7 preliminary rounds, MBA's Atticus Glen and Liam Jameson were seeded 11th, and Andrew Kaplan and Ben Rosenthal were undefeated and seeded 1st.

Facing off against teams from Dallas, Los Angeles, Georgia, and San Francisco, Kaplan and Rosenthal only lost one ballot on their way to facing their rival Peninsula High School from California and beating them in the finals on a 3-0 decision. The duo followed that impressive win two days later by taking home the title at the exclusive Glenbrooks Round Robin, where Kaplan and Rosenthal would have to face consecutively the 6 best teams in the country. Taking on two more days of debate, though, Andrew and Ben showed their mettle, and won 5 out of 6 debates to win 1st place there as well, effectively cementing their place as the top team in the country.

At the Westminster School in Georgia, the team succeeded at all levels. In the JV division, the team of Alex Kalams and Tanuj Koli won, with Koli earning 1st speaker. Placing 3rd were John Raulston Graham and Thomas Zeuthen. In Varsity, the squad had four teams in the Sweet Sixteen and two in the Elite Eight, including  John Cooper, Ben Jablonski, Aden Barton, Julian Habermann, Sam Funk, Jack Rankin, Jack Harrington, and William Bradford. They also swept the individual speaker awards, with Jablonski, Cooper, and Barton winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively.