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This year’s South Carolina Forensic Coaches Associatin State Tournament featured a first-time winner as Roann Abdeladi of Greenville Tech Charter High School captured the championship by five ranks over Unshu Biyani of Riverside High School. The victory is the first for Greenville Tech, with Abdeladi thwarting Riverside’s effort to have back-to-back winners after Nida Ansari won last year’s title.
The tournament was cumulatively tabbed, with a competitors preliminary, semi-final, and finals rankings factoring into their total score. Abdeladi won the final round with a composite score of six versus Biyani’s score of nine. Fifth place finisher Jordan Childs of Riverside also finished the final round with a total of nine ranks.
Andrew P. Clater of Bob Jones Academy finished third.
All of the finalists earned an automatic qualification to the 2015 Extemp TOC at Northwestern University.
Here are the results of the 2015 South Carolina Forensic Coaches Association State Tournament (Click here for tab sheet):
Champion: Roann Abdeladi (Greenville Tech Charter High School, South Carolina)
2nd: Unshu Biyani (Riverside High School, South Carolina)
3rd: Andrew P. Clater (Bob Jones Academy, South Carolina)
4th: Jared Boggs (Riverside High School, South Carolina)
5th: Jordan Childs (Riverside High School, South Carolina)
6th: Elliot X. Lin (Riverside High School, South Carolina)
Semi-Finalists
*Jordan Childs (Riverside High School, South Carolina)
*Carter Henderson (Bob Jones Academy, South Carolina)
*Sandeep Kattepogu (Bob Jones Academy, South Carolina)
*Ronak Malde (Southside High School, South Carolina)
*Brant Safrit (Riverside High School, South Carolina)
*Kevin Tian (Southside High School, South Carolina)
Extemp Central thanks the South Carolina Forensic Coaches Association for putting the results of the tournament online.