Here are the results of the eleventh annual Columbia Invitational, held on January 21-23, 2011 in New York, New York. The tournament was an Extemp TOC qualifier and all elimination round participants earned TOC bids. Thanks to Vinay Viswanathan for providing us with the names of the elimination round participants and to the Columbia tabroom for posting the results of the tournament online.
Champion: Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
2nd: Audrey Denis (The Berkeley Carroll School, New York)
3rd: Ben Constine (Yorktown High School, Virginia)
4th: Lauren Moore (Cary Academy, North Carolina)
5th: Ana Guay (Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York)
6th: Ryan Cunningham (Fullerton Union High School, California)
Semi-Finalists
*Joe Calder (Cary Academy, North Carolina)
*Shreyas Havaldar (Half Hollow Hills High School, New York)
*Justin Kieran (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
*Miranda Lupion (Half Hollow Hills High School, New York)
*Sneha Walia (Shrewsbury High School, Massachusetts)
*Jolie Yu (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
Quarter-Finalists
*Gil Avramovich (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
*Jeffery Bilik (Stuyvesant High School, New York)
*Stephen Buell (Regis High School, New York)
*Paulina Dedaj (The Ursuline School, New York)
*Kerry Ditson (Shrewsbury High School, Massachusetts)
*Tyler Fisher (Half Hollow Hills High School, New York)
*Johncarlo Giambrone (Regis High School, New York)
*Justin Kelly (Regis High School, New York)
*Nora Matti (Fullerton Union High School, California)
*Jesse Mishra (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
*Camille Petersen (Villa Walsh Academy, New Jersey)
*Christopher Siemer (Regis High School, New York)
*Daniel Smith (Cary Academy, North Carolina)
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The final round was weird. Each speaker chose a political figure, and then had to answer a policy question AS that figure. It made for some very interesting speeches.