Top 50 of 2009

The TOC Scoreboard has had a great first semester and we’re happy to announce the top fifty teams from the first semester of the 2009-2010 debate season.  All rankings are based on the National Debate Coaches Association’s Baker Award standings.

  1. Whitney Young (IL) – Kevin Hirn & Misael Gonzalez
  2. Kinkaid School (TX) – Nikhil Bontha & Layne Kirshon
  3. Westminster Schools (GA) – Ellis Allen & Daniel Taylor
  4. Woodward Academy (GA) – Matthew Pesce & Max Plithides
  5. Bronx Science (NY) – Andrew Markoff & Zack Elias
  6. Glenbrook South (IL) – Richard Day & Will Thibeau
  7. McDonogh (MD) – Alex Resar & Patrick Butler
  8. Georgetown Day (DC) – Rebecca Rothfield & Isaac Stanley-Becker
  9. Chattahoochee (GA) – Kaavya Ramesh & Megan Cambre
  10. Westlake (TX) – David Mullins & John Baker
  11. Oak Park River Forest (IL) – James Hanley & John Hazinski
  12. Damien (CA) – Reid Ehlrich Quinn & Pablo Gannon
  13. Westminster (GA) – Ayush Dayal & Julia Marshall
  14. Edina (MN) – Trevor Aufderheide & Nick Khatri
  15. Glenbrook North (IL) – Flynn Makuch & Alex Pappas
  16. Montgomery Bell (TN) – Herschel Mehta & Campbell Haynes
  17. Rowland Hall St. Marks (UT) – Mario Feola & Andrew Arsht
  18. Carrollton School of Sacred Heart (FL) – Anna Dimitrijevic & Helen Gomez
  19. New Trier (IL) – Dylan Carpenter & Ira Slmoski-Pritz
  20. Pembroke Hill (MO) – Thomas Hodgman & Peter Vale
  21. Pembroke Hill (MO) – Brad Bolman & Lewis Sharp
  22. Lexington(MA) – Tyler Engler & Arjun Vellayappan
  23. Glenbrook South (IL) – Samantha Varney & Phil Sailer
  24. Bishop Guertin (NH) – Katie DiTullio & Christian Steckler
  25. Dallas Jesuit (TX) – Ryan Gorman & Joel Diamond
  26. Wayzata (MN) – Krishnan Ramanujan & Dru Svoboda
  27. Greenhil (TX) – Arnav Kejriwal & Kush Patel
  28. St. Paul Central (MN) – Laura Johnson & Steve Quam
  29. St. Marks (TX) – Rishee Batra & Alex Miles
  30. Mountain Brook (AL) – Kevin Jiang & Lee Quinn
  31. Glenbrook North (IL) – Alexis Shklar & Vinay Sridharan
  32. Westminster (GA) – Will Morgan & Drew Cutshaw
  33. Beacon (NY) – Damiyr Davis & Miguel Feliciano
  34. Cathedral Prep (PA) – Colin McElhinny & Kevin Ward
  35. Glenbrook South (IL) – Jack McLeod & John Zhao
  36. College Prep (CA) – Vinay Pai & Tatsuro Yamamura
  37. Grapevine (TX) – Jacob Quinn & Amy Schade
  38. Homewood Flossmoor (IL) – Donald Grasse & Astead Herndon
  39. Edgemont (NY) – Benjamin Chang & Nikhil Jayawickrama
  40. Chattahoochee (GA) – Mustafa Inamullah & Maggie Davis
  41. Dallas Jesuit (TX) – Carson Young & Sean McCormick
  42. Chattahoochee (GA) – Jeff Zhang & Matt Rosenthal
  43. College Prep (CA) – Chloe Coughlin-Schulte & Justin Mardjuki
  44. Damien (CA) – Alex Velto & Nadeem Farooqi
  45. Highland Park (TX) – Collin Poirot & Rhett Young
  46. Lexington (MA) – Amrit Kanesa-Thasan & Ayan Sanyal
  47. Eden Prairie (MN) – Brett Beutell & Tanay Mehta
  48. Meadows (NV) – Spencer Silbey & Jess Mitchell
  49. Georgetown Day School (DC) – Ben Levy & Joe Krakoff
  50. Baltimore City College (MD) – William Stokes & Nicholas Vail

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  1. Trevor Aufderheide says:
    December 29, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    Numbers 23 and 26 on the list are the same team

  2. jeffrey miller says:
    December 29, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    Thanks – And I’ve fixed it.

  3. pacrankings says:
    December 29, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    Can you post the top 50 of 2009, using only the top 5 tournaments for each team?

  4. pacrankings says:
    January 1, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    Teams that have zero bids are ranked within the top 25…this list is rewards people for going to schools with a large travel budget instead of actually winning elim rounds. That’s not an accurate description of the “Top 50…” even if it might become more accurate as you approach the top 5/10, you should put out a list of such a large number of teams unless you’re willing to rank them in an precise fashion.

  5. Jeffrey Miller says:
    January 2, 2010 at 10:59 am

    I will defend the Bishop Guertin’s, Glenbrook South SV’s, Homewood Flossmoor GH’s, and any other “no-bid” teams in the top 50. I’m pretty sure that Bishop Guertin DS has one of the highest totals of bid rounds this year. If I’m not mistaken, they are at 7 bid rounds. Although they have zero bids — they still have reached those bid rounds, unlike most national teams. So yes, they’re just as good and if not better than some of these other teams who may have only won 1 lucky bid round somewhere. The same goes for GBS and HoFlo.

    The problem with your logic is assuming that a team who travels to 1 tournament and wins it, should be automatically ranked over a team who has traveled to 5-7 tournamnets and reached quarters at every tournament… this is not true. I would argue that the team that has attended those tournaments could probably beat that random team who’s been to one place mainly because of experience and things they’ve learned on the circuit thus far.

    Additionally, I think that you should not always post as “Anonymous” or even your pen name “PacRankings.” Man up and reveal your name – because right now you just sound like a bitter high school student who’s jealous because your name isn’t on the list.

  6. Jeffrey Miller says:
    January 2, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    1 last thing – Bishop Guertin and GBS would still be in the top 30-35 I think if we only counted their top five tournaments.

  7. sheatsb says:
    January 2, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    Two things –

    1 – pacrankings – To ask the same question in every available channel (when we have a policy about such things) is rude and time consuming.

    2 – I’m with Jeff – Your logic is flawed here. To follow your logic would be akin to throwing out most methodology of running even a basic tournament and reward flukes.

    3 – Anonymous comments are now banned.

  8. amiles says:
    January 11, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    is the list going to be updtaed post mba?

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