Congratulations to the following debaters who advanced to the semifinal round of IPDA debate. Those debates will take place tomorrow (Sunday, Feb 1st) at 11:00 am.

Senior IPDA Debate Semi-Finalist
University of California, Santa Barbara -- Atticus Gonzalez
University of California San Diego -- Avanthika Ramasamy
University of California San Diego -- Jacob Blair
University of California San Diego -- Trisha Sharma

Junior IPDA Debate Semi-Finalist
San Diego State University -- Avery Mitchell
University of California San Diego -- Caroline Jethmal
University of California San Diego -- Jasmine Lu
University of California San Diego -- Sarisha Agarwala

Novice IPDA Debate Semi-Finalist
Point Loma Nazarene University -- Japheth Russell
Point Loma Nazarene University -- Teagen Heise
University of California San Diego -- Carter Shea
University of California San Diego -- Olivia Buhler

Professional IPDA Debate Semi-finalists
Independent (Authentalk) -- Iain Lampert
Maverick Institute of Technology -- Luke Ryder
University of California San Diego -- Carter Castillo
University of California San Diego -- Felip Gerdes-Cabre

UPDATED SUNDAY SCHEDULE

8:00      Round 1: Pattern A Events (Ext Draw @ 8:00)
             Round 1: NPDA/TPDA Debate

9:30      Round 1: Pattern B Events
             Round 2: NPDA/TPDA Debate

11:00    Semifinals: IPDA Debate

12:00   LUNCH

12:30    Round 2: Pattern A Events (Ext Draw @ 12:30)
             Round 3: NPDA/TPDA Debate

2:00      Round 2: Pattern B Events
             Round 4: NPDA/TPDA Debate

3:30      Finals: IPDA Debate

4:30      Finals: Pattern A Events (Ext Draw @ 4:30)
             Bronze Round: NPDA/TPDA Debate

6:00      Finals: Pattern B Events
             Gold Round: NPDA/TPDA Debate

7:30      AWARDS

ASAP   Finals: Senior NPDA Debate

Dear Colleagues,

UCSD Speech and Debate cordially invites you to join us on our campus for our first-ever tournament, the Cove Classic. This will be held from January 31st to February 1st. We will offer Open, Junior, and Novice division competition in IPDA, NPDA, NFA-LD, all eleven AFA individual events, and Cultural Artifact (depending on entries). We will also offer a Pro division in IPDA and an Open division in TPDA.

This tournament is very special to us because it will honor our Vice President, Coach, friend, and brother, Sibi Sivaram. Sibi’s all-around love for both speech and debate events has inspired us to offer the “Sibi Sivaram Sweepstakes Award” in his honor to celebrate the student with the highest individual sweepstakes points.

Lunch will be offered on Saturday and Sunday for both competitors and judges, and an assortment of breakfast foods will be available for judges.

Please reach out to head coach AJ Edwards at aedwardsjr@ucsd.edu

(318-751-8350) or President Lillian Theis at ltheis@ucsd.edu (707-771-1324).

Sincerely,

UCSD Speech & Debate