Home
Welcome to Circuit Debater 2, a resource where TOC qualifiers can post resources for younger debaters to learn from. Please refer to the names on the left to see debaters' resources.
Click here to create your own debater page.
Notice: If you are a debater whose page was on the old circuitdebater and you want to edit your page, please message Zachary Siegel because by default the wiki won't let you edit it.
TOC 2019
Resolved: The United States ought not provide military aid to authoritarian regimes.
Finalists
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
Octafinalists
Doubles
TOC Qualifiers
TOC 2018
Resolved: Plea bargaining ought to be abolished in the United States criminal justice system.
Finalists
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
Octafinalists
Doubles
TOC Qualifiers
TOC 2017
Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech.
Finalists
Hunter College NP (Nina Potischman)
Semifinalists
Millard North GB (Grant Brown)
Cambridge Rindge and Latin OS (Oliver Sussman)
Quarterfinalists
Octafinalists
Brentwood RY (Ryan Younger)
Harvard-Westlake SP (Spencer Paul)
Doubles
Lake Highland MK & AA (Muhammad Khattak & Ari Azbel)
St. Andrew's Episcopal IB (Ishan Bhatt)
Scarsdale GZ (Gillian Zipursky)
Peninsula JL (Jonas Le Barillec)
TOC Qualifiers
Stuyvesant KF (Katherine Fennell)
Lexington NB (Nirmal Balachundhar)
Pembroke Pines SS (Stephen Scopa)
TOC 2016
Resolved: In the United States, private ownership of handguns ought to be banned.
Finalists
Harvard-Westlake NS (Nick Steele)
Semifinalists
Harvard-Westlake CC (Cameron Cohen)
Quarterfinalists
Mission San Jose SS (Shivane Sabharwal)
Millard North GB (Grant Brown)
Mission San Jose LS (Lavanya Singh)
Octafinalists
Lake Highland MC (Michael Corder)
Lake Highland NK (Sreya)
Byram Hills PE (Paul Erlanger)
Strake Jesuit CP (Sean McCormick)
Lexington AS (Achal Srinivasan)
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
TOC 2015
Resolved: Just governments ought to pay employers a living wage.
Finalists
Semifinalists
Newark CQ
Quarterfinalists
Octafinalists
Cypress Bay JS
Newark AF
Clements RG
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
BASIS Scottsdale CD (Connor Davis)
TOC 2014
Resolved: Developing countries should prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction when the two are in conflict.
Finalists
Harrison DD (Danny Debois)
Loyola CK (Chris Kymn)
Semifinalists
SLP LS
Walt Whitman JL
Quarterfinalists
PV Peninsula AT (Arjun Tambe)
La Jolla RP (Ram Prasad)
Palo Alto TC
Northland Christian SH
Octafinalists
PV Peninsula AJ (Akhil Jalan)
Sacred Heart AT (Adam Tomasi)
Carlbrook CB (Carlton Bone)
Greenhill VA
Newark Science CQ
Scarsdale BU
Collegiate AO
Randolph NC
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
Ridge JW (Jack Wilson)
Delbarton RT (Ryan Teehan)
Los Altos SD (Salim Damerdji)
PV Peninsula JZ (James Zhang)
Westlake DB (Drew Burd)
TOC 2013
Resolved: Rehabilitation ought to be valued above retribution in the United States criminal justice system.
Finalists
Greenhill RK (Rebecca Kuang)
St. Louis Parks RS
Semifinalists
PV Peninsula DT and HZ
Quarterfinalists
Sacred Heart AT (Adam Tomasi)
Loyola MH (Michael Harris)
Lexington AH (Adam Hoffman)
Harrison DD
Octafinalists
La Jolla RP (Ram Prasad)
Millburn YY
St. Louis Parks LS
Scarsdale SN
Carlbrook CB
Meadows EH
CESJDS EL
Jesuit JH
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
Okoboji JA (Jack Ave)
Cypress Woods JD (Jordan Durrani)
Kent Denver SM (Sam Mathews)
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy MA (Monica Amestoy)
Flower Mound JA and MG (Jacob Arnett and Matt Gmitro)
Independent BC (Brennan Caruthers)
Brophy College Prep SR (Samir Reddy)
Fordham Prep DJ (David Joannides)
TOC 2012
Resolved: It is morally permissible for victims to use deadly force as a deliberate response to repeated domestic violence.
Finalists
Lexington NS (Noah Star)
Semifinalists
Aliso Niguel RG (Regan Grishaber)
Stuyvesant AE (Andrew Eckholm)
Quarterfinalists
Loyola Blakefield TC (Tom Cameron)
Suncoast Community High School CB (Carlton Bone)
Greenhill School (Farhan Damani and Rebecca Kuang
Octafinalists
Greenhill School (Farhan Damani and Rebecca Kuang
PV Peninsula HZ and DT (Henry Zhang and Daniel Tartakovsky)
Evanston EB (Erik Baker)
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
Strake Jesuit CS (Clay Spence)
Strake Jesuit JH (John Heizelman)
Bainbridge AT (Alex Teiche)
Mountain View MM (Max McCarthy)
Starr's Mill JN (Jacob Nails)
TOC 2011
Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged with violent felonies ought to be treated as adults in the criminal justice system.
Finalists
Indian Springs JL and LL (Jeff and Larry Liu)
Semifinalists
Walt Whitman DI (Daniel Imas)
University MF (Mike Fried)
Quarterfinalists
Hendrick Hudson SR (Sophie Ruff)
Needham NL (Nate Lintz)
University JT (Josh Tupler)
Octafinalists
Brentwood CW (Cory Wynn)
Northland Christian JR (Josh Roberts)
Meadows NS (Nate Socolof)
Harvard Westlake JS (Jake Sonnenberg)
PV Peninsula DT (Daniel Tartakovsky)
Berkeley Carroll DS (Dylan Scher)
Mercer Island SA (Steven Adler)
Rancho Bernardo PK (Paras Kumar)
TOC 2010
Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged with violent felonies ought to be treated as adults in the criminal justice system.
Finalists
St. Louis Park CT (Catherine Tarsney)
Valley (Ross Brown and Matt Kawahara)
Semifinalists
Harvard Westlake JS
Whitman BL (Ben Lewis)
Quarterfinalists
Blake EL
Glenbrook North PD
Indian Springs (Jeff Liu/Larry Liu)
Meadows JL
Octafinalists
Greenhill TT
Meadows NS
Northland Christian JR (Josh Roberts)
Scarsdale ET (Eric Thurm)
Whitman JK (Jane Kessner)
Whitman PG (Perry Green)
Winston Churchill CD
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
Battle Ground GJ
Crowley DL (Daniel Lumpee)
Iowa City West GT
Whitman AZ (Alex Zimmerman)
TOC 2009
Resolved: The United States ought to submit to the jurisdiction of an international court designed to prosecute crimes against humanity.
Apple Valley CT
Bronx MD
Edina BH
Greenhill DS
Los Altos DM
Meadows JL
Mountain View DG
Scarsdale KH and MM
St. Louis Park CT
Strake Jesuit PT
Trinity Prep JN
Upper St. Clair JG
Valley RB
Walt Whitman BL
Westlake DR