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TOC 2019
Resolved: The United States ought not provide military aid to authoritarian regimes.
Finalists
Semifinalists
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Doubles
TOC Qualifiers
TOC 2018
Resolved: Plea bargaining ought to be abolished in the United States criminal justice system.
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Semifinalists
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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.
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Semifinalists
Newark CQ
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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
Palo Alto TC
Northland Christian SH
Octafinalists
Carlbrook CB (Carlton Bone)
Greenhill VA
Newark Science CQ
Scarsdale BU
Collegiate AO
Randolph NC
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
TOC 2013
Resolved: Rehabilitation ought to be valued above retribution in the United States criminal justice system.
Finalists
St. Louis Parks RS
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
Harrison DD
Octafinalists
Millburn YY
St. Louis Parks LS
Scarsdale SN
Carlbrook CB
Meadows EH
CESJDS EL
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
Cypress Woods JD (Jordan Durrani)
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy MA (Monica Amestoy)
Flower Mound JA and MG (Jacob Arnett and Matt Gmitro)
Independent BC (Brennan Caruthers)
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)
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
Strake Jesuit CS (Clay Spence)
Strake Jesuit JH (John Heizelman)
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
Quarterfinalists
Hendrick Hudson SR (Sophie Ruff)
Needham NL (Nate Lintz)
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)
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
Quarterfinalists
Glenbrook North PD
Indian Springs (Jeff Liu/Larry Liu)
Meadows JL
Octafinalists
Meadows NS
Northland Christian JR (Josh Roberts)
Whitman JK (Jane Kessner)
Whitman PG (Perry Green)
Winston Churchill CD
Runoffs / TOC Qualifiers
Battle Ground GJ
Iowa City West GT
TOC 2009
Resolved: The United States ought to submit to the jurisdiction of an international court designed to prosecute crimes against humanity.
Bronx MD
Edina BH
Los Altos DM
Meadows JL
Mountain View DG
Westlake DR