BC Speech and Debate

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Our Team had the great opportunity to be represented at the highest level of debate competitions, the 2020 World Universities Debating Championship hosted at Assumption University in Thailand! Incredibly proud and humbled of the team for having worked to get this chance for the first time ever. A special thanks to the team of Chrismal Abraham & Lakshay Khosla and our coach Trevor Colliton for working hard to represent us and perform well at this tough competition.

We are delighted to see our team put up another great performance this weekend for the Off-Broadway Swing speech tournament at Nassau. Proud of everyone performing at this tournament and a special shoutout to our new member Maya Ardon for getting 4th place in Dramatic Interpretation at her first college tournament, our treasurer Hamza Khilji for placing 6th in impromptu speaking, and our speech captain Annalissa Thomas for placing 6th in poetry interpretation!

Highlighting the month of November is a great performance by our team at Huber Debates at the University of Vermont. Congrats to the entire team and a special shout out to our President Lakshay Khosla for ranking amongst the top 25 speakers at this tournament!

The veterans of this team dominated this weekend at the Speech Tournament in Lafayette College 🏆

Congrats to the following for their performance:
1. Annalissa Thomas for 3rd place in Informative Speech and 5th place in poetry
2. Hamza Khilji for 4th place in After Dinner Speaking and 6th place in Impromptu Speech
3. Zain Qureshi for 5th place in Impromptu Speech
4. Lakshay Khosla for being a supportive judge

We honored Seniors Josiah James and Navin Rana at our Senior Sendoff Dinner. These two individuals have represented our team, led us, and showed large amounts of dedication throughout the last 4 years. We thank them and everyone for coming out to support them 😊

Our team was spectacular as they competed in a speech tournament and a debate tournament at Salt Lake City, Utah last weekend. We are incredibly proud of all our competitors for bringing out their A game and representing Brooklyn College. Our team was able to rank amongst the top teams at both tournaments 💪! A special shout out goes out to two members who won us awards:

1. Lakshay Khosla for placing 4th place in impromptu speaking and 5th place in extemporaneous speaking!

2. Zenab Jamil for placing 4th place in informative speech and 6th place in extemporaneous speaking!

Wow! With another weekend completed, the BC Speech and Debate Team competed in two separate tournaments!

One was at Brandeis University, where we had three teams go head to head with the best Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. had to offer as this was the last major prep tournament before the World Universities Debate Championships. All the schools brought their A-game and it was fun!

The second tournament was at Nassau Community College where our speech side competed in the Off-Broadway Swing. Our members did extremely well as usual against our many local rival schools!

As these were our last competitions for the semester, we would like to thank everyone who supported us and everyone who joined our family! :)

What a fantastic weekend! This weekend, the BC Speech and Debate Team was in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the UBC IV 2018 Tournament. 15 people, including 6 teams and 3 judges were there! It was a pleasure to be the only East coast team there.

Novice debaters Corrinne Greene and Carlos J. Calzadilla-Palacio won 2nd place in the Novice Finals! In addition, Josiah James was the top speaker from Brooklyn College! Huge congrats to them for repping BC!!!!

Moreover, novice judge Loren Hernandez chaired a round and broke to finals as an adjudicator, in addition to our coach Trevor Colliton! Our other teams were very close/on the brink of breaking. Very proud of everyone!

What a weekend it was! 13 members of the Brooklyn College Speech and Debate team attended the annual Yale IV British Parliamentary Tournament. It is one of the largest and most competitive tournaments we attend. We are very proud of all of our novice teams for coming out, competing, and doing a fantastic job for their first tournament. Special shoutouts to:

-Senior Navin Rana for having the honor of chairing the
judging panel for the last round.
-Juniors Lakshay Khosla and Hamza Khilji for being the
best team out of BC, as they scored the highest points
as a team out of BC and also the highest points
ever scored by a BC team at this competition.
-Novice teams Chrismal Abraham and Zahra Khan for
being the top novice team out of BC.

Thank you to EVERYONE who came out to the Involvement Fair this past week. The event was a great SUCCESS and we got to get a taste of how talented our BC Campus is! For those who signed up with us at the fair, and for those who are already on our mailing list, look out for an E-mail coming soon about our Interest Meeting (SEPT. 13 - Common Hours) and other misc. information!

IF you were not able to attend the fair, and we do not have your e-mail, PLEASE send us an email at [email protected] and we'd love to have you join our team.

Hey Ya'll! I hope everyone is having an absolutely fantastic summer thus far! As the beginning of the semester draws near, I am proud to announce that we have been working very hard to get some really awesome tournaments lined up for everyone to take part in!

Just a sneak peek of some tournaments coming up:

HWS IV on September 28-30, 2018
Yale IV on October 26-28, 2018

Also: we will be having our FIRST interest meeting very soon. If you have not already, make sure you email [email protected] so that we can add you to our mailing list and send you all the information you'll need.

Stay HYPED! Speech and Debate is going to be in FULL swing very soon!

Interested in joining debate? It's not too late to join! Just private message us your email address and we'll add you to our mailing list

We had an outstanding tournament this past weekend at Hofstra University. Congrats to Hamza Khilji who got 6th in extemp and impromptu speaking and Jerryl Abraham who won 2nd in extemp and 3rd in impromptu!

We have open slots for our speech tournaments at Hofstra and Ottawa. Hit us up if you're interested. Message us now!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Practice today 12:30 Jefferson William Lounge. If you are interested in any competitions in December or January PLEASE stop by today!

If you would like to compete with us at Yale you must email us by noon tomorrow. [email protected]

Speech practice is tomorrow at 12:30. Jefferson Williams 4th floor SUBO

Our novices after a long weekend of debate at the University of Toronto. Congrats on a spectacular performance!

We are proud to announce that we will be representing Brooklyn at the 2017 Yale IV tournament October 27-29! Come out to practice this Thursday at common hours to find out more and sign up to compete.
Jefferson Williams lounge-4th Floor SUBO

Debate practice is today at 6:30pm Occidental lounge of SUBO

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Tryouts today at SUBO, 5th floor, Occidental lounge. Common Hours. Be there!!!!

Tryouts today at SUBO, 5th floor, Occidental lounge. Common Hours. Be there!!!!

Thursday 9/7 Tryouts Sign Up | Wejoinin

Day 1 of tryouts over, thank you for those of you who came today! It was nice to see a great turnout 😊. If you were not able to make it, don't worry!! The next round of tryouts will be this Thursday in the Occidental Lounge in SUBO (5th Floor). Make sure to come if you're interested!!!!
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Tuesday 9/5 Tryouts Sign Up | Wejoinin

Happy Labor Day!! Thank you everyone for coming out to the interest meetings, we hope we were able to answer all your questions. If you could not attend, please watch the live streams!

TRYOUTS ARE THIS WEEK!!! Again, tryouts are simply to place everyone who wants to be a part of the team in their respective categories, and for the team to establish everyone's level of comfort and experience within the chosen category. IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND TRYOUTS, YOU MUST CHOSE A TIME-SLOT!! TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH AND THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH DURING COMMON HOURS!!!!! BE THERE!!!
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If you can't make the scheduled tryouts times just send us a message and we'll schedule a time that fits for you. Remember: if you try out you're officially on the team! Everyone be sure to come out!

Our live stream is down but feel free to ask questions here and we'll answer them.

Interest meeting during common hours -leddy room, 4th floor Student center!!