Dear Debate Community,
We recognize that running a program that consists of competitors attending different schools from across the United States presents significant logistic and competitive hurdles for tournament directors and our colleagues. The purpose of this webpage is to clearly articulate relevant Club Team policies.
We expect our coaches and students to maintain high standards of conduct at tournaments and respect their competitors and judges. Each student has full-text linked our Code of Conduct and Harassment/Bullying policies on their wiki entries. You can additionally access the full-text of our policy here and report incidents here.
All DebateDrills students will open-source disclose constructive positions and provide round reports after debates. Students may occasionally forget due to post-round logistics and human error (e.g. short turnaround time for next debate, flight to catch). If this happens, please email us at support@debatedrills.com and we will troubleshoot.
Pre-round, we will disclose the affirmative 30 minutes before the debate and ask our colleagues to do the same. If it is a new aff (meaning it has not been read by anyone on DebateDrills), we will say “new aff” and will not disclose any portion of the affirmative. You can read the full-text of our policy here.
When tournaments have an entourage rule, we will ensure all DebateDrills coaches are registered as an entourage for our top debater(s). Our students are required to avoid using their parents or other lay judges to fulfill judging requirements barring exceptional circumstances. You can read the full-text of our policy here.
As part of our commitment to transparency, we will err on the side of caution to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. This document contains the official DebateDrills MJP and conflict guidelines we require students to abide by at any given tournament. It also contains a roster of students on our team. While we will strive to check every single conflict to ensure that we are constantly leading the charge in best practices, it is possible we will occasionally make mistakes. If you have any concerns about who is judging our students at any time, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Warmly,
DebateDrills Leadership
support@debatedrills.com
“I think the real test should be this and the question is a simple one. Did you or persons with whom work closely have a direct and/or regular influence on or presence with the preparation, development, articulation, and presentation of arguments for this competitor for this tournament or tournaments within this competitive season… that they may use for this tournament? If the answer to that question is "yes," then you need to conflict yourself from judging those competitors. If you did not do those things, then there should be no conflict.”
- Dave Houston, April 22nd, 2018
In the spirit of this email sent before the 2018 Tournament of Champions:
Every DebateDrills student will be required to conflict an independent coach any DebateDrills teammate brings to any given tournament. By way of example, if Student A has Person X coaching them privately in addition to the DebateDrills Coaching Staff, every other student at the tournament must conflict Person X at said tournament. For further clarity, if DebateDrills Club Team Member Rex Evans (Santa Monica RE ’19) hires coach Cameron Baghai privately in addition to the DebateDrills Club Team Coaching staff, and, Rex decides to bring Cameron to Tournament Y, all other DebateDrills students at Tournament Y must conflict Cameron Baghai, regardless of any previous affiliation with Cameron.
If any DebateDrills student hires a judge at any given tournament solely to fulfill the tournament’s judging obligation requirement, other students attending said tournament may not conflict said judge given that the judge isn’t coaching the student in question. By way of example, if DebateDrills Club Team Student Tej Gedela (Enloe TG ’19) hires Tara Norris to fulfill a judging obligation at Tournament Z, no other DebateDrills student attending Tournament Z may conflict Tara Norris.
All previous DebateDrills Club Team Coaches will be conflicted from judging DebateDrills students’ until they no longer have a relationship to any student on this year’s roster. By way of example, if Paras Kumar worked on the Club Team from 2016-2018, Paras may only judge students affiliated with DebateDrills after there are no students on DebateDrills’ current roster from Paras’ tenure with DebateDrills.
All previous DebateDrills students who graduate from our Club Team and then judge on the national circuit will be conflicted from judging DebateDrills’ students they were teammates with.
Name
School Code
Other Coaching
Aarnav Agrawal
Monta Vista AA
N/A
Aaryaman Singh
Cupertino High School AS
NA
Aayush Nitesh Gandhi
Dublin High AG
N/A
Abhinav Kasturi
Los Altos AK
NA
Aditya Shetty
Southlake Carroll AS
Anthony Brown anthony.brown@southlakecarroll.edu
Alexander Lu
Wayland AL
NA
Amanda Yu
Stanford OHS AY
Kristen Sullivan ksullivan@stanford.edu
Amelie Calamia
Lake Washington AC
NA
Andrew Jiang
Richard Montgomery AJ
N/A
Andrew Kim
Bergen County Academies AK
Christopher Russo
Anish Thota
Charlotte Latin AT
Bilal Butt
Ansh Khurana
Providence AK
NA
Arnav Garg
Saratoga AG
Steve Clemmons - sclemmons@hotmail.com
Arushi Dinker
Mission San Jose AD
NA
Audrey Bae
Fullerton Union AB
Tarin Almstedt talmstedt@fjuhsd.org
Chloe Taena Chun
Brophy CC
Maanik Chotalla mchotalla@brophyprep.org
David Hain
West Boca High DH
NA
David Lopez
Carrollwood Day School DL
N/A
Ella Min
Amador Valley High School EM
NA
Emily Lin
Valley International Prep EL
NA
Emma Wu
Friends Academy
NA
Esha Verma
Saratoga EV
Steve Clemmons sclemmons@hotmail.com
Evan Run Hua Li
Charlotte Latin EL
Bilal Butt bilal.butt@charlottelatin.org
Felicity Zhang
Concord Carlisle FZ
NA
Jason Kuo
BASIS Independent School Silicon Valley JK
NA
Jhanvi Wong
Millburn JW
N/A
Jocelyn Sun
N/A
NA
Jonathan Cheng
Basis Independent Silicon Valley JC
NA
Katherine Chen
Amador Valley High School KC
NA
Keshav Rastogi
Monta Vista KR
NA
Lauren Chin
Stuyvesant LC
Julie Sheinman stuy4n6@gmail.com
Maxwell Mao
Millburn MM
NA
Nathan Liu
Millard North NL
Dylan Sutton djsutton@mpsomaha.org
Neha Subramani
Dougherty Valley NS
NA
Nishanth Gaddam
Charlotte Latin NG
Bilal Butt
Philip Dai
William G. Enloe PD
Callie Beck
Raina Batra
Livingston RB
NA
Rohit Dayanand
Monta Vista RD
NA
Salma Noor Gheith
Horace Greeley SM
Thomas Witmer
Shane Masterson
Palisades Charter SM
NA
Sofia Millerman
Chapin SM
Emily Feder efeder@chapin.edu
Sophia Dong
Lovejoy SD
NA
Sophie O'Brien
Hunter SO
NA
Sumedha Kota
Miramonte SK
Kristen Plant
Timothy Jiang
Brophy TJ
Maanik Chotalla mchotalla@brophyprep.org
Tobias Hou
Unsure
Unknown
Viren Mehta
Oxford VM
NA
Vivian Wiemelt
Meadow Glen Academy
NA
Yeriel Kim
The Overlake School
Robin Monteith, rmonteith@overlake.org
Conflict Name
Reason
Ben Waldman
Coach
Christian Han
Coach
Advay Chandra
Coach
Jonathan Jeong
Coach
Pranav Kaginele
Coach
Parker Traxler
Coach
Sarah Li
Coach
Samantha McLoughlin
Coach
Tej Gedela
Coach
Bea Culligan
Coach
Prince Hyeamang
Director of Finance
Amit Kukreja
Former Coach
Jong Hak Won
Former Coach
Nina Potischman
Former Coach
Katherine Fennell
Former Coach
Emma Blum
Former Coach
Rishabh Shah
Former Coach
Daniel Luo
Former Coach
Conner Engel
Former Coach
Lindsey Dahms-Nolan
Former Coach
Raunak Dua
Former Coach
David Asafu-Adjaye
Coach
Ethan Elasky
Coach
Jackson Hanna
Coach
Simran Gandhi
Former Coach
Amrita Chakladar
Coach
Whit Jackson
Former Coach
Lucas Clarke
Former Coach
Raffi Piliero
Former Coach
Elyssa Alfieri
Former Coach
Paras Kumar
Manager