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The Alan Nichols College Debate Tournament

The Alan Nichols college debate tournament is named for the longtime former director of the TDS. The tournament is held each year on December 29-31. The field is a talented collection of teams of across the nation in both open division and JV competition. The tournament features seven preliminary rounds of competition on the national CEDA-NDT topic. This archive collects results from past Nichols tournaments.

2006 Results

Finals

Kansas BJ (A) def. Idaho State MY 3-0 (Ceren, Pointer, Arnett)

Semifinals

Kansas BJ def. Cal BS 3-0 (Ramachandrappa, Klinger, Powers)
Idaho State MY def. Wayne State (A) (Spring, Tarloff, McBride*)

Quarterfinals Results

Kansas BJ def. UGA (A) CR 3-0 Arnett Hall Stahl
Wayne MT def. Harvard MR (A) 2-1 D'Amico Lacy Spring*
Idaho State MY (A) def. Harvard AM Hardy Johnson Morales
California BS def. Northwestern CS (A) 2-1 Blank Klinger Lee*

Octafinal Results

UGA CR def. MSU DR (A) 3-0 Achten Blank Spring
Wayne MT (A) def. California LP 2-1 Lacy Olney Souders*
Harvard AM (A) def. Wake Forest LP 2-1 Mancuso* Morales Morris
Northwestern CS def. Michigan FK (A) 2-1 Garner Klinger* Ramachandrappa
California BS def. Harvard LP (A) 2-1 Buntin* Hamrick Stahl
Idaho State MY (A) def. Whitman RS 3-0 D'Amico Gonzalez McBride
Harvard MR def. CSU Fullerton (A) 2-1 Lee Patrice* Turner
Kansas BJ def. Emory HH (A) 2-1 Hall* Hardy Tarloff

Double Octa-Finals Results

UGA CR def. Liberty CK 2-1 Mancuso* Perkins Spring
Wayne MT def. Texas TW 3-0 Gorelick Moore Olney
Harvard AM def. CSU Fullerton MP 3-0 Jordan Lee Pointer
Northwestern CS def. Missouri State WW 3-0 Feldman Gonzalez Kephart
Harvard LP advanced over Harvard KK
Idaho State MY def. California BR 2-1 Buntin Garner* Patrice
CSU Fullerton MM def. Wake Forest CC 3-0 Arnett Hall Turner
Emory HH def. Michigan State BA 3-0 Davis Hamrick Powers
Kansas BJ def. Northwestern BW 2-1 Reddy* Stahl Watson
Harvard MR def. Miami MV 2-1 Baxter-Kauf, Katie* Morales Morris
Whitman RS advanced over Whitman MM
California BS def. Missouri State MO 2-1 Burke Ceren Ramahcandrappa*
Michigan FK def. Loyola AM 3-0 Coulter Lacy Strauss
Wake Forest LP def. George Washington RW Achten Hoe Souders*
California LP def. Wake Forest GL 3-0 Hardy Klinger Vats
Michigan State DR def. Dartmouth HK 3-0 Blank Johnson Strait

OPEN Speaker Awards

1. Murillo (Wayne State)
2. Montes (Fullerton)
3. Culpepper (Georgia)
4. Magallon (Fullerton)
5. Yeats (Idaho State)
6. Osborn (Missouri State)
7. Rabinowitz (Georgia)
8. Burshteyn (California)
9. Murray (Harvard)
10. Hamraie (Emory)
11. Hoehn (Emory)
12. Anders (Harvard)
13. Meiches (Whitman)
14. Patten (Wake Forest)
15. Wallace (George Washington)
16. Luxemburg (Harvard)
17. Mirchandani (Harvard)
18. Keenan (Michigan)
19. Bricker (Kansas)
20. Jennings (Kansas)

JV Speaker Awards

1. Belly (Binghamton)
2. White (Whitman)
3. Passantino (Binghamton)
4. Woan (Binghamton)
5. Yang (Rochester)

JV Seeds

1. Whitman College MS
2. Binghamton BP
3. Binghamton TW
4. Rochester CY

(Whitman JW was 7-0 but could not clear as a hybrid)

2005 Results

Elimination Round Results

Open Division

Finals

Harvard KM def. Northwestern BC (Aff) 2-1 (Achten, Arnett, *Gonzalez)

Semifinals

Northwestern BC (Neg) def. Michigan State BH 3-0 (Lacy, Achten, Kelly)

Harvard KM (Aff) def. California BW 2-1 (Deatherage, *Mancuso, Abbott)

Quarterfinals

Michigan State BH (Neg) def. Wayne State FM 2-1 (*Lee, Morris, Ceren)

Harvard KM advances over Harvard MR

California BW (Aff) def. Dartmouth BM 3-0 (Hardy, Atchison, Lacy)

Northwestern BC (Aff) def. Wake CH 3-0 (Repko, Gonzalez, Achten)

Octofinals

Michigan State BH (Aff) def. Dartmouth KO 2-1 (*Grayson, Lee, Scueler)

Harvard KM (Aff) def. Wake GL 3-0 (Frappier, Morris, Mancuso)

California BW (Neg) def. Emory SS (Blank, Strauss, Olney)

Northwestern BC (Aff) def. Georgia CR 3-0 (Lupo, Lacy, Evans)

Wake CH (Aff) def. Whitman SS 3-0 (Repko, Ramachandrappa, Hamrick)

Dartmouth BM (Aff) def. George Washington LW 2-1 (*Achten, Atchison,
Feldman)

Harvard MR (Neg) def. Missouri State BM 2-1 (Nathan, Arnett, *Gonzalez)

Wayne State FM (Aff) def. Whitman BM 2-1 (Turner, *Malumphy, Holbrook)

Double-Octofinals

Wayne State Gabe Murillo & Matt Farmer (Neg) def. Wyoming Will Jensen & Josh Schmerge 3-0 (Pointer, Feldman, Mauer)

California Craig Wickersham & Mike Burshteyn (Aff) def. North Texas Max Archer & Ben Patterson 3-0 (Lacy, Schueler, Turoff)

George Washington Brett Wallace & Brian Linder (Neg) def. North Texas Kuntal Cholera & Rachel Schy 3-0 (Tarloff, Greenstein, Forslund)

Harvard Michael Klinger & Nikhil Mirchandani (Neg) def. Case Western Nick Dorsey & Nick Denissen 3-0 (Ceren, Mancuso, Steele)

Missouri State Matthias Bostick & Michael Mapes (Aff) def. Emory Aimi Hamraie & Rob Mills 2-1 (Ramachandrappa, *Olney, Hanson)

Wake Forest Seth Gannon & Alex Lamballe (Aff) def. Texas (Austin) Jenny Davis & Chris Thiele 3-0 (Achten, Arnett, D’Amico)

Emory Chipp Schwab & Chris Sun (Aff). Def. Michigan State Univ. Jimi Durkee & Jillian Tietjen 3-0 (Nathan, Strait, Southworth)

Whitman College Matt Schissler & Eric Suni (Neg) def. West Georgia Jane Munksgaard & Geoff Lundeen 2-1 (*Walters, Bowman, Morris)

Northwestern Josh Branson & Noah Chestnut (Neg) def. Wake Forest Elizabeth Gedmark & Chris Sedelmyer 3-0 (Gonzalez, Repko, Warner).

Georgia Brent Culpepper & Kevin Rabinowitz (Neg) def. Emory Stephen Chaudoin & Roy Levkovitz 3-0 (Strauss, Turner, Reddy)

Dartmouth Hunter Brooks & David Marks (Aff) def. Emory Nicholas Miller & Pradeep Pramanick 3-0 (Hardy, Atchison, More).

Dartmouth Josh Kernoff & Kade Olsen (Neg). def. Redlands Scott Schneider & Jake Ziering 2-1 (Malumphy, *Kephart, Holbrook)

Whitman College Jeff Buntin & Ben Meiches (Aff) def. Missouri State Mike Kearney & Martin Osborn 3-0 (Varda, Powers, Holland)

Harvard Jason Murray & Tripp Rebrovick (Neg) def. Iowa Todd Lantz & Brian Severson 2-1 (Hamrick, *Silber, Blank)

Michigan State Univ. Ryan Burke & Casey Harrigan def. Texas (Austin) Phillip Ripper & Nick Whitaker 3-0 (Kelly, Watson, Grayson)

Wake Forest Jamie Carroll & Brad Hall (Neg) def. Texas (Austin) Benjamin Durham & Reid Jones 3-0 (Lupo, Lee, Borden)

Open Division Teams Winning Four Debates but not participating in
elimination rounds:

Binghamton (Jake Gartman & Matt Malia)

Gonzaga (Nick Bormann & Charlie Hutchison)

Texas (Sarah Heaton & Spencer Johnson)

Whitman (Sam Allen & Meghan Hughes)

Whitman (Eric Chalfant & Mike Meredith)

Junior Varisty Division

Finals

Fullerton DL (Neg) def. Whitman SS 2-1 (Silber, Frappier, *Tarloff)

Semi-finals

Fullerton BL (Neg) def. Whitman BG 2-1 (Russell, Neeson, *Walters)

Whitman SS (Neg) def. Long Beach CF 3-0 (Abbott, Ward, Silber)

Quarter-Finals Results

Whitman (Kathryn Bergh & Jake Ginsbach) (Aff) def. Navy (Sean Hurley &
Alex Powers) 3-0 (Johnson, Russell, Schatz)

Whitman (Candi Kissinger & Luke Sanford) (Neg) def. Northridge (Terence
Smith & Brandon Sweeney) 3-0 (Dolbin, Sternhagen, Kimbrell)

Fullerton (Brett Beeler & Darren Letendre) (Aff) def. Southwestern (Jose
Baglon & Luis Quinoez) 3-0 (Dennis, Neeson, Verney)

Long Beach (Kristine Calicdan & Aly Fiebrantz) (Neg) def. Navy (David
Jordan & Brett Wessley) 3-0 (Ward, Simas, Wiener)

Speaker Awards

Open Division	Junior Varsity Divsion
1. Michael Klinger (Harvard)	1. Brett Beeler (CSU Fullerton)
2. Josh Branson (Northwestern)	2. Candi Kissinger (Whitman)
3. Stephen Chaudoin (Emory)	3. Luke Sanford (Whitman)
4. Craig Wickersham (California)	4. David Jordan (Navy)
5. Casey Harrigan (Michigan State)	5. Jake Ginsbach (Whitman)
6. Mike Burshteyn (California)	6. Alex Powers (Navy)
7. Ryan Burke (Michigan State)	7. Aly Fiebrantz (Long Beach)
8. Mattias Bostick (Missouri State)	8. Darren Letendre (Fullerton)
9. Nikhil Mirchandani (Harvard)	9. Kathryn Bergh (Whitman)
10. Michael Mapes (Missouri State)	10. Sean Hurley (Navy)
11. Roy Levkovitz (Emory)
12. Gabe Murillo (Wayne State)
13. Brad Hall (Wake)
14. Jamie Carroll (Wake)
15. David Marks (Dartmouth)
16. Hunter Brooks (Dartmouth)
17. Noah Chestnut (Northwestern)
18. Eric Suni (Whitman)
19. Jeff Buntin (Whitman)
20. Dale Morrison (CSU Fullerton)

Caselist

Aff Caselist (Day 1)	Neg Caselist (Day 2)
Aff Caselist (Day 2)	Neg Caselist (Day 2)

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