Bridgewater-Raritan High School debate team wins at Ridge National Debates

January 2, 2024

The BRHS debate team shows off their awards won at the Ridge National Debates.

The Bridgewater-Raritan High School debate team competed at the Ridge National Debates, a three-day tournament from December 8-10.

Offered debate categories include Parliamentary, Policy, Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum. Novice and Open categories were offered in all categories other than Parliamentary Debate.

Lincoln-Douglas Debate is a one-on-one competition focusing on values and philosophy, inspired by the historic debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.

Public Forum Debate involves teams of two discussing current events with an emphasis on clarity, while Policy Debate features an in-depth analysis of policy proposals by two-person teams.

Parliamentary Debate is a format where teams argue for or against a motion in a more impromptu and flexible setting.

The following Bridgewater-Raritan students competed at the tournament:

Lincoln Douglas – Novice

Sanvi Parikh
Sophia Liu
Arnav Dham
Shitika Madduri
Advika Prakash
Harshit Kondle

Lincoln Douglas – Open

Suraj Shah
Riya Shenvi
Eleanor Zhou
Matthew Yu
Saanvi Goel

Public Forum – Novice

Marko Gvozdenovic & Anik Shah
Paras Gawa & Rishabh Sankar
Rithvik krish & Om Shah
Esha Bande & Gayatri Krishnan

Public Forum – Open

Abhay Sankay & Atharva Makode
Sameer Tijare & Andy Wang
Viraaj Marathe & Mayur Kashyap
Advay Pandit & Maisam Tejani
Sunny Chen & Athul Anand

Parliamentary Debate

Meera Gharat & Andrei Cojocariu
Dev Patel & Amey Paranjpe

The Bridgewater-Raritan team excelled last weekend, with Advika Prakash and Sanvi Parikh making it to the semifinals and quarterfinals, respectively. Riya Shenvi made it to the finals, the teams of Abhay Sankar and Atharva Makode and Maisam Tejani and Advay Pandit reached the finals and Dev Patel and Amey Paranjpe broke to the quarterfinals.

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