The Brooks Academy

Real champions can never truly be defeated. Because even when they lose, they get right back up, and keep fighting. A very special thanks to our former competitors and last year's middle school Public Forum National champions, Devesh & Ankush, who after going 11 rounds in Public Forum at the NSDA National high school tournament, stopped by our team hotel to help prep out our debaters for their second day of middle school competition. Couldn't ask for better alums, thank you guys.

In the final round of varsity public forum at Georgiana Hays pits 2 of our former students against 2 of our current students. Congrats to Max Wu and Abraham Shalizi from Mission San Jose will be facing the team of Ishan Maunder and Arunav Gupta in the finals. Good luck guys.

Congrats to the team of Ani and Anshul from Amador Valley for not only qualifying to the Tournament of Champions but now have advanced into the octofinals round and are now automatically qualified for the tournament next year.

Congrats to 4 of our alumni for making the final round of varsity public forum. The team of Ankush and Devesh representing Mission San Jose on the affirmative versus the team of Ani and Anshul representing Amador Valley on the negative.

Congrats to several of our alumni as well as current students competing at the Stanford Invitational this weekend. In public forum we had 4 teams consisting of former students as well as one team who is currently enrolled in our program. Of these 5 teams 4 advanced into elimination rounds with the other team not advancing due to speaker points. Congrats to our former students from Mission San Jose Keshav, Steven, Ansh, Rohan, Devesh and Ankush for advancing into triple octofi...nals. Congrats to our current student Sauntharya and her partner from Washington High school for also advancing into triple octofinals. Keshav was also the 20th speaker at the tournament. In LD, we had our former student Lavanya advance to triple octofinals as well. Update: The teams of Ansh/Rohan and Devesh/Ankush are advancing to double-octofinals and are one round away from picking up another bid to the Tournament of Champions. Best of Luck folks. Update 2: sorry for omitting another team but congrats also to the team of Ani and Anshul from Amador Valley High School for advancing as well.