Arya and Arnesh win finals on a 3-0, and are the 2024 Iowa Caucus tournament champions! Now on to KCKCC this weekend. Blue Valley West

Lucy and Sophie finish 2nd place at the Iowa Caucus! Speaker awards: Jaxson Terreros 6th Lucy Pace 7th Sophie Leonard 8th

Updates from KCKCC. Congrats to Ajay and Cam for winning the 2nd Year Breakout!!! Shereen and Vigna lost in semis on a 2-1 decision. Iman and Maira beat Olathe North in quarters on a 3-0 decision to earn their first TOC bid! We are neg vs. BVSW in semis.

In both quarters and semis Kavi and Aditi won on a 3-0 decision!! Kavi and Aditi have secured their third bid to the TOC!

Lucy and Sophie finish in semifinals. Another great tournament for these seniors!

Congrats to Kavi Chidambaranathan and Aditi Nimishakavi for being this year’s KCKCC champions!!

For the first time in school history, Brayden and Rohan are DCI champions!

State CHAMPIONS. Class 6A. 4 Speaker Debate. Lawrence Free State! Runner-up to Washburn Rural and third to Blue Valley. Congrats!

Congrats to 5A State Championship team in 4 speaker debate - BV Southwest! KC Sumner in second and third to De Soto #WellDone

Class 6A. 2-Speaker Debate. STATE CHAMPS. BV North. Congratulations!

Congrats to Newton HS - Class 5A Debate 2-Speaker STATE CHAMPIONS!

Congratulations to Maira and Iman for their outstanding performance at the TOC! The first BVN team to reach elims since 2019.

We are so excited for Henry & Asra who advance to the final six at NSDA Nationals tomorrow morning!!! #RaiderDB8fam💚💛

Jaxson and Ishaan lose on a close 3-2 decision to BVN and place 3rd! So proud of these two!

After 4 days and 14 rounds of debate, Maira Parsons and Iman Suleman will compete for a national championship! 🎉🐐🐎 We will debate Taipei American School tomorrow in the finals of National Speech & Debate Association nationals.

Maira and Iman finish as national runners-up at #NSDA100! The best finish in school history🐴🐐 Not bad for starting in November!

Incredible opening weekend at Washburn Rural! Maira & Ajay and Kyle & Mitchell close out finals! Shruti & Nikos were walked over in quarterfinals. Lizzy & Hakim were in octos. For the first time ever, three BVN teams have earned a TOC bid in the same season!

What a fabulous weekend! 2 novice teams go 4-1, Open team goes 3-2, And MM has their second bid secured!! Seniors are qualified to nationals after only 2 tournaments!

Congrats to Maira and Ajay for winning the BVSW tournament and qualifying for the Tournament of Champions!

Best of luck to to the nine(!) Kansas teams currently competing at the Tournament of Champions: BVN CT, BVN LP, BVN NP, BVSW CP, Free State FH, Manhattan SW, Olathe North MM, SMS CK, and WaRu CH!