After months of preparation, competitions, and frantic research, speech and debate students finally competed at the Texas Forensic Association (TFA) State Tournament. Held at Alief Taylor High School in Houston, the tournament lasted from Thursday, March 14 to Saturday, March 16 with 50 Westwood qualifiers attending.

“For a lot of people it is the most important tournament of the year, and it’s one of the tournaments where a large portion of the entire team can get together and really show off how much they’ve improved throughout the year, plus the food quality is pretty great,” Linette Page ‘19 said.

The tournament concluded Saturday night with the awards ceremony held in the Alief auditorium. Below is a list of all the State placements.

Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking

Semi-Finalists: Anurima Mummaneni

Quarter-Finalists:

Sonny Stenson

Emily Gao

Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking

Quarter-Finalists: Jeff Freeman

Impromptu Speaking

Fifth Place: Maximilien Wolf

Quarter-Finalists: Clementine Larrouilh

Varsity Public Forum (PF) Debate

Double Octo-Finalists: Jeff Freeman – Arnav Gunwani

Triple Octo-Finalists: Nathan Iyer – Chinmay Pingale

Varsity Lincoln Douglas (LD) Debate

Octo-Finalists: Truman Le

Triple Octo-Finalists:

Mihir Shah

Alice Zhang

Saavan Myneni

Varsity Policy (CX) Debate

Semi-Finalists: Vikas Burugu – Daniel Shi