Season 2013-2014

Team Policy Resolution:

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its marine natural resource policies.

Number of Clash teams qualified to NITOC 2014: TP 10 / Parli 2.
Participation & Checkmarks in local tournaments:
- Clash teams participated in 13 Stoa local tournaments for TP, 5 tournaments for Parli and 1 tournaments for IP
- Participation (teams): TP 74, Parli 18, IP 3
- Checkmarks received: TP 41, Parli 10.
Tournament Champions:
- Team Policy:
  - Central Valley Challenge (April 3-5 2014): Christian McGuire - Nina Rose
  - Heart of the Valley (April 23-25 2014): Brigitta Rehn - McKenna Stevens
- Parliamentary:
  - Central Valley Challenge (April 3-5 2014): Christian McGuire - Nina Rose
  - Sea Lion Skirmish (Dec 13, 2013) : Kolbjorn Rehn - Torstein Rehn
Tournament First Place Speaker:
- Team Policy:
  - 17th Annual CLASH (Mar 27-29 2014): Jacob Shao
- Parliamentary:
  - Inland Club Challenge (Jan 29 - Feb 1 2014): Jacob Shao
  - Sea Lion Skirmish (Dec 13, 2013) : Alison Lindsay
- Individual Policy:
  - 17th Annual CLASH (Mar 27-29 2014): Michaela Landgraf

NITOC (National Invitational Tournament of Champions) 2014
- Team Policy Debate:
  - Participation:
    - Ten teams qualified
    - Seven teams attended (total 134 teams)
    - Four teams advanced into Triple-Octo, Dobule-Octo & Octo Finals
    - Three teams advanced into Quarter Final
    - Two teams advanced into Semi-Final
    - One team advanced into Final
  - Awards:
    - Second Place Team- McGuire-Roes: Special congratulations to Christian McGuire and Nina Rose for being the 11th CLASH team to debate in a national championship final round! In the history, CLASH has lost five final rounds to secure 2nd place in the nation – but two of those losses were to CLASH.
    - Third Place Team- Lutz-Shao: Congratulations to Lutz-Shao for being the 7th CLASH team to finish 3rd in the nation and 20th CLASH team to make the final four! Lutz/Shao restores 3rd place to the most common result for CLASH
    - Seventh Place Team- Harbman-Owen: Congratulations to Harbman-Owen for being the 26th team in the history of CLASH to finish in the top 10 in the Nation!
    - Sixteenth Place Team- Lindsay-Lutz: Congratulations to Lindsay-Lutz for cracking the top 20 in the nation!
    - Fifth Place Speaker- Jacob Shao

McGuire - Rose

(2nd Place)

Lutz - Shao

(3rd Place)

Harbman - Owen

(7th Place)

Lindsay - Lutz

(16th Place)

Silva - Silva

Gates - Tang

Chien - Chien

Rehn - Stevens

(Did Not Attend)

Rehn - Rehn

(Did Not Attend)

Landgraf - Lynn

(Did Not Attend)

Lindsay - McGuire

(10th Place)

Lutz - Shao

2013-2014 Season

Parli Tournaments in CFL/NFL:
- CFL Parli/PF 1 @ Leland Highschool 10/19/2013
  - Team attended: Clash 2 / Total 36
  - Owen - (N) Rose: 4-0 First place - CAState Qualifying
  - Shao - (M) Lutz: 3-1
- CFL Debate 2 @ Milpitas 11/10/2013
  - Team attended: Clash 1 / Total 41

We hosted two debate tournaments in the 2013-2014debate season:

1 day / Team Policy Only
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA, Dec 7, 2013
Total: 132 debaters / 66 TP teams
Community Judges: 19 judges signed up
Results
Photos
Twas the Night before Christmas Clash by Jor Bratko, Danny Rose and the Christmas Clash Tab Room 2013