Below are some of our tournament records from the past two seasons.
Columns are: Team Name | Pre-Elimination Record | Elimination Depth | Team Last Names Asterisk denotes a hybrid
partnership.
2019 - 2020
PDB finished 1st in Overall Tourney Sweepstakes and 4th in Seasonwide Sweepstakes, ending the 2019-2020 season strongly!
Quarters
MY
7-1
Quarters
Miskell & Yang
BR
6-2
Octas
Bonet & Rashid
AK
6-2
Double Octas
Alpert & Karthik
NW*
4-4
No Break
Nikoubin & White*
5th Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
6th Place Speaker
Brian Yang
8th Place Speaker
Shannon Bonet
13th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
The NPTE Championship marks the 3rd PDB Championship in a row, making us the most successful
program in NPTE history!
Championships
MY
8-2
Champions
Miskell & Yang
BR
6-4
Quarters
Bonet & Rashid
AK
3-7
No Break
Alpert & Karthik
2nd Place Speaker
Brian Yang
4th Place Speaker
Shannon Bonet
6th Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
12th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
Parli at Berkeley took home 1st Place at the first of the three annual national championships
1st Place
RY
7-3
1st Place
Rashid & Yang
MN
6-4
3rd Place
Miskell & Nikoubin
1st Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
3rd Place Speaker
Brian Yang
6th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
Continuing the team's recent streak of championships, KY took first place and PDB placed 4th in
sweeps - which factored all events, not just NPDA debate.
Champions
KY
4-1
Champions
Krishnan & Yang
MR
5-0
Semis
Miskell & Rashid
MN
2-3
No Break
McCauley & Nikoubin
AW
2-3
No Break
Alpert & White*
1st Place Speaker
Brian Yang
4th Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
8th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
PDB's historic run continues!
Champions
MY
6-0
Champions
Miskell & Yang
BR
5-1
Quarters
Bonet & Rashid
KZ
4-2
Quarters
Krishnan & Zhuang
MN
3-3
No break
McCauley & Nikoubin
AJ
4-2
No Break
Alpert & Jayasuriya
1st Place Speaker
Brian Yang
4th Place Speaker
Frances Zhuang
6th Place Speaker
Shannon Bonet
8th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
9th Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
10th Place Speaker
Karthik Krishnan
PDB's incredible partnerships made a historic run amongst challenging competition. Note: PA was a
hybrid partnership with Texas Tech.
Champions
MY
5-1
Champions
Miskell & Yang
BR
5-1
Quarters
Bonet & Rashid
KZ
4-2
Octos
Krishnan & Zhuang
MN
3-3
Octas
McCauley & Nikoubin
PA
4-2
Octas
Pritchard* & Alpert
JS
3-3
No Break
Jayasuriya & Schulz
1st Place Speaker
Brian Yang
4th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
10th Place Speaker
Shannon Bonet
11th Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
15th Place Speaker
Karthik Krishnan
A UC Berkeley power outage forced the tournament to relocate to St Mary's College, where the tournament was held despite
power outages and threats of fire!
Semifinals
BR
5-0
Semis
Bonet & Rashid
MY
5-0
Semis
Miskell & Yang
3-2
NS
Quarters
Nikoubin & Shadmany
3-2
AM
Octas
Alpert & McCauley
3-2
JS
Octas
Jayasuriya & Schulz
3-2
KZ
Octas
Krishnan & Zhuang
2-3
HL
No Break
Huang & Liu
2-3
BQ
No Break
Bhasin & Quinn
1st Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
3rd Place Speaker
Shannon Bonet
4th Place Speaker
Nika Nikoubin
5th Place Speaker
Brian Yang
6th Place Speaker
Harris Shadmany
8th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
15th Place Speaker
Frances Zhuang
PDB travelled 5 teams to Lewis and Clark College, and won the tournament after advancing 2 teams to the elimination bracket! All 5 teams finished in the top half of the pool, and a PDB debater took top overall speaker.
Champions
BR
5-1
Champions
Bonet & Rashid
MY
5-1
Quarters
Miskell & Yang
KZ
3-3
No Break
Krishnan & Zhuang
JS
3-3
No Break
Jayasuriya & Schulz
NS
3-3
No Break
Nikoubin & Shadmany
1st Place Speaker
Brian Yang
3rd Place Speaker
Karthik Krishnan
5th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
9th Place Speaker
Michael Jayasuriya
11th Place Speaker
Shannon Bonet
12th Place Speaker
Frances Zhuang
16th Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
PDB NS left as champions from Chabot's tournament, just a short train ride away from Berkeley. Please note that
speaker records are unavailable.
Champions
NS
3-1
Champions
Nikoubin & Shadmany
AH
2-2
No Break
Alpert & Huang
BK
1-3
No Break
Bhasin & Kazim
PDB travelled 2 teams to Texas and closed out the elimination bracket when both made it to the finals round! BR dropped zero ballots, while MY dropped just one each in prelims and elims.
Finals Closeout
BR
6-0
Finals
Bonet & Rashid
MY
5-1
Finals
Miskell & Yang
3rd Place Speaker
Brian Yang
5th Place Speaker
Shannon Bonet
6th Place Speaker
Amanda Miskell
PDB attended their first tournament of the season, where 11 out of 12 members who went
were first-time PDB debaters!
Semis
KZ
3-2
Semis
Krishnan & Zhuang
BR
4-1
Quarters
Bonet & Rashid
JS
3-2
Quarters
Jayasuriya & Schulz
NS
3-2
Octos
Nikoubin & Shadmany
MM
3-2
Octos
McCauley & Mikityuk
AH
2-3
No Break
Alpert & Huang
2nd Place Speaker
Shannon Bonet
4th Place Speaker
Frances Zhuang
6th Place Speaker
Karthik Krishnan
8th Place Speaker
Ryan Rashid
2018 - 2019
PDB had a fantastic run at the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence,
with KT taking home the championship for Berkeley's second year in a row!
Champions
KT
9-1
Champions, 7-0
Kadie & Tolchard
MR
6-4
Third Place
Miskell and Riezler
DR
5-5
No Award
Dense & Rashid
2nd Place Speaker
Tom Kadie
5th Place Speaker
Henry Tolchard
Top Novice
Amanda Miskell
Three Berkeley teams and one Berkeley/WWU hybrid closed out NPDA finals after an incredible run through the tournament.
1st Place Overall Tournament Sweepstakes
KT
8-0
Co-Champions
Kadie & Tolchard
JI
7-1
Co-Champions
Jung & Iavender
MR
7-1
5th Place
Miskell & Riezler
DR
5-3
No Award
Dense & Rashid
Hosted by PDB, the NRR served as a fun set of competition and practice for upcoming NPDA and NPTE! NRR does not have elimination brackets.
Because there was no elimination bracket, placement was determined by prelim record.
1st Place Overall Tournament Sweepstakes
KT
9-1
2nd Place
Kadie & Tolchard
JI
6-4
3rd Place
Jung & Iavender
RR
8-2
5th Place
Riezler & Rashid
2nd Place
Isabella Riezler
3rd Place
Ryan Rashid
6th Place
Tom Kadie
7th Place
Henry Tolchard
Brian Yang returned after a long break as Rashid, Kadie and Tolchard prepared for the championship!
Semis
RY
6-1
Semis
Rashid and Yang
KT
4-3
Semis
Kadie and Tolchard
8th Place
Brian Yang
10th Place
Henry Tolchard
14th Place
Ryan Rashid
15th Place
Tom Kadie
MR made an incredibly successful run to elimination finals to qualify for NPTE!
Finals
MR
4-0
Finals
Miskell and Riezler
1st Place
Isabella Riezler
2nd Place
Amanda Miskell
KT did not drop a single ballot in prelims, and closed out the tournament with our hybrid JI!
Close-Out
KT
5-0
Co-Champions
Kadie & Tolchard
JI
5-0
Co-Champions
Jung & Lavendar
2nd Place
Henry Tolchard
3rd Place
Jessica Jung
5th Place
Tom Kadie
PDB visited our close friends at Concordia for a fun tournament and wonderful competition!
Octos
MR
5-1
Octos
Miskell & Riezler
DR
3-3
Octos
Dense & Rashid
CQ
1-5
No Break
Chana & Quinn
8th Place
Baden Dense
14th Place
Ryan Rashid
19th Place
Amanda Miskell
Part two of the tournament showed an earlier finish for several of our teams.
Quarters
KT
5-1
Quarters
Kadie & Tolchard
DR
4-2
Octos
Dense & Rashid
MR
3-3
Octos
Miskell & Riezler
CQ
2-4
No Break
Chang & Quinn
5th Place
Tom Kadie
7th Place
Henry Tolchard
16th Place
Ryan Rashid
The first half of a two-half tournament, the TTS (formally Mile High) was an incredibly fun and challenging
tournament!
Finals
KT
6-0
Finals
Kadie & Tolchard
DR
4-2
Octos
Dense & Rashid
MR
3-3
Octos
Miskell & Riezler
MM
3-3
No Break
Mcllvenna-Davis & Mountjoy
CQ
2-4
No Break
Chang & Quinn
1st Place
Henry Tolchard
2nd Place
Tom Kadie
15th Place
Ryan Rashid
17th Place
Isabella Riezler
20th Place
Baden Dense
Hosted by PDB, KT took the championship, and all our teams met fierce competition throughout the tournament!
Champions
KT
6-0
Champions
Kadie & Tolchard
JR
6-0
Quarters
Jung & Riezler
DR
5-1
Octos
Dense & Rashid
2nd Place
Tom kadie
5th Place
Jessica Jung
7th Place
Isabella Riezler
8th Place
Henry Tolchard
13th Place
Baden Dense
2017-2018
TY took the championship, and PDB had an overall very successful run at the most prestigious NPDA tournament of the season!
Champions
TY
8-4
Champions
Tolchard & Yang
KL
9-3
Kadie & Liao
AD
8-4
Andrabi & Damerdji
RT
7-5
Riezler & Tang
3rd Place
Tom Kadie
4th Place
Thomas Liao
10th Place
Brian Yang
20th Place
Henry Tolchard
PDB kicked off the championship run to a great start, with all teams breaking into eliminations!
