Brooks Debate Institute

07/27/2025

Registration for FALL '25 Classes is now open! New season starts MON 08/18!

https://forms.gle/xje4LML9ifiZa37bA

Students who'd like some early prep in speech and/or the upcoming SEP/OCT Public Forum Debate topic before the school year starts can still register for SUMMER '25 as well...

https://forms.gle/TCdoW57Ggd2jK97S7

Looking forward to seeing all of my new/returning students real soon. 💙💛

--Coach Brooks

05/28/2025

Students! Our beloved friend and ally in Public Forum Debate, Joel Mounts from debate.track, has a new YouTube page! For future career advice, please check out:

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05/02/2025

FRI 05/02 HEALTH UPDATE:

Doctors this morning checked all my vitals: everything looking really good! Earlier in my hospital stay I occasionally got blood and platelet transfusions to up my counts- didn't need them today. Feel 110%. Feel like I could go boxing. 🥊💥

Best case scenario I could likely be out in next 5 days! 💙💛💙💛💙 🙏

Also... For those that didn't hear the full story already...

KTVU2 Story:
https://youtu.be/l0dh6LZnTf0?si=roDXaKd6Ppqf5VOp

GoFundMe:
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Love,
Coach Brooks

04/09/2024

"I'm the MBP... Most Ballin-ist Player... Make my own rules-- call me the m̶a̶y̶o̶r̶." **Senator/Representative 🇺🇲🫡

1st CONGRESS
2nd ORIGINAL ORATORY
3rd HUMOROUS INTERP

04/09/2024

Congrats to all of our students who placed at the 2024 Bay Area Middle School Championship!! 👏👏

This year's event captains showed up BIG this past weekend... 🫡🎖️🎖️🎖️🎖️

🎖️🎖️PF Captains Amanda Lee & Ronit Parikh BROOKS LP finished prelims as the #1 top seed in Public Forum Debate, ending the weekend as 1st Place tournament champions for a third time this season, while also also taking home 1st and 2nd place top speaker honors. The team of Dhairya Gurnani & Anubhav Chatterjee finished prelims as the #3 seed and finished T-5th in QTRs along with 5th & 10th place speaker awards, respectively.

🎖️EXPOS/INFO Captain Brinda Paladugu was the tournament champion in Expository Speaking: her 7th (I think? 🤔) overall 1st place finish in the event this season. Erin Johnson captured 4th place in her first EXPOS outing. Ellie Mui finished 5th in her EXTEMP and speech debut.

🎖️CONGRESS Captain Shon Khisti added a second 1st place overall finish as a representative to his resume this season and was the unofficial MVP of the tournament: he also finished 2nd in ORIGINAL ORATORY & 3rd in HUMOROUS INTERP. He was flanked in CONGRESS by teammate Santhosh Arunkumar who also advanced to the final chamber and finished 6th in his first tour of duty in the event.

PF: 🏆🏆🥇🥈 🏅🏅🏅🏅
CONGRESS: 🏆🏅
SPEECH: 🏆🥈🥉🏅🏅

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thanks to Presentation High School, Coach Jyleesa Hampton, Coach Schletzbaum, and the rest of the school/tournament students/staff for hosting another great tournament this year! 🙏

And a very special thank you to Amanda's dad, Brian Lee, for taking over chaperone duties last minute on Saturday and steering the ship on the first day of the tournament while I was out sick. Much appreciated! 🫡
sdhs

03/25/2024

Congrats to all of our students who placed in Middle School Public Forum Debate at this weekend's USAFO March Open!

The team of BROOKS "BS" (BS... 😂) Yash Bhutoria & Soujanya defeated NYSMITH CH in the Finals of Open MSPF to finish the weekend a perfect 8-0. Their 1st place tournament run earns them a Gold Bid to next month's USAFO Championship. 🎱 ➡️ 🏆 ➡️ 🪙

Coming in close behind were the teams of BROOKS GS Ansh Gupta & Udayan Singhal and BROOKS AP Sara Ansari & Simra Paranjpye, who also finished prelims undefeated, and placed T-3rd (Semis) and T-5th (Quarters) respectively. 🥉🥉 🏅🏅

Thanks to .official once again for hosting, see you at next month's championship event! 👀🗓️

03/17/2024

Congrats to all of our students who medaled at yesterday's NOF Walnut Invitational!

Erin Johnson broke to elims in her first ever SPAR tourney, finishing with 3rd place bronze in the middle school division. 🥉

Shradda Kumpatla also captured bronze in a mixed events field of HS INTERP. 🥉

And Shon Khisti added a 2nd place silver medal in MS Humorous Interp to complete the set and go along with the gold and bronze medals he won in Interp last winter. 🥈

Thanks to National Online Forensics for hosting!

03/12/2024

Spring is Playoff Time! And Championship Season for speech & debate competitors! Good luck to everyone competing these next few weeks! Especially if you're Reppin' The Bay. 🌉

West Coast. Best Coast. 🌅🏆

03/12/2024

Congrats to our team of Ashritaa Palavalli & Dhruv Rajamani for winning 1st Place at last weekend's Hyde Invitational in Middle School Public Forum Debate!! 🏆🥇🥇

Shout out to Saratoga High School for hosting!! 🙌

03/12/2024

Congrats to our INFO Captain, Brinda Paladugu, for placing 4th in last weekend's TOC Digital Speech & Debate Series #3!! 🫡🎖️🏅

03/11/2024

Public Forum Team @ 2024 Western JV Novice Championship