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The California State University, Long Beach Forensics Team competes in speech and debate competitions at the local, state, and national levels.

Beach Forensics is a nationally competitive and nationally ranked speech and debate team. We meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-5:30 in Liberal Arts 1 (LA 1-309) for administration and team business and practice in the Faculty Offices (FO4-153-159). If you are interested in joining the team, please email any of our coaches for more information

Director of Speech/Individual Events: Rebel St

Operating as usual

02/07/2025

Congratulations to our graduate debate coach Jaysyn Green for presenting at the Elevating Black/Pan African Brilliance : A celebration of Graduate Student Excellence Across Disciplines with her graduate student work on the Black Communist International!!!

02/02/2025

Wish Daniel (8th speaker) and Curtis (4th speaker) some good luck going into the Texas OPEN Doubles tomorrow as the 3rd seed with a 7-1 record..GO BEACH OHHHH 🌊🌊🌊

01/22/2025

Hello Friends, Alumni, and supporters !!! We hope that your holiday season and everything thus far has been wonderful and you all have been staying safe!!! We have news to report from all levels of our team, but in this post I will talk about the recent success of the policy students! I miss you too much students over the break attended two tournaments!

Curtis and Daniel attended Georgetown and they finished with a 5-2 record and made it to Octafinals!!

Curtis and Daniel then attended the Rutgers round robin at Rutgers University in New Jersey where they finish with a 4-1 record. Curtis was the first place speaker in his pod. And the two advanced to eliminations and won the entire tournament on a 3-0 decision against Macalester!! Let's give them a BIG CONGRATS!!

Photos from Beach Forensics's post 12/08/2024

This weekend we hosted the LOS ANGELES METRO DEBATE LEAGUE!!! It was a joy to host them as our annual guests! We welcomed over a hundred students that debated the topic of expanding intellectual property rights! We even received a beautiful host award! Thanks y'all for coming! Los Angeles Metropolitan Debate League Deven E Cooper

12/04/2024

Hey everyone! Come out to the speech showcase if you can!

11/08/2024
11/04/2024

Welcome Our New Associate Director of Forensics Duncan Stewart and Our New Speech Director Rebel Saint Lilith adding to our team with The Director of Debate Deven Cooper !

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Hello Beach Friends and Family !!

This past weekend our entire team went to compete at the
2024 Robert Barbera Invitational hosted by Dr. Joel Lemuel at CSU Northridge! Again CSU LB popped up and showed people that we are well qualified to represent the L.B.C GO BEACHHHHHH!

On the policy side we entered 3 teams in the single division of open although 2 of the teams are technically JV and Novice

Alessandra & Dorian went 3-2 , just missing on breaking due to speaker points
Kylee & Mallory went 2- 3
Jean & Gabriel went 1- 4

In Speech, Erika Linares 2nd place in Open Informative !

In IPDA debate, we had 3 folks placing:

Angelo Leon bronze in Novice IPDA 2-2 prelim record
Annika Fisk silver in Novice IPDA with a 3-1 prelim record
Benny Nottonson silver in Open IPDA with a 2-2 prelim record

In Parli Debate

Benny and Ashan win bronze in Open Parli with a 3- 1 prelim record.

Daniel and Mallory enter the Open Parli pool as a last minute add and go UNDEFEATED 4-0 in the Prelims and win their GOLD round. CHAMPION STATUS!!

As a team across all the events CSU Long Beach wins 2nd place Sweepstakes in the 4-year University category !!
Last Post of the day , I Promise 😊

GO BEACHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Photos from Beach Forensics's post 11/04/2024

Hello Beach Friends and Family !
The Speech and Lincoln Doulas team traveled down to the beautiful weather of San Diego to compete at the Sunset Cliffs tournament hosted by Point Loma Nazarene University. This was another truly amazing showing by our team! The results are as follows:

Issac Ramnani - 2nd Place- Poetry

Guadalupe Guzman - 1st place -Prose, 5th Place ; Program Oral Interpretation CHAMPION STATUS!

Ruby Ortega 1st place Drama, 1st place Program Oral Interpretation; Individual Champion of Speech TRIPLE CHAMPION
STATUS! WITH PICKET FENCES RANKINGS! 10s across the board!!!

Nicoleta Enciu - Semi-Finalist Impromptu

Alex Christenson - Semi-Finalist Impromptu

Rebecca Lavond -2nd Place Persuasive Speaking

Ashan Herath - 1st place, undefeated ; Lincoln Douglas CHAMPION STATUS!

This was such an awesome job by our AMAZING students !!!

Photos from Beach Forensics's post 11/04/2024

Hello Beach Friends and Family!

The policy debate portion of the team traveled two of our teams to the Harvard University National Invitational into the cold Boston weather.. BURRRRRRR ! We took the teams of Curtis Ortega & Daniel Media ( Open) and Kylee Ayala & Mallory Johnson (novice) to the HARDEST tournament outside of the NDT.

Our team had a great showing here ! Best of the season yet!

Curtis Ortega & Daniel Media finished prelims with a record of 6 - 2 ( 5th seed) with some great wins over Stanford, Berkeley, Kansas, and Wake Forest! Out of 160 speakers in the Open division, Daniel was the 23rd speaker and Curtis was the 4th! The duo finished the tournament in the Quarterfinals !

Kylee Ayala & Mallory Johnson finished prelims with a record of 4 - 2. They were the 25th and 22nd speakers out of 44 in the pool, respectively. They had great wins over NYU, Liberty, Boston College, and Suffolk college. They finish in the Semifinals of the novice division.

Special thanks to our assistant coaches Geo and Jaysyn for all of their hard work throughout the weekend!

In a week our team will travel to Wake Forest !

Photos from Beach Forensics's post 11/04/2024

Happy Halloween!!

Photos from Beach Forensics's post 11/04/2024

Hey again Beach Forensics Fam!
The Policy Debate side of the team has been busy!!!

They have attended

Northwestern
Southwestern
Kentucky/ Kentucky Round Robin

Our team is full of competitors and new team formations that have made us a growing team trying to re-calibrate for this season!!

At Northwestern!

The new team of Curtis Ortega and Daniel Medina finished with a 5 - 3 record dropping in Doubles. Curtis was the 18th speaker.

At Southwestern!

Our novices performed quite well !!

The team of Kylee Ayala & Mallory Johnson were UNDEFEATED (1st seed) ! Both gaining speaker awards 3rd and 1st respectively

The team of Gabriel Torres & Jean Kim were 3-1 ( 2nd seed) Both gaining speaker awards 2nd and 4th respectively

Both teams closed out the novice division as the 1st and 2nd place teams!

The team of Alessandra Escobar & Sofia Gurrola in open finished with a 4-2 records just missing out on breaking on speaker points.

At Kentucky!

The KY Round robin yielded a great win over HARVARD
The Kentucky tournament proper Curtis Ortega and Daniel Medina finished with a 5-1 record (6th seed) dropping in Doubles. Curtis was the 9th speaker and Daniel was the 16th out of 212 speakers! They had impressive wins over Northwestern, Kentucky, and Emory ( the team that won both the RR and the tournament)

Photos from Beach Forensics's post 11/04/2024

Dear friends of forensics at Beach,

I am excited to report that our speech team and our parliamentary debate teams made a statement as they opened their seasons at Concordia University Irvine from 8/11-13.

Among 24 total schools, CSULB won 4th place in 4-year-school sweepstakes! Contributing to this success were several tournament champions in their events--

Congratulations to our remarkably dominant speech team, who made it to the top of the pool in a tournament with 268 speech entries--

-Gudalupe Guzman: 1st place in Prose, 1st place Program Oral Interpretation, and your overall Champion of Individual Events
-Ruby Ortega: 1st place in Dramatic Interpretation
-Rebecca Lavond: 1st place in Persuasive Speaking
-Kassidy Echnoz: 2nd Place in Persuasive
-Isaac Ramani: 3rd place in Poetry
-Alex Christenson: 4th place in Extemporaneous Speaking, and Semifinalist in Impromptu
-Benny Nottonson: 6th place in Impromptu Speaking

Our debate team put Beach excellence on full display as well--

-Benny Nottonson and Nicoletta Enciu were 5-0 in NPDA debate prelims and the top seed of the tournament, finishing the weekend in quarterfinals!
-Benny, earned the Top Speaker award, symbolizing the best performance of any individual debate participant at the tournament.
-In IPDA Issac Ramnani and Benny Nottonson received Bronze awards! Their combined preliminary record was 7-1!

Please congratulate our hardworking and talented students on an outstanding performance when you see them on campus.

Go Beach!

07/28/2024

Today some of the policy debaters hard at work getting ready for this year's topic!

Resolved: The United States Federal Government should adopt a clean energy policy for decarbonization in the United States, including a
market-based instrument.

Go Beach! 05/13/2024

Please donate to Help our cause :)

Go Beach! Help California State University, Long Beach raise $20,000 for the project: Beach Forensics. Your gift will make a difference!

Go Beach! 05/03/2024

Hello everyone! We thank you for all of the support and love that you have shown us these past set of years as we embark on improving the image and success of Beach forensics. With that comes substantial costs as the team grows due to the successes we have had. If you could find it in your beautiful hearts and souls to give us a little help that would be awesome. Of course your donation is a tax write-off and the students will greatly appreciate anything that you could give. All of the donations will go to traveling students to tournaments and making sure that they don't have to come out their pockets for any costs. Thanks so so much! GO BEACH!!!!

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Go Beach!

04/28/2024

Congratulations to our Mallory Johnson [philosophy] for winning the Gold medal in novice IPDA at the Cool off hosted by Santiago Canyon College!!

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