The Results Are In: Flower Mound wins the 2023 Grapevine Classic!

This past weekend twenty schools competed at the Grapevine Classic in the World Schools Debate. After a hard fought weekend, Flower Mound Fire and Greenhill Platinum faced off in the finals debating the following: “This House would implement compulsory national service for recent high school graduates. On a 3-0 decision Flower Mound Fire emerged as the victor. Congratulations to Jessica John, Aditi Singh, Arjun Patil & Poorvi Kumar! You can find the rest of the elim results and motions, starting with quarters, here.

As for speaker awards, the top 10 speakers are as follows:

1. Sophia Li - Greenhill

2. Kaden Alibhai - Greenhill

3. Anu De - Coppell

4. Julia Mickiewicz - St John's

5. Aditi Vikram - Greenhill

6. Aditi Singh - Flower Mound

7. Effie Shen - Coppell

8. Om Patel - Coppell

9. Varun Mukund - Greenhill

10. Awas Amin - Southlake Carroll

Speaker awards can be found here.

Special shout out to WOWI alums (Poorvi Kumar for finals; Aali Shah for semifinals; Anissa Cherif for semifinals; Srishthi Das for quarterfinals) and WOWI staff writers (Anu De for top 3 speaking and semis; Aditi Vikram for top 5 speaking and quarters). Congratulations to all!