Paras is a historically successful competitive debate coach. He has pioneered online debate coaching as an industry and has personally completed 5,000 hours of online tutoring. Notable achievements include building DebateDrills and coaching 3 straight students to 1st or 2nd place at the national championships (the TOC), including a 10th grade student, who holds the record for youngest ever TOC finalist. Paras has personally coached hundreds of students to success at countless local, regional, national and international tournaments, overseeing a uniquely dominant competitive streak of success.
"I think Paras understands debate at a deeper level than anyone else in the United States. He is a subject matter expert at teaching complex cost-benefit analysis, debate theory, and debate strategy. Paras made sure to push me on critical aspects of debating that I often forgot about. He made sure I was persuasive, strategic and efficient."
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"Working with Paras improved my technical debating far beyond anything I had done before. His meticulous insistence on repeating speeches until perfection is particularly commendable."
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"I worked with Paras extensively the summer before my 12th grade debate season and leading up to the TOC, and based on that time I honestly believe Paras is the most unique and exceptional coach in the entire business. I attribute a large part of my own personal development in debate to Paras."
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"My time working with Paras was when I made the fastest and most rewarding improvement as a debater. His commitment as a coach and exceptional attention to detail will help you fix the mistakes and improve problems that never even occurred to you."
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