Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Sections Debate Tournament -- January 5 and 6

MSHSL Section 6 Debate Tournament
Roseville HS
1240 County Road B2 W, Roseville, MN 55113 [directions]


Times
Bus picks up at 3:00 at Door 5 at Edina HS on Friday.  Anticipate returning to EHS at 9:30 PM.
Bus picks up at 7:00 AM at Door 5 at Edina HS on Saturday. Anticipate returning to EHS around 4:30 PM.

Coach Contact
Hayden Uihlein 734 680 6011

Tournament Info
Round 1 and 2 are preset randomly.  Schools cannot meet for a second time in the preset rounds.
Round 3 to 6 are powered hi/low within brackets.   All pullups are done via Worst Opponent Seed (see Rule III State Debate Tournament - B State Tournament Debate Pairing - #1 Rounds 3 to 6)
Round 7 (if needed) in LD or PF only.  If there is a clear break of entries for state tournament qualification a seventh rounds is not needed.  However, if there is a tie based on win-loss record between the 6th and 7th seed then the following process is used.

10 to 12 entries (LD/PF)
· Seed #6 vs #7
· Seed #5 vs #8
· Seed #4 vs #9
· Seed #3 vs #10
· Seed #2 vs #11
· Seed #1 vs #12

If there are 11 or 10 entries, the #1 and #2 seed can be given a bye as needed.  In the event of 13+ entries, then those seeds not listed above will be matched against each other.  Entries can meet a second time in the seventh round with sides flipped from a previous meeting.  Same school may not meet in round 7.  In the event the same schools are scheduled to meet the higher seed should not be moved.  For example, if the #3 and #10 seed were from the same school, the #10 and #9 seed would swap places.  Seed is based on the MSHSL State Qualifier seed process (see rule II Section Debate Tournaments – 3 State Qualifiers).  Sides are set by tab.

The other 3 section tournaments run at the same time, so our other debaters will be watching and scouting rounds.

If you are interested in signing up to scout rounds, please click here. We’ll hold a training session on January 4th to distribute information.  You must try to attend to the info session if you plan on scouting.

Policy Debate

Based on the six entries, we would use this method as described in the rule process:

A round robin format will be used with a maximum of six rounds in CX.  In LD and PF, a modified round robin can be used for the first six preliminary rounds.  In the event of a tie after six rounds in LD/PF, a seventh round will be run using the above format.  All entries would be given an equal number of affirmative and negative rounds.  All efforts would be made to avoid the same school debating another same school on the same side (i.e. SchoolA1 vs SchoolB1 and SchoolA2 vs SchoolB2 – ideally sides would be flipped in one of these rounds) but side equalization has a higher priority than school side priority.


Food
There will be no concessions available. There will NOT be a concessions for the tournament.  Schools MUST pre-order food or bring their own.  We’ll discuss this as coaches and will let the students know what to expect. 


Competitors

Name
Code
Division
Richard Zhu/David Ma
Edina MZ
Public Forum
Khalid Ishani/Matthew Nissen
Edina IN
Public Forum
Anand Mittal
Edina AM
Lincoln Douglas
Sandra Chen
Edina SC
Lincoln Douglas
Zelda Kieser/Kerui Yang
Edina KY
Policy
Claire Anderson McElligot/Josh Ding
Edina AD
Policy

Prep Squad as of December 27, 2017

Name
Day
Division
Jonah Rosenthal
Friday
LD
Rahil Modi
Friday
LD
Nathan Annareddy
Friday/Saturday
LD
Kathleen Scoggin
Friday
LD
Matthew Ruppert
Saturday
LD
Aditya Rewalliwar
Friday/Saturday
PF
Kendrew Chen
Friday/Saturday
PF
Lily Jones
Friday/Saturday
PF
Evan Jiang
Friday/Saturday
PF
Isaac Wu
Friday
PF
Oscar O’Brien
Saturday
PF
Zach Paradis
Saturday
PF


Schedule

Friday Schedule – January 5th

Schools CANNOT arrive prior to 3:30 PM.  Please ensure busing schedules are right to ensure they do not arrive too early.  Roseville has school in session until that time.

Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum

Round 1: 4:30 PM
Round 2: 5:30 PM
Round 3: 7:00 PM

Policy Debate

Round 1: 4:15 PM
Round 2: 6:15 PM

Saturday Schedule – January 6th

Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum

Round 4: 8:30 AM
Round 5: 9:45 AM
Round 6: 11:00 AM
Round 7: 1:00 PM (IF NECESSARY)

Policy Debate

Round 3: 8:00 AM
Round 4: 10:00 AM
Round 5: 12:30 PM (IF NECESSARY)
Round 6: 2:30 PM (IF NECESSARY)

NOTE: The policy schedule may be fewer rounds depending on the final pairing process.