Results from Andover and Coon Rapids

Both Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum had good weekends with their new topics. 

The transition from 1st topic to 2nd topic is the hardest time of the season.  Now that we've seen how other teams are approaching this topic we can make adjustments of our own.

Novice Public Forum - Paul Seim & Walt Balttige finished in 6th place, but were the highest 3 win team and both finished with outstanding speaker points. Walt was 2nd speaker in the tournament!

Varsity Public Forum - Khalid Ishani and David Ma won 3rd place.  Ironically, their only loss was to a team from Eagan that finished in 4th place.  David was 12th speaker.

Novice Lincoln-Douglas 
Bharath Muniraj 3-2 record
Joseph Annareddy 3-2
Joanna Kim 3-2
Sujit Varadhan 3-2
Sandra Chen 4-1

JV Lincoln-Douglas 
Zach Zamoff 4-1 record AND 4th place

Varsity Lincoln-Douglas
Annie Amen 3-2
Annika Smith-Ortiz 3-2
Arvind Veluvali 3-2
Connie Chao 3-2
Max Schleck 3-2
Gloria Mi 3-2 and 2nd speaker
Kyle Nicholson 4-1

We won some more speaker awards in varsity but I don't have access to a full results sheet this weekend.

Nov 8 @ Champlin Park

The Champlin Park Debate Tournament
Champlin Park High School [directions, map]
8 November 2014

Coach in Charge
Megan Koester

Bus Time
7AM depart door 7
5PM return (estimate)

Novice LD
   Aiden Swann
   Anjali Aralikar
   Bharath Muniraj
   Joanna Kim
   Joseph Annareddy
   Kanu Madhok
   Rahil Modi
   Sujit Varadhan
   Yuanxi Kuang

JV Lincoln Douglas
   Jonah Rosenthal
   Sandra Chen
   Zach Zamoff

Varsity Lincoln Douglas
   Anand Mittal
   Romi Lee
   Uma Kumar-Montei

Novice Public Forum
   Addie Cheong - Megan Langsev

JV Public Forum
   Lauren Smith - Natalie Curtain

Varsity Public Forum
   Khalid Ishani - David Ma
   Jack Hong - Richard Zu

Schedule *
Round 1: 8:30am
Round 2: 9:30am
Round 3: 10:45am (powered off of rounds 1 -2)
Lunch Break: 11:30-12:15
Round 4: 12:15pm-1:10pm (powered off of rounds 1-3)
Round 5: 1:30pm (powered off of rounds 1-4)
Final Round: 2:45pm

* tournament has a final round

Nov 7-8 @ Sioux Falls

Washington Warrior/Roosevelt Sweepstakes
Washington HS - Friday Speech
Roosevelt HS - Saturday Debate
7-8 November 2014

Coaches
Elizabeth Werness
Andy Charrier

Bus
Departs 7AM from back side of EHS (where we left for Park Hill)
Return 10PM (estimate) on Saturday

Hotel
Spring Hill Suites Sioux Falls
4304 W. Empire Place
Sioux Falls, South Dakota  57106  USA 

Friday Speech
Isha OO
Ariana OO
Maya OO
Ashab OO
Saumya DI
Gloria DI
Connie EXS
Max EXS
Matias EXS
Kyle EXS
Drew HI

Saturday Debate 
Gloria
Max
Kyle
Murray
Connie
Arvind
Annika

Nov 7-8 @ Concordia

71st Annual W.E. Lillo Invitational Debate Tournament
Concordia College, Moorhead MN
7-8 November 2013

Coaches
Bobby Ciborowski
Clay Carlson
Risha Bhattacharjee


Varsity CX Debate  
   Meredith Song - Maggie Wells
   Claire Carlson - Megan Shannahan
   Others TBD

JV CX Debate
   No entries

Novice CX Debate
   Quinn Ramsey - Zelda Kieser

Bus
Depart- 7:00AM pickup on the back side of EHS
Return- hard to estimate, might be 10PM on Saturday night.  It's about a 4 hour bus ride.

Hotel
Holiday Inn - Fargo
803 13th Ave S
Fargo, North Dakota   58103
* Hotel has a pool.  And the pool has a pirate ship.  What could be better?

Schedule
Friday, November 1st
10:00 a.m.                   Phone Registration. Call 218-299-3731 to verify your entry.
2:00 – 2:45 p.m.          Registration: Centrum in the Knutson Center       
3:00 p.m.                     General announcements: Centrum
3:15 p.m.                     Pairings Released for Round 1, 2 and 3: Centrum
4:00 p.m.                     Dismissal from Centrum
4:15 p.m.                     Round 1 all debate divisions
6:00 p.m.                     Round 2 all debate divisions
7:30 p.m.                     Dinner Break
8:00 p.m.                     Round 3 all debate divisions

Saturday, November 2nd
6:45 a.m.                     Pairings released on-line
7:30 a.m.                     Pairings posted in Wall Lounge
8:00 a.m.                     Round 4 all divisions
10:00 a.m.                 Pairings for round 5 will be released as soon as power-matching is finished.
Please do not wander off.
10:30 a.m.                 Round 5 all divisions (flip for sides)
12:00 p.m.                   Lunch Break
12:30 p.m.                   First elimination round Policy Debate
3:00 p.m.                     Awards:  Centrum
as soon                        Remaining elimination rounds

Nov 7-8 @ The Minneapple

The Minneapple (Apple Valley HS)
Friday and Saturday prelim rounds at Valley Middle School [directions, map]
Saturday elimination rounds + awards at Falcon Ridge Middle School * [directions, map]
* tournament provides a shuttle from Valley Middle to Falcon Ridge
7-8 November 2014

Coach in Charge
Tim Greenfield 

Novice Public Forum

Walt Boettge	Paul Seim
Mike Mazarra	Russell Freeman
Rachel Neirengarten	Maggie Hogan
James Kuznecoff	Owen Phernetton

Special Opportunity
Apple Valley hosts a national-level tournament at which teams from all over America fly in to compete, including the very best varsity teams in the country.  There is also a novice division and some of these schools bring their novices on this trip too.  So it's a chance to debate people from schools outside Minnesota.  Furthermore, the tournament features elimination (playoff rounds) for the top 16 or 8 teams in novice.  If you keep winning you keep debating, and if you are eliminated you can then watch the best varsity debaters and see what top-level Public Forum debate looks like.

Bus
Friday - depart 2:45 door 8 of EHS; return 9:30ish
Saturday - depart 7AM door 7 of EHS; return about 6PM

FRIDAY
3:30 Postings available in cafeterias in each building.
4:00 Round One
5:00 Round Two
5:45-6:45 Dinner
7:00 Round Three
8:15 Round Four

SATURDAY
7:30   Postings in cafeterias
8:00   Round Five
9:30   Round Six
10:15 Shuttles take Novice Debaters to Falcon Ridge Middle School
11:00 Double Octafinals (may be flighted) Varsity,
12:00-12:45 Lunch in FRMS Cafeteria (Novice Octafinals if needed)
1:15 Varsity Octafinals, Novice Quarterfinals
2:30   Varsity Quarterfinals, Novice Semifinals
3:45   Awards Ceremony at Falcon Ridge Middle School
4:30   Varsity Semifinals, Novice Finals
5:30   Varsity Finals

Iowa Caucus
Cedar Rapids Washington HS
24-26 October 2014

Coaches
Bobby Ciborowski
Brett Lind
Risha Bhattacharjee

Bus Times
Depart 4:15PM on Thursday 10/23  EHS - same spot as we used for Valley (door 13)
Return Sunday 10/26 after everybody bus is eliminated - estimate 6PM but that's a guess

** We are leaving on Thursday afternoon rather than Friday morning in hopes of being a little more rested and ready to roll on Friday at the tournament. 

Varsity CX Debate
Maggie Wells and Meredith Song
Megan Shannahan and Claire Carlson
Anne Lepow and Sukriti Rawal
Drew Sposeep and Shanelle Roman
Patrick LaChance and Elle Romanelli
Tanner Engh and Isaac Berte

Hotel Information
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Cedar Rapids Convention Complex
350 First Avenue NE | Cedar Rapids | IA | United States 52401
T: 1-319-731-4444

Friday, 24 October
11-2.00 pm      Tournament Registration at Washington HS; Room 128
2.30pm             Policy and Public Forum round one (Washington HS)  
Please do not plan to go to Franklin Middle School prior to 3.30pm.
4.30pm             Policy and Public Forum Round two
dinner break
8.00pm            Policy and Public Forum Round three

Saturday, 25 October
7.30-8.30am   complimentary breakfast at both tournament sites
8.00am         round four Policy and Public Forum (WHS)
11.00 am     round five all events
lunch break
2pm              round six all events
4.30pm        double-octofinals if necessary in varsity events; quarterfinals in NCX
6.30pm        awards assembly (WHS auditorium)
7.30pm      octofinals LD and VCX/ PF quarterfinals/ NCX semifinals (all octofinals at WHS)
Remaining Saturday elimination rounds to follow immediately
Be aware that, when possible, we will begin rounds EARLY. With this in mind, please do not leave the tournament site.

Sunday, 26 October    
All events at the Collins Rd. Marriott Hotel
8.00am         Judge strikes for both divisions
8.30am         VCX Policy quarterfinals, NCX Policy finals and L/D semifinals
Remaining elimination rounds in Policy and L/D to follow immediately.

5:30 Team Meetings

We've decided to add a Monday Meeting to our weekly practice schedule in hopes of creating more stability with our entries.  This year we are struggling with getting an accurate list of competitors for upcoming tournaments, especially in Public Forum, novice Policy debate, and novice LD.

This meeting is for all LD, public forum, and novice policy debaters. 

Our 5:30 meeting will be used to organize the team for tournaments and review some big-picture topics.

We'll meet in room 324 @ 5:30 on these days:

October 20
October 27
November 3
November 10
November 17