Debate -- tournament results

Well -- the tournament weekend is over... now, I'll do some weaning off of debate and work my way into an actual break period...

The team did very well this weekend --

NPQRST results... Rex / McWiggins were 4-2, made it to elims and dropped... I wish we had more time with these two, I think they would be pretty successful. Their record as a pair is great and if this tournament counted for KQRS points, it would likely put them in the top 100 in the country. D1/D2 did a bit better, loosing in semi-finals to the current state champs. With a more nationals-like panel they probably would have won.

NFLAQRD-LD results.. we did two of these tournaments... D1 lost twice in finals -- to different members of a friend school from the south.

Made-up but still pretty interesting NPQRST-LD event... McWiggins lost to D2 in semi-finals and D2 won finals. This is actually our first tournament win this year -- and actually Century's first ever tournament win period. Problem is that it is a kind of made-up event... but, it is a legit event anyway. I like that D2 won it -- and I would have been happy with McWiggins doing so as well. It is good for D2 to see he can debate and win without D1.... sure, D1 is good --maybe even great -- but a great team needs two debaters working together, and if D2 is just a puppet for D1, they won't do nearly as well.

We have next weekend off, the following weekend is NPQRS --- and our long trip to Oregon begins.