Archive for February, 2008

3 break in Harvard Public Forum; awaiting Congress Finals announcement

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Congratulations to Ramy El Kalioby & Lee Schuitema (4-2, seed 57), Suman Sivasubramaniam & Vignesh Sivasubramaniam (5-1, seed 21), and Angelica Chavez & Jesse Schwab (5-1, seed 24) who broke to Triple Octafinals in Public Forum Debate at Harvard. The triples round is being held right now and results of these rounds will be released immediately following.

Geoff Yost & Allie MacKinnon were 4-2, missing the break by mere points. Sean Ege & Everett Lozzi and David Marshall & Sam Williams were both 3-3. Full preliminary results are here.

We are awaiting the results of congress semifinals and who will break to finals.

9 Break in Harvard Congress

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Congratulations to the 9 people from MP who broke in the most difficult Congress tournament in the nation. The following are semifinalists and will receive a bid to the Tournament of Champions.

Lucas Scholl
Brandon Huskisson
Hannah Hindel
Rafe Kettler
Priyang Shah
Zak Kobos
Tanvika Gupta
Elena Botella
Vicky Cheng

These students compete in semifinals tonight. LATE tonight we will know who breaks to finals.

We are awaiting breaks for LD, PFD, and some IE.

Porter Ridge Cancelled, TFL States Reminder

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

The Porter Ridge Debate Tournament, which would have been February 23, has been cancelled.

I personally encourage everyone to enter the TFL State Tournament.
As a thank you for your efforts at Laird Lewis – Varsity members will be allowed to go free (room, registration, bus) if they have competed for 3 tournaments this year.
Novice members will be allowed to go free (room, registration, bus) if they've competed for 2 tournaments this year.

Lucas Scholl
Co-President 07-08