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The Meadows Debate Tournament 2011Results packets from this year's tournament: Lincoln-Douglas Debate Policy Debate
You are cordially invited to The Meadows School’s Ninth Annual Meadows Invitational Tournament, October 28th – 30th, 2011. We will provide competition in Varsity Policy and Lincoln Douglas debate on the 2011 and November/December topics. For Policy this is Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth’s mesosphere. Last year, Harvard-Westlake’s Jake Sonnenberg defeated College Preparatory School’s Sarah Sachs to win the Lincoln Douglas division, while Gulliver Prep AT defeated Greenhill PP to be named the policy champions. This year, Michael Bietz from The View From Tab and Scott Phillips and Bill Batterman from the 3NR will be recording a joint podcast for their websites, including comments and questions from the audience. We hope that you are able to attend and participate! There is no entry deadline or entry limit in Policy. There is a four entry limit in LD initially, to allow more schools to participate. We will accept entries until we are full. We can accommodate up to approximately 56 teams and 76 LDers. Entry will be through the Joy of Tournaments site. Questions and hired judge requests must be sent to timalderete@yahoo.com. Directions, announcements and judging preference instructions will be sent out in the weeks prior to the tournament through Joy of Tournaments. Both Divisions will consist of six preliminary debates. We will break to at least Octofinals. Power matching in Policy will be based on Wins, High Low Points and Opponents Wins, Total Points and Judge Variance. Power matching in LD will be based on Wins, High Low Points and Opponents Wins, Total Points and Judge Variance, with a High High Round Three and High Low Rounds Four through Five. We will use side equalization in elimination rounds. We will never lag pair. We will never flip on stage for elimination rounds. Up to 16 teams/debaters with winning records will advance – we will never artificially limit Octofinals. We will always release printed copies of pairings, as well as provide electronic notifications through Joy of Tournaments. We will be using the Joy of Tournaments Warm Room feature, but will not be including speaker points.
Photograph taken by Natalie Kim
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