Live from the (C)TOC: Congress
posted by David Schraub on May 2nd, 2005
Live from the TOC
Matt is coached by Lisa Miller. John is coached by Alicia Slavis.
FINALISTS
1. Matt Cynamon (Nova, FL)
2. John Scuito (CBA-Albany (NY)
3. Brand Kroeger, Fort Walton Beach, FL)
4. Zach Hindin (Wellington, FL) (PO)
5. David Rokeach (CBA-Albany, NY)
6. Darshan Subramanian (CBA-Albany, NY)
Meghan Kelley (Sacred Heart HS, MA)
Carole Muedder (Myers Park HS, NC)
J.T. McDaniels (CBA-Albany, NY)
Ben Walker (Nova, FL)
Mark Knowles (Southlake Caroll, TX)
Eric Heights (Southlake Caroll, TX)
Chad Reese
David Rotberg (Myers Park (NC)
Steven Spitzer (Ridge, NJ)
and
The final round panel was composed of Messers Jacobi (Rufus King, WI), Wysong (Trinity, FL), and Zach Prax (Apple Valley, MN).
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Posted from: 68.198.153.246
May 2nd, 2005 13:23
I use to do Congress… Scuito is really good. Good job guys
Posted from: 64.136.49.227
May 2nd, 2005 16:37
Wow, Congrats to Southlake Carrol for representing Texas
Posted from: 150.203.2.60
May 2nd, 2005 20:05
Does anyone know whether changing the TOC to Kentucky made it less biased towards the east coast? I see the Texas people on there and that’s cool, but I mean overall compared to, say, last year.
Posted from: 137.22.120.67
May 3rd, 2005 00:03
This year’s top 6 consisted of 3 New Yorkers and 3 Floridians. Last year, it was 1 New Yorker and 5 Floridians. The year before, it was one student from Illinois, one from Massachusetts, two from Florida, one from North Carolina, and one from New Jersey (that was a nice and diverse year). The first year I believe was 5 Floridians and one New Yorker again (but I’m not positive).
Only once has a non-easterner even placed (but he won). Prior to this year, non-east coasters had made it to finals a total of 4 times to my knowledge: once by Jack Soltysik of Illinois, once by some girl from Ankeny in Iowa who had never seen the Ocean before she came to Florida, and twice by the incomparable and unspellable Julia Kamenetsky of Iowa. Non-easterners have persistently been under-represented at the tournament–Iowa has always sent a few people, Soltysik came down from Illinois, Arkansas sent 3 last year, and Ashley Hatcher came out from Texas, but there have been very very few people overall.
Part of this is due to the dearth of major congress tournaments off the east coast; Glenbrooks, Stanford, and Berkeley are probably the only ones approaching the quality of the big east tournaments (and I’ve heard mixed reports on the last two). Either the midwest and west has to figure out how to draw the east (St. Marks looks promising here), or the midwest and west has to come out east and make some noise at Harvard, Blue Key, et al.
Posted from: 150.203.2.60
May 3rd, 2005 20:24
Little known fact, her name was Amanda Freel from Ankeny.