Chris Theis Wins the Iowa Round Robin
Ben Schifberg and Chris Theis
IOWA CITY – Congratulations to the finalists at this year’s Iowa Round Robin! The by-invitation tournament, hosted by the A. Craig Baird Debate Forum at the University of Iowa, came to a close this afternoon. The tournament cleared to the Top Twelve.
The final round featured Apple Valley High School’s Chris Theis and South Eugene High School’s Ben Schifberg. On a 3-0 decision, Chris — the runner-up at last year’s Iowa Round Robin — claimed the title. Congratulations to both competitors!
Chris is coached by Pam Cady Wycoff, Cherian Koshy, and Tim Hogan. Ben is coached by Wesley Craven. Photographs will be uploaded tomorrow.
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PARTIAL OCTAS
(1) Apple Valley CT advances without debating
(2) South Eugene BS advances without debating
(3) Apple Valley MK advances without debating
(4) Valley RB advances without debating
(5) Meadows AS def. (12) Millard South AB (Adelle Burk)
(11) Dowling Catholic LK def. (6) Harker DR (Deepa Ramakrishnan)
(10) Hockaday BV def. (7) Palo Alto PL (Peter Lee)
(9) Bronx Science MD def. (8) Hockaday DB (Divya Balan)
ELITE EIGHT
(1) Apple Valley CT def. (9) Bronx Science MD (Matt Dunay)
(2) South Eugene BS def. (10) Hockaday BV (Berenice Villela)
(11) Dowling Catholic LK def. (3) Apple Valley MK (Michelle Keohane)
(5) Meadows AS def. (4) Valley RB (Ross Brown)
FINAL FOUR
(1) Apple Valley CT def. (5) Meadows AS (Amanda Signorelli)
(2) South Eugene BS def. (11) Dowling Catholic LK (Laura Kever)
FINALS
(1) Apple Valley CT def. (2) South Eugene BS (Ben Schifberg)
CHAMPION
(1) Apple Valley CT (Chris Theis)
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TOP SPEAKERS
1. Amanda Signorelli (The Meadows School, NV)
2. Chris Theis (Apple Valley High School, MN)
3. Ben Schifberg (South Eugene High School, OR)
4. Peter Lee (Palo Alto High School, CA)
5. Deepa Ramakrishnan (The Harker School, CA)
6. Berenice Villela (The Hockaday School, TX)
7. Divya Balan (The Hockaday School, TX)
8. Malini Veerappan (Palo Alto High School, CA)
9. Ross Brown (Valley High School, IA)
10. Matt Dunay (The Bronx High School of Science, NY)
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Posted from: 68.125.55.144
April 13th, 2007 22:10
Good luck to all participating, especially the Valley debaters.
Posted from: 63.254.131.83
April 14th, 2007 01:38
In true south eugene fashion, tardy to the party.
Nothing beats getting off a plane full of rednecks and being greeted by Jon Cruz’s smile! Ahhh…back to ‘normal’.
Posted from: 200.114.202.121
April 14th, 2007 04:12
how could wesley embarrass me like this?
Posted from: 70.215.154.221
April 14th, 2007 07:44
Awww, Wes. I try. :o)
Posted from: 162.83.235.41
April 14th, 2007 15:43
I have just been informed that Jon’s computer is experiencing some technical difficulties but coverage of the RR should resume very soon.
Posted from: 63.254.131.83
April 14th, 2007 18:40
I’m back!
Posted from: 64.12.122.198
April 14th, 2007 19:01
good luck to matt dunay… hav fun.. congrats on breaking
Posted from: 75.35.211.100
April 14th, 2007 19:05
wow nice job amanda and peter
Posted from: 162.83.166.73
April 14th, 2007 19:07
Congrats Dunay and good luck!
Posted from: 208.120.180.67
April 14th, 2007 19:08
oh dunay
Posted from: 162.83.235.41
April 14th, 2007 19:11
Nice job Matt. Good luck tomorrow!
Posted from: 67.119.14.111
April 14th, 2007 19:16
Good luck Chris.
Posted from: 70.107.38.216
April 14th, 2007 19:18
Nice job on clearing Dunay, good luck tomorrow!
Posted from: 71.202.53.245
April 14th, 2007 19:21
YAY – congrats Deepa Berenice n Ross!
Posted from: 66.32.56.25
April 14th, 2007 19:54
gj on breaking to dunay, theis, and michelle, and good luck
Posted from: 76.193.219.132
April 14th, 2007 20:09
I’d say goodjob/goodluck matt…but seems like that’s been taken care of by…many people
Posted from: 75.36.149.91
April 14th, 2007 20:18
nice peter, keep it up :D Also nice job malini on the speaker award.
Posted from: 152.17.62.80
April 14th, 2007 20:35
Congrats Dunay!!!
Posted from: 24.215.215.98
April 14th, 2007 20:44
good luck dunay
Posted from: 71.202.53.245
April 14th, 2007 20:53
Congrats to Divya, Amanda, Berenice, and Deepa.
Posted from: 76.184.36.244
April 14th, 2007 22:12
congrats berenice and divya!
whoop!!
Posted from: 75.18.168.18
April 14th, 2007 23:50
yay berenice and deeeepa :)
Posted from: 70.234.145.205
April 15th, 2007 00:30
deepaaaaaa
Posted from: 64.12.117.11
April 15th, 2007 08:27
NICE dunay
Posted from: 69.3.94.155
April 15th, 2007 08:31
congrats to chris, amanda, peter, and ross.
Posted from: 207.172.73.91
April 15th, 2007 09:26
congrats and gl deepa
Posted from: 69.115.223.185
April 15th, 2007 10:23
congrats to kermit the frog (Bronx Science KF)
Posted from: 162.83.131.162
April 15th, 2007 13:36
Congrats Matt
Posted from: 71.202.236.215
April 15th, 2007 13:40
yay peter! yay malini!
Posted from: 68.209.198.15
April 15th, 2007 15:08
congrats deepa
Posted from: 129.15.127.254
April 15th, 2007 15:15
Is Ross brown a freshman? I know he didn’t debate last year. If so, breaking (as 4th seed) is hella impressive.
Posted from: 207.28.196.149
April 15th, 2007 16:15
Yea, Ross is a freshman.
Apparently finals is theis over schifberg
Posted from: 216.83.253.42
April 15th, 2007 16:48
Congrats Chris
Posted from: 71.214.196.190
April 15th, 2007 16:56
Congrats to Chris for winning and to Schifberg for getting to finals.
Posted from: 75.4.11.92
April 15th, 2007 17:23
dunay and schiffy are monsters
Posted from: 75.54.41.249
April 15th, 2007 17:30
Congrats to Chris, Ben, and all of the other excellent competitors.
b
Posted from: 66.41.128.87
April 15th, 2007 17:43
Way to go Chris Michelle and Batman!
Posted from: 150.108.232.25
April 15th, 2007 18:26
CONGRATS MATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted from: 24.173.0.187
April 15th, 2007 19:00
CONGRATS CHRISSSSS!!! =D!!!!!!!!
Posted from: 66.32.56.25
April 15th, 2007 19:37
congrats theis!
Posted from: 68.88.136.175
April 15th, 2007 20:06
congrats to the hockaday debaters for a great showing.
Posted from: 63.197.0.78
April 15th, 2007 21:36
congrats peter!!
Posted from: 24.18.148.106
April 15th, 2007 22:35
BEN SCHIFBERG
WES CRAVEN
DREAM TEAM
Posted from: 205.221.233.32
April 16th, 2007 06:56
Thanks to Paul and the University of Iowa Debate team for putting on another great event. The hospitality, judging, atmosphere make this one of our favorite debate events of the year!
Posted from: 167.206.203.14
April 16th, 2007 09:48
Congratulations to Chris and Ben on an interesting and competitive final round. You are both unquestionably top debaters from the sophomore class and it was awesome seeing you compete this weekend.
I want to take a moment to thank Paul Bellus for an absolutely fantastic weekend.
Despite all of my debate-related travels, this was actually my first time in the state of Iowa, and I cannot imagine a more gracious host. Matt and I had a great time all weekend, from the delicious food to engaging critics to beautiful trophies to some more delicious food, every moment was memorable and a lot of fun.
Thank you so much, Paul. We look forward to future trips to the Hawkeye State!
Posted from: 71.237.221.115
April 16th, 2007 10:29
Paul and the Iowa team delivered an outstanding round robin. This judging pool was a relief, a chance for the debaters to focus only on execution and not on excuses.
Ben and I threw off the chains of adaptive paranoia (“so, I can do pretty much whatever I want”) to the occasional offense of my educational sensibilities…Ben you’re still in trouble for ASPEC ;), and FYI anytime I hear someone come out of your outround and say “the round hinges on whether or not ben’s balibar ev made sense” I lose several years of my life.
The opportunity to see this generation of debaters begin the throw down-amazing! If I wasn’t coaching the outstanding South sophmores and the notorious r.e.b.a.r. I think I’d buy 2 years worth of popcorn, buy tickets to the next two years of circuit tournaments, and become a professional debate spectator (A foam finger, air horn and giant cowboy hat would be a great addition to any round).
I confirmed once again that I love everyone in the debate community (if you just rolled your eyes then I love you even more!) Sometimes I have to work a little harder than usual-though not for anyone at this round robin! Thanks friends for such a great experience.
Oh, and Cherian, Tim and Chris-congratulations! Chris: you scare me. In a good way. :)
Finally, a quick eulogy for that damned evolver case (survivor, evolver, revolver, bevolver, benvolver); I thought it had finally died but we resurrected it for the round robin, and it continued to defy fate by winning rounds. In LD we always banter over ‘what justice is’: All those rounds it was extended with little to no responsiveness at the case level finally caught up to it: for a case that said science is truth, extinction is always just around the corner and morality is our salvation…A kritik of scientific rationalism WAS JUSTICE. :)
Posted from: 68.209.198.15
April 16th, 2007 10:55
wes, is the balibar evidence that terrorism disad?
p.s. congrats to the finalists
Posted from: 141.150.147.210
April 16th, 2007 11:34
Congrats to Laura… she is awesome.
:)
Posted from: 199.74.105.212
April 16th, 2007 11:44
Atta baby bro, you’re making us real proud
Posted from: 71.237.221.115
April 16th, 2007 11:51
nah, the terrorism stuff was either baudrillard or teays, i think. Ben would know (it changed round by round).
the balibar evidence is an old card i cut for Ben’s bro Jeremy long ago -it’s just a restatement of the basic ‘free decisions as opposed to necessary decisions are prerequisites for justice’-the confusion i joke about is that it’s often tricky to package (the resolutional link was nothing special-just another ‘corps can’t make free decisions so negate’ but the packaging was meant to deal with inevitable ac preempts).
wade, you should be the model for how to become a better debater; you self-motivated learners are the #&@^
Posted from: 24.90.121.48
April 16th, 2007 12:44
MAJOR congrats to ben and matt
Posted from: 128.253.8.146
April 16th, 2007 18:13
Sounds like you brought a piece of the ole Deacon AC back, MarkWesley. Way to go, Benj, on another great performance.
-Sam
Posted from: 76.105.218.222
April 17th, 2007 17:14
The RR was amazing, thanks a bunch Paul Bellus for an incredible tournament, from the movie, food, judging, 10-min flex prep, etc. Congrats to Chris. Thanks for all the comments guys. And especially thanks to my many other coaches/mentors besides Wes, like Jeremy, James, and Mostafa.
Posted from: 24.6.159.5
April 18th, 2007 18:51
Congrats to Dunay, Chris, Amanda, Ross, and Peter on an impressive performance. Keep up the good work. I’m sure all of you will.