Comments on: Becca Traber is Houston-Memorial Champion

By: Sasha Chada

Sasha Chada — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:06:04 +0000

Excellent tournament, guys. Plaudits to Muthu for his well-earned bid, Becca for her amazing 30+ argument spreads, Greg and Cockroft for doing well, and “The Race” and “The Donnati” for some amazing rounds. Oh, and Harry Yu for judging.

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new topic — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:29:40 +0000

2007 November/December Lincoln Financial Group/NFL L/D Debate Topic

Resolved: In the United States, plea bargaining in exchange for testimony is unjust.

By: Cockroft

Cockroft — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:04:37 +0000

oh hellz ya

By: J. Zhao

J. Zhao — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:49:24 +0000

Oh snap, did you really cartwheel, Cockroft?!

By: J. Zhao

J. Zhao — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:48:22 +0000

Congrats to Becca & Muthu. Now I don’t feel so bad about downing to the latter in prelims.

Still, missing breaks by 1 speak is still a… pain. Damn you, Quinn, and your cartwheels!

By: Peter Damrosch

Peter Damrosch — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:57:42 +0000

Congrats Grant, David and Jessica

By: Harry Yu

Harry Yu — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:28:52 +0000

Memorial = awesome tournament, always.

By: Saboor

Saboor — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:50:07 +0000

congrats paul!

By: Madeline

Madeline — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:49:10 +0000

Congrats Becca! Three bids already!!! I hope to see you at Marks!
Also, hi to David, Todd, Sasha, Ryan, Devin, Grant, and Ben. This tournament sounds like it was awesome! You guys amaze me…

By: matt aks

matt aks — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:46:06 +0000

congrats to danny siso on clearing. nice job!

By: Cody Gray

Cody Gray — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:16:47 +0000

Policy Finals -
Jesuit HN (aff) def. Mercer Island KC (neg) (5-0)

Policy Semis -
Jesuit HN (neg) def. Westwood MX (aff)
Mercer Island KC def. Jesuit GO

Policy Quarters –
Westwood MX def. Grapevine BG (3-0)
Jesuit HN def. Westwood SX (2-1)
Jesuit GO def. Deer Park RB (3-0?)
Mercer Island KC def. Grapevine FM (3-0)

Congrats to all those who earned bids in both debate events; some very well deserved people had an excellent tournament this weekend.

By: Alex Hsie

Alex Hsie — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:02:44 +0000

good job Muthu. I totally didn’t expect that one!
As usual, Traber dominates.
And good job X, you’re better than your record at the last 2 tournaments show.

By: Khurram

Khurram — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:55:30 +0000

Congrats to Saif, Paul, and Grant.

By: Jason Zhou

Jason Zhou — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:32:19 +0000

congrats Becca and Ben

By: Jishnu

Jishnu — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:30:36 +0000

Muthu is my hero

By: Jerry Crist

Jerry Crist — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:04:30 +0000

Good job Muthu

By: Brian Agler

Brian Agler — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:23:40 +0000

Ok, I’ve got a lot of congratulations to dispense.

First off, X, you are amazing, keep up the awesomeness.
Great job to Dulles and their coaching staff, I expect great things
To Ben Clancy, you are way good
To Muthu, nice job on the bid, I’d be lying if I didn’t say I expected it
And to Becca…no surprise here, she owns

By: Chris Castillo

Chris Castillo — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:48:52 +0000

Congratulations to Muthu and Becca.
And a big thank you to Cecil Trent for hosting another fantastic tournament.

By: Jon Cruz

Jon Cruz — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:46:03 +0000

Congratulations to Becca and Muthu! Becca seems more than poised to continue a serious streak of success and have a seriously dominant senior year.

I want to echo the congratulations to Muthu on a very well-earned bid. I’ve had the pleasure of judging him a number of times and hosting him last year at Vassar and I am so happy to learn of his success at this most competitive of tournaments. Great job!

By: Catherine Tarsney

Catherine Tarsney — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:59:58 +0000

Congrats to Becca and Ben

By: nathan abell

nathan abell — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:00:16 +0000

congrats to everyone who cleared, but most so to muthu on a very deserved bid. i only judged him a couple times at greenhill, but it was more than obvious there that you very much deserve it.

By: Rachel Vogel

Rachel Vogel — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:29:04 +0000

Congrats Muthu! Amazing and very impressive performance, you deserve this!
And congrats to Becca of course!
Congrats to Ben and Andrew for their cartwheels, although one I didn’t see, and one I wish I hadn’t of.

By: Vineet

Vineet — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:49:30 +0000

Major congrats to Paul on an amazing run. Congrats also to Roddy, Jason, Todd, David and Devin.

By: Cockroft

Cockroft — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:40:57 +0000

WOOT Cartwheel!

By: quinn olivarez

quinn olivarez — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:32:02 +0000

huge congrats to muthu. you have come so far as a debater in the last 2 years, and you have more than earned this bid. even if you couldn’t make it out to st. mark’s or another bid tournament, a loss to jake nebel in the bid round at greenhill, coupled with this fantastic performance, is more than worthy of an at large.

ben, congrats on semis apperances at the last two TOC tournaments you’ve been to

becca, of course you deserve major congrats for all the success you’ve had this year. you’ve more than earned it, and yeah.

also big congrats to both the strake jesuit and dulles squads. john and yim clearing 4 debaters as far as quarters, in addition to the strake squad having such a strong presence all the way to the bid round.

also, congrats to andrew cockroft on a perfect cartwheel. and breaking, i guess.

By: jes jeang

jes jeang — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:25:36 +0000

congrats Muthu and Becca!

By: Devin Race

Devin Race — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:24:33 +0000

Congrats to Ben and Paul (2nd time bid round-er at this tournament)
Also, congrats to Strake for breaking six (!) and to Jason–the true octafinalist (yeah, tab room)
And… Becca!
Winning another ToC tournament… You=awesome.
More proof that you shouldn’t doubt yourself.
Also, what was the panel for finals?

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:53:17 +0000

Go Becca!

By: Chris Castillo

Chris Castillo — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:31:08 +0000

Policy semis:
Two Dallas Jesuit teams
Mercer Island
Westwood

By: Ryan Lester

Ryan Lester — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:17:11 +0000

A huge congrats to Muthu for getting a bid an on a great performance this weekend. Also, congrats to Becca on another bid and to everyone else who cleared

By: greg jeffers

greg jeffers — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:45:50 +0000

I lost to ben in quarters
kiwi lost to muthu in quarters
it is becca vs muthu in finals

massive congrats to muthu, he totaly deserves this bid.

By: Mohit Bangia

Mohit Bangia — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:03:15 +0000

bellaire ma vs westwood bc
the other semi

By: gary

gary — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:49:09 +0000

tyger v. becca in semis

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By: Jeffrey Miller

Jeffrey Miller — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:39:05 +0000

Policy Octos:
SFA RB vs Grapevine FM
Grapevine BG VS Crosby SM
Deer Park BR vs Grapevine MJ
Dallas Jesuit HN vs Kinkaid SK
Dallas Jesuit OG vs Westwood WS
Mercer Island KC vs Hightower SC
Westwood MX vs Fullerton Union GS
Westwood SX vs Bellaire VK

By: Jeffrey Miller

Jeffrey Miller — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:10:04 +0000

Policy breaks:

Austin SFA BR
BellaireVK
Crosby MS
Deer Park BR
Fullerton Union GS
Grapevine BG
Grapevine FM
Grapevine MJ
Hightower SC
Jesuit HN
Jesuit OG
Kinkaid SK
Mercer KC
Westwood MX
Westwood SX
Westwood WS

By: Sam Duby

Sam Duby — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:04:24 +0000

WOW!!! Jerry Fugit has made his return to debate. This is definitely like Ali putting the gloves back on or Jordan lacing up the Nikes again.

This can’t be missed!!!

Let’s tee up a finals panel of Duby and Fugit. We don’t even need a 3rd. There shall be no split.