Comments on: Shadman Zaman Wins Yale Title

By: PA Clears At Yale Invitational : The Debatosphere

PA Clears At Yale Invitational : The Debatosphere — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:21:47 +0000

[...] New Haven, Connecticut – At Yale University, four Pennsylvania Lincoln-Douglas debaters were able to clear to competition on Sunday from a varsity field of over 160 debaters. [...]

By: Beena

Beena — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:44:14 +0000

I have to say this tourney was the best run I have been to in the four I have been attending. Much thanks to the tab staff – I know its exhausting but ya’ll did do a fantatic job.

I have to say I was incredibly impressed by a number of debates I saw in the 17 rounds I judged (I don’t think I have ever judged that many in a year – much less ONE tourney!) But special props to Issac Blok (SP?) and Jake Nebel (which I still don’t know how to pronounce!) who just kicked it into high gear this past weekend. I look forward to watching many more interesting/educational rounds from many other debaters this year!

Of course, I have to thank my financial responsibility too! Chetan you rock my world!

Congrats SHODMON! :) Love, your brown mama (the other one . . . of course!)

By: neil basu

neil basu — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:03:31 +0000

congrats to nikita and thurm!

its nice to see some up and comers back when i was debating now become forces to be reckoned with. congrats to sam dharia, vineet singal, marc wallach, isaac bloch and sohail syed!

By: ctheis

ctheis — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:26:40 +0000

Congrats to Jake, Ravi and Shadman.

By: Jay Garlapati

Jay Garlapati — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:56:51 +0000

Congratulations to Mike C, Lisa, Karlyn, Zak, Samda, and of course the other JG from Pa.

By: Earl S.

Earl S. — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:42:19 +0000

Congratulations to both debaters.

Why do I think that Ben just copied and pasted Davids comment…

By: Ben Holguin

Ben Holguin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:27:58 +0000

congrats jake and ravi!!!!

By: David McNeil

David McNeil — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:15:04 +0000

congrats jake and ravi!!!

By: Gurdane

Gurdane — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:35:12 +0000

jake and ravi — you guys are awesome

mohit — ‘grats for 3rd speaker & dubs

also congrats to vineet and sohail for octas and sam and dharia for dubs

By: jane kessner

jane kessner — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:28:44 +0000

congrats to stef, nathaniel, and especially ben for winning jv! awesome job.

By: ENoble

ENoble — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:12:50 +0000

Congrats to Stefanie and Nathanial and especially Ben Lewis for winning it all! Awesome job! Also, congrats to Nikita and Isaac on the bid

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:59:30 +0000

congrats to Ben, Nathaniel, and Stefanie!

By: gabe

gabe — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:20:27 +0000

Yale this year was probably the best it’s been in the three years i’ve been coming. I had excellent judging, especially in the rounds that really counted. The tourney ran remarkably efficiently. Major kudos to vaughan/menick/the tabroom in general for making this run so well.

side note: I realize that the move to a more compact venue was probably integral to the greater efficiency, but i’d really like to see the tournament brought back to campus next year, just because there’s more to do there.

By: carl shan

carl shan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:48:13 +0000

ben lewis = YES!

By: Shea Strausman

Shea Strausman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:00:05 +0000

Big congrats to all who cleared, especially the kids at Nisky, who will bring home those bids soon enough. Keep at it, guys,

By: Pennsylvania Debate Blog » Blog Archive » PA Clears At Yale Invitational

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:43:55 +0000

[...] New Haven, Connecticut – At Yale University, four Pennsylvania Lincoln-Douglas debaters were able to clear to competition on Sunday from a varsity field of over 160 debaters. [...]

By: wade

wade — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:07:07 +0000

congrats jake, ravi, and shadman

By: ali

ali — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:20:39 +0000

the judges in
(6) Sacred Heart SZ def. (7) Trinity Prep RS (Ravi Sankar)

were

(Boyle, Brundage, Furman, Morrow, Brown*)

so baller.

By: Chetan

Chetan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:05:18 +0000

Thanks to the Yale staff for another great tournament. Congrats to Jake on his consistently excellent performances, and to Shadman (not Shodman) on not sucking. :)

In case anyone’s interested, the semis and finals panels and decisions were as follows:

SEMIS
(5) Trinity Prep JN def. (1) Berkeley Carroll IB (Isaac Bloch)

5-0 (Anthony Berryhill, Anjan Choudhury, Jon Gordon, Chetan Hertzig, Adam Nelson)

(6) Sacred Heart SZ def. (7) Trinity Prep RS (Ravi Sankar)

4-1 (Pam Brown*, Charlie Furman, Susan Morrow…I think this is right, but I’m not sure who the other judges were)

FINALS

(6) Sacred Heart SZ def. (5) Trinity Prep JN (Jake Nebel)

7-0 (Pam Brown, Rachel Foster, Dylan Gadek, Lauren Hallett, Matt Levinson, James Luccarelli, Shaina Wright)

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:58:06 +0000

yay shadmannnnnn!

By: Jon Cruz

Jon Cruz — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:13:30 +0000

I forgot to mention before that the YDA debaters were really helpful both before the tournament and throughout the weekend in terms of logistics and organization. Grant May, one of the tournament directors, was particularly awesome in helping us with the hotel over the summer, but the Rookie of the Year awards from what I could tell should be going to freshmen Pam Brown and Tommy Bodeau. They just seemed to know the answer to everything. (Except for when Pam actually insisted that Ariel was not a true Disney Princess. Needless to say, I set the record straight.) Future tournament directors, anyone?

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:49:16 +0000

Way to gooooooo Ben Lewisss! you rock! Congrats!

By: Karlyn

Karlyn — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:49:27 +0000

isaac picked up 3-0 in octas

By: Sohail

Sohail — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:47:56 +0000

3-0 in my octas round
2-1 in my dubs round (Berryhill, Furman, idk*)

By: jacob levi

jacob levi — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:58:11 +0000

a huge congrats is in order to isaac, whose break out performance this weekend will surely be the first of many. also congrats to jake, ravi and shadman. yall are real good.

By: mjocon

mjocon — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:29:54 +0000

contrary to whatever the packet may say, i did not judge rd 3 between tess mcnulty and jake nebel.

By: Anjan

Anjan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:21:17 +0000

Of course, major congrats Ben, and thank you for all your hard work already this year — and the same to Nathaniel, Stef, and all the Whitmanites — yall are a wonderful team.

Also major kudos to Jake and Shadman. Jake, I’m not sure if I’ve ever voted for someone that many times within 24 hours. Shadman, if you keep winning tourneys, I may even accept the resemblance at some point….may…. anyhow, congrats!

By: gary

gary — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:02:50 +0000

congrats to shadman and jake.

By: Mo

Mo — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:13:16 +0000

Special shoutout to Jon for being Jon. He is clearly very good at being so. :) And also saying hi to like everyone and being nice to like everyone

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:50:36 +0000

Congratulations Whitman! Great job.

By: Jon Cruz

Jon Cruz — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:41:10 +0000

Congratulations Shadman and Jake, and congratulations Ben and Cara!

Special shout out to the Bronx Science crew for a lot of very organized, very disciplined hard work this weekend. I am pleased.

And thanks to Menick, Joe, and Chris for all the laughs. :o)

By: Ajay Ketkar

Ajay Ketkar — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:32:11 +0000

good job Shadman

By: Mo

Mo — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:21:51 +0000

Congrats to Shadman on an impressive negation in finals. I didnt think Id see a spread like Nikita’s against Sohail but somehow he topped that.
Congrats to Nikhil, Both Nisky Sams on Dubs. Karlyn for Octas as a sopho (clearly off the pretty vote right?) :). Nikita on the well deserved bid, and an amazing word coverage. Sohail on Octas Vineet and Melanie.
Ashlyn on going 4-2 low.

By: Sydney

Sydney — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:01:44 +0000

Way to go Ben!!
Congrats!!

By: gabe

gabe — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:51:25 +0000

Noel:

What’s the distinction between Hi-Lo and Double Hi-Lo?

By: Cameron

Cameron — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:29:56 +0000

Awesome job Vineet!
(especially considering he had to flow with a broken thumb)

By: tyler

tyler — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:23:50 +0000

nice Shadman

way to represent B213!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:10:25 +0000

Again, congrats Ravi, Karlyn, Vineet, Steph, Shireen, and Nikita.
And especially to Ravi and Nikita on the bids.

By: ld

ld — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:08:30 +0000

which case did jake run in finals???

By: Karlyn

Karlyn — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:59:13 +0000

jake affirmed

By: Devin Race

Devin Race — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:56:45 +0000

Jake Nebel, you are uncontrollable.
Nice way to follow your Greenhill awesomeness.
Also congrats to Issac.

Who affirmed and who negated in finals?

By: Roshal

Roshal — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:52:04 +0000

Congrats to Ravi and Shadman for a hella intense semis round. As well as to John Yip and Tess and the Niskayuna team.

By: CK

CK — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:43:06 +0000

Jake Nebel is a balla.

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:36:28 +0000

I’m curious. Does anyone know why they used double hi-lo to rank the speakers at this tournament. In JV there were only five rounds. That meant that after wins. In varsity four ballots were being dropped.

Should a JV who received these speakers points:
30 29 28 26 25
really be ranked higher than someone who received:
30 30 27 27 27

Average points would seem a coarse, but better way to rate judges than to take the median ballot.

Double hi-lo was ranked fourth (after wins, hi-lo and total speakers points) back when we had to order teams without computers and couldn’t calculate judge’s variance or strength of opposition. For a tournament to use it as a second tie-breaker when tabbing with a computer seems odd to me.

By: Karlyn

Karlyn — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:31:24 +0000

what a fun tournament!
congrats to…
isaac, JP, mo, sam, zak, shireen, nikita, shadman, mike, steph, ravi, and nikhil.
as well as everyone else who broke!
awesome job.

and thanks eric, akshay, sam, alicia, nicole, and mike.

By: naveen

naveen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:30:53 +0000

i said it before and i’ll say it again: alan tong is going to tear it the fuck up this year.

congrats to everyone who cleared and especially to shadman

By: Sohail

Sohail — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:54:30 +0000

haha forgot i posted, man im tired

By: Sohail

Sohail — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:53:58 +0000

Props to Damrosch, Marc, Mike, Vineet, and Jonathan Yip.

By: alan

alan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:47:51 +0000

contrats to shadman, an incredibly talented debater who i’m sure will have amazing success this year.

contrats to tess and nikita on swt bids

By: alan

alan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:47:10 +0000

thanks gabe :o)

By: Madeline

Madeline — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:44:47 +0000

Congrats Jake! You’re awesome, dude…

By: Contillo.

Contillo. — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:29:42 +0000

Major congrats to Lisa, Karlyn, Klinger, Sam, Sohail, Samit, Usha, and Marc.

By: David Chen

David Chen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:18:22 +0000

Congrats to Alan, Nikita, and Tess on the bid!

By: Thurm

Thurm — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:46:21 +0000

Nice… Lol. But at least we got the number of judges in finals.

By: Daks

Daks — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:44:24 +0000

hmm…i didnt see thrums post.

By: Daks

Daks — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:43:07 +0000

Berkeley Carroll IB vs. Trinity Prep JN

Sacred Heart SZ vs. Trinity Prep RS

Finals:

Sacred Heart SZ vs Trinity prep JN

Shadman won on a 7-0 decision

By: Thurm

Thurm — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:41:25 +0000

Some results/decisions

Octas:
Trinity JN def. Millburn US (3-0)

Quarters:
Berkeley Carroll IB def. Scarsdale NL (3-0)
Trinity JN def. Millburn TM
Sacred Heart SZ def. Ridge AT
Trinity RS def. Stuyvesant JDu

Semis:
Sacred Heart SZ def. Trinity RS (4-1)
Trinity JN def. Berkeley Caroll IB

Finals:
Shadman won. I forget how many judges there were, but it was unanimous.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:37:38 +0000

Oops, sorry, Karlyn–congrats!

By: NiskayunaSD

NiskayunaSD — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:37:07 +0000

congrats to JP, Mo, Grondhal, Sohail, Nikita, Karlyn, Lisa, Contillo, Nikhil, Marc, Vineet, and Zak.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:34:20 +0000

anyone know more results?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:30:58 +0000

congrats Nikita and Shadman

Also congrats to Ravi, Jake and Isaac

By: Sachin

Sachin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:25:05 +0000

Congrats to contillo, nikita, grondahl, dharia, sohail, ravi, and klinger in varsity

Also, congrats to jherna and rob in JV

By: Sohail

Sohail — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:24:52 +0000

congrats to mo, vineet, mike, dharia, and marc wallach, and ofcourse to nikita, absolutely destroyed me

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:20:59 +0000

congrats to Lolwani on the bid and to Thurm for rockin’ the JV circuit

also to Shadman and Jake, congrats.

By: Sam Grondahl

Sam Grondahl — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:19:28 +0000

congrats to mo, akshay, nikita, ravi, vineet, mike, dharia, sohail, and shadman on impressive rounds

By: rohit

rohit — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:09:32 +0000

i heard that shadman beats jake in finals?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:38:49 +0000

congrats to lisa, karlyn, steph, shireen, hibs, ravi, sags, nikita,and alan, nice job guys!

By: Akshay Agashe

Akshay Agashe — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:56:48 +0000

wow! congrats to AT, karlyn, nikhil,grondahl, dharia, klinger, ravi , steph, vineet, mike contillo, nikita and Mo on great performances

By: Fisch

Fisch — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:43:11 +0000

NICE JOB KARLYN!

By: gabe

gabe — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:37:10 +0000

major congrats to alan tong on an incredibly well deserved first bid

congrats everyone else also

By: panda

panda — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:02:23 +0000

anjan, please contact me about judging around the maryland area.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:55:36 +0000

congrats to stefanie, nathaniel, and ben!!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:44:00 +0000

Congrats to Melanie, Vineet, Stephanie, Arielle, Bobby, Carolyn, Shireen and Hiba!

By: Sydney

Sydney — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:40:45 +0000

Congrats Ben!!

By: matt aks

matt aks — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:37:57 +0000

congrats to nikita, shadman and isaac on the bids.

By: glen

glen — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:55:10 +0000

congrats tess on the bid, usha and vineet on actas and BEN LEWIS!!!!

By: matt hershey

matt hershey — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:22:30 +0000

good job nikita

By: Ben Holguin

Ben Holguin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:59:26 +0000

Congrats Jake and Ravi!!

By: David McNeil

David McNeil — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:58:45 +0000

Congrats Jake and Ravi!

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:57:00 +0000

Congrats Melanie, Vineet, Arielle, Caroline, Stephanie and Bobby- what a great start to the season!

Congrats Isaac and team Berkeley Carroll! I am sure you were looking fabulous! So well deserved!!

By: Jason Zhou

Jason Zhou — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:28:10 +0000

Congrats Peter, Isaac, Melanie, and Marc

By: Rachel Vogel

Rachel Vogel — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:20:48 +0000

Congrats Tess, AND WILL YOU BE AT BRONX?

By: Jake McNulty

Jake McNulty — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:11:14 +0000

CONGRATULATIONS TESS!!!
My sister is wonderful.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:57:25 +0000

Nice going Nikhil. ;) keep it up.

By: Paul Tyger

Paul Tyger — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:29:58 +0000

congrats to isaac, vineet, shadman, nikita and jake

By: Dan Chen

Dan Chen — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:24:36 +0000

congrats to Arielle and Bobby

By: Saboor

Saboor — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:58:44 +0000

congrats vineet, melanie, jake, ravi, and isaac

By: Anjan

Anjan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:56:43 +0000

All three Whitman JVers picked up doubles.

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:26:18 +0000

Congratz Vineet and Melanie, take it home! and all the bronx jvers too, good job guys.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:24:01 +0000

Congrats Vineet, Karlyn, Steph, Shireen, and Ravi. I had better see some bids reppin NDF.

By: NiskayunaST

NiskayunaST — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:18:18 +0000

Congrats to Sohail, Sam Dharia, and Sam Grondahl on clearing. You better bring back some bids.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:02:20 +0000

Oh. lol. Yea that.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:53:30 +0000

FYI- A list of LD Dubs participants is at yale.tabroom.com

By: Mo Sahoo

Mo Sahoo — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:52:23 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:37:26 +0000

Congrats Dan.

By: JPren

JPren — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:06:01 +0000

Congratulations to all sciencites! Good luck to carolyn, arielle, stephanie, and bobby!

By: john

john — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:48:27 +0000

Any coverage on the varsity debaters? Keep the action rolling.Thanks

By: naveen

naveen — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:17:22 +0000

congrats to hiba and kshia on clearing

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Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:29:45 +0000

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