Comments on: Ask Cruz: Volume II

By: ‘The name is Gajwani. Satyan Suresh Gajwani.’ « sans serif

‘The name is Gajwani. Satyan Suresh Gajwani.’ « sans serif — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:53:07 +0000

[...] Miami Palmetto High School, Satyan Gajwani won the 2003 Lincoln-Douglas debate. That there was a minor row about his [...]

By: wade

wade — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:18:30 +0000

I agree with the above two posts.

By: Ben Holguin

Ben Holguin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:35:44 +0000

I would really like to hear the answer to Mr. Nebel’s question in the next installment of Ask Cruz

By: Jake Nebel

Jake Nebel — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:19:30 +0000

Who invented GDS, and what is the scientific cause of this phenomenon?

By: Dan Jennis

Dan Jennis — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:22:57 +0000

How many novices have qualified to the TOC? Steph Bell is all I know of.

By: Catherine Tarsney

Catherine Tarsney — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:06:42 +0000

I assume the 11 bid record is for a single season; what’s the record for total career bids earned?

By: Eli Mallon

Eli Mallon — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:45:20 +0000

What’s the youngest anyone’s ever qual’d? Catherine did as a freshman last year…

By: Karlyn

Karlyn — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:14:58 +0000

i like averill’s second question

By: Slurie

Slurie — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:59:34 +0000

Is there any evidence of AFF or NEG debaters winning substantially more in final rounds of TOC bid tournaments?[Maybe just looking at '06]

By: wade

wade — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:09:05 +0000

didn’t alex gomez just give 30 speaks overviews every round

By: bietz

bietz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:24:34 +0000

For oldest debate tournaments, I know the Minnesota State Debate Tournament started in like 1898.

By: Sam Duby

Sam Duby — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:48:21 +0000

Yeah 2003 was the year Bexley just couldn’t win a first speaker award and kept losing out to what were considerable surprise 1st Speakers. He took home the 2nd at TOC and St. Marks losing to Satyan (3-4) at TOC and Alan Zhai (out in Doubles) at Marks.

By: class of 1998

class of 1998 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:32:39 +0000

In 1998 Alex Gomez of Miami Pamlmetto was the top speaker but didn’t clear as a 4-3. The top speaker not clearing thing must be a Palmetto curse or something.

By: class of 2003

class of 2003 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:01:50 +0000

satyan gajwani in 2003 was out of the running for the break going into round 7, but was well in the running for speaker awards. his biggest competition (i forget who exactly, i want to say palmer or bexley) was in a bubble round and had to worry about the w, not speaks. so, round 7 he ran a “give me 30 speaks” case or something.

By: menick

menick — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:54:44 +0000

Eponymous, of course. If he were eponynmous, then it really would have been a Memorial.

By: menick

menick — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:53:29 +0000

In my own defense regarding the eponynmous Mr. Kaiser, he may have been alive, but he was looking pretty pale.

By: michael mangus

michael mangus — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:00:02 +0000

if i recall, there was some controversy over the 2003 speaker awards (1st speaker satyan gajwani did not clear). cmon jon, you know you want to go create a detailed account of the controversy from the archive.org version of westman.

By: Kevin Wenger

Kevin Wenger — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:36:36 +0000

The Barkley Forum claims to be one of the oldest debate tournaments. Are they really the oldest or do they just say this to justify expensive registration costs.

By: Tim Averill

Tim Averill — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:34:51 +0000

Dear Jon,

2 Questions:
1) Has the top speaker in L-D at the TOC ever NOT broken? Check 1988 for a possible answer.
2) Where are Koppell and Calavito today?

By: bliz

bliz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:37:41 +0000

earl: I’m not sure there’s an answer to that question since the term “national circuit” is pretty ambiguous. There’s not a real definition for the term so I don’t think we can say with any certainty which one was the first.

By: Earl S.

Earl S. — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:40:02 +0000

What was the first “national circuit” tournament(and who won it)?

By: Mike Contillo

Mike Contillo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:59:28 +0000

The LIFA reference made me very warm and happy inside.

By: Jon Cruz

Jon Cruz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:28:40 +0000

Rebar — I’ll be answering your question in Monday’s installment; Akshay’s missing at least one person, and I believe there may be one or two other repeat champions of octas bid tournaments.

By: Rebar Niemi

Rebar Niemi — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:24:42 +0000

thanks ashkay.

oooh answer bietz’s question. that’s a good one.

By: Jon Cruz

Jon Cruz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:24:02 +0000

“Man and God, Having a Few Beers and Talking Things Over,” by Jeffrey Scott.

By: bliz

bliz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:42:22 +0000

What level of the TOC has a single state closed out (as in has a state closed out quarters, octas, etc)?

By: Sean Nadel

Sean Nadel — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:31:53 +0000

Thanks for the info…

By: Karlyn

Karlyn — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:23:34 +0000

Nope… bio. All we do is watch movies or fill in worksheets, so it’s a great time to read VBD.

By: Mo Sahoo

Mo Sahoo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:02:07 +0000

This is really funny stuff.. Karlyn are you supposed to be doing stuff for APES? Cuz I remember doing something for recycling for that class :(

By: Akshay Agashe

Akshay Agashe — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:11:50 +0000

Rebar, to answer your question, I know Matt Shields won Harvard both as juniour and as a senior.

http://victorybriefsdaily.com/2006/03/10/alan-yang-evan-cody-win-repeat-titles-trivia-title/

based on this former VBD post

John Mcneil won the Glenbrooks twice

and

Liz Rogers (1992, 1993) and David Browne (1995, 1997) won Harvard twice as well

By: Rebar Niemi

Rebar Niemi — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:36:54 +0000

Has anyone ever won the same octa-finals bid two years (or more) running? If so, who and what tournament(s)?

By: Nick Bubb

Nick Bubb — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:55:07 +0000

I think all of the Victory Briefs Daily readers would love to know the title of the Duo piece you performed.

By: Nick Bubb

Nick Bubb — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:45:20 +0000

Wasn’t there a tournament in Iowa that did 5-7-5-6-3 instead of a 6-7-4-6-3 not that long ago?

By: jkling13

jkling13 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:35:46 +0000

Someday Great Neck South will be a national power house. Getting there step by step.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:34:19 +0000

Jon this is hilarious- I think the funniest part is the picture :)

love you

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:40:49 +0000

Has anyone ever closed out CFLs?

By: Karlyn

Karlyn — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:17:15 +0000

this is entirely too fun to read. i just got yelled at by my science teacher for laughing when i should be researching recycling…