Stanford Takes APDA Title
Past Lincoln-Douglas Debaters Dominate Weekend
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — This weekend, two former high school forensics competitors — Michael Baer and Anish Mitra — took home the national title of the American Parliamentary Debate Association. Baer and Mitra, the top team from Stanford University, won the National Tournament on an 8-5 decision in the final round. The tournament was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Congratulations to both on this awesome achievement!
Many former Lincoln-Douglas debaters — and former competitors in the other forensic events — garnered great success at MIT this weekend. The full results are available here on VBD.
(Shoshana Gordon-Ginsburg contributed to this report.)
THE CHAMPIONS, on an 8-5 decision
Stanford A (Michael Baer & Anish Mitra)
THE RUNNERS-UP
Princeton A (Dave Kwasniewksi & Jason Sheltzer)
SEMIFINALISTS
3. Chicago A (Steph Bell and Bridget Fahey)
4. Princeton B (Mike Shih and Daniel Rauch)
QUARTERFINALISTS
5. Yale BR (Josh Bone & Andrew Rohrbach)
6. Harvard BB (Ben Belser & Lewis Bollard)
7. Columbia SH (Matt Scarola & Caitlin Halpern)
8. Yale MM (Habib Moody & Grant May)
OCTAFINALISTS
9. Fordham SM (Matt Spotts & Frank Marsico)
10. William & Mary BH (Lauren Bateman & Andy Hill)
11. Bates JM (Matt Marienthal & Brendan Jarboe)
12. Hopkins BC (Michael Childers & Chris Baia)
13. Hopkins SW (Sean Withall & Vivek Suri)
14. Brandeis SB (Rebecca Sivitz & Dan Blynn)
15. Brandeis TS (Jackie Saffir & Joel Todoroff)
16. BU LC (Jake Campbell & Rocky Lotito)
NON-ADVANCING TEAMS WITH 4-2 RECORDS
17. Dartmouth IL (Adeel Ikram & Ben Lo)
18. Dartmouth WH (Joe Huston & Andrew Wansley)
19. Yale KS (Dave Kasten & Ashali Singham)
20. NYU TZ (Sarah Thambidurai & Elizabeth Zahler)
21. Columbia DY (David Yin & Ryne Duchman)
22. Vassar A (Meg Dallett & Jenny Wasson)
23. William & Mary HT (Josh Turner & Samantha Hynes)
24. Yale BL (James Lucarelli & Pam Brown)
25. Duke AT (Kevin Troy & Nick Arrivo)
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TOP SPEAKERS
1. Michael Baer — Stanford University
2. Dave Kwasniewksi — Princeton University
3. Steph Bell — University of Chicago
4. Josh Bone — Yale University
5. Andy Hill — The College of William & Mary
6. Frank Marsico — Fordham University
7. Jason Sheltzer — Princeton University
8. Anish Mitra — Stanford University
9. Matt Scarola — Columbia University
10. Ben Belser — Harvard University
11. Bridget Fahey — University of Chicago
12. Matt Spotts — Fordham University
13. Lauren Bateman — The College of William & Mary
14. Andrew Rohrbach — Yale University
15. Brendan Jarboe — Bates College
16. Joel Todoroff — Brandeis University
17. Meg Dallett — Vassar College
18. Chris Baia — The Johns Hopkins University
19. Daniel Rauch — Princeton University
20. Andrew Wansley — Dartmouth College
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TOP NOVICE TEAMS
1. Yale BL (James Lucarelli & Pam Brown)
2. Princeton D (Rushabh Doshi & Dan May)
3. Hopkins BF (Sarah Frank & Ali Boyle)
4. American A (Jonathan Terrell & Leah Storer)
5. Hopkins IR (George Remisovsky & Shrivats Iyer)
6. Stanford C (Wesley Hong & Ian Girard)
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TOP NOVICE SPEAKERS
1. Alex Taubes — Boston University
2. Zayn Siddique — Princeton University
3. Pam Brown — Yale University
4. Rushabh Doshi — Princeton University
5. James Shapiro — Brown University
6. Dan May — Princeton University
7. Shrivats Iyer — The Johns Hopkins University
8. Sarah Frank — The Johns Hopkins University
9. James Lucarelli — Yale University
10. Leah Storer — American University
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Posted from: 74.73.176.171
April 23rd, 2008 22:05
MICHAEL BAER! Really, one of the most incredibly fun, funny, smart, warm, personable people to ever grace Lincoln-Douglas debate. I’ve really missed him, as he is no longer mega-involved in our community, but I am so happy to see that he has been such a dominant force in college parli. This is such a very, very well-deserved title. Nice job, man!
I do not know Anish Mitra personally, but I do know he was a fantastically talented extemper. I remember particularly that he was excellent in the final round of Harvard.
So many former LD debaters to congratulate! This feels like a who’s who list. Great job to Steph Bell, Ben Belser, Dan Blynn, Ali Boyle, Pam Brown, Rushabh Doshi, Bridget Fahey, Sarah Frank, Caitlin Halpern, Joe Huston, James Luccarelli, Grant May, Matt Scarola, Mike Shih, Zayn Siddique, Rebecca Sivitz, Leah Storer, Andrew Wansley, and Elizabeth Zahler!
Special shout outs as well to Kevin Troy, Josh Bone, and Daniel Rauch — not LD debaters, but three very talented extempers and very cool guys. Okay, yes, I know Kevin did LD once or twice. But, you know.
And YAY VASSAR! Nice job, Meg Dallett.
Posted from: 193.52.24.125
April 23rd, 2008 22:25
Bridget (Steph’s partner) was also an LDer. 2004 Colorado State Champion.
The Panopticruz is slippin’
Posted from: 71.236.67.195
April 24th, 2008 00:39
Once demography emerges as a science of statist administration, it is statistical attitudes can diffuse into the numerical surveillance of Nature, or Earth and its nonhuman inhabitants, as well as the study of culture, or society and its human members, giving us ecographies written by the Worldwatchers steering effects exerted from their APDA-PANOPTICRUZ through every technoscientific space.
Posted from: 68.193.253.36
April 24th, 2008 03:15
Michael,
What are you on? And why aren’t you sharing? :)
BC
Posted from: 160.39.190.184
April 24th, 2008 05:06
Try this: http://www.parlidebate.com/index.php?id=32
Posted from: 74.73.176.171
April 24th, 2008 05:25
True story. Sorry, Bridget! YAY for my magical comment-revising powers.
Posted from: 24.120.60.99
April 24th, 2008 08:56
Mike Baer is a beast. And he’s the only thing that’s been consistently good about the Stanford tournament over the last several years…
Posted from: 24.120.60.99
April 24th, 2008 08:56
Mike Baer is a beast. And he’s the only thing that’s been consistently good about the Stanford tournament over the last several years…
Posted from: 130.58.192.99
April 24th, 2008 12:20
baer is cool.
congrats.
Posted from: 71.236.67.195
April 24th, 2008 16:33
Bill,
I have to admit:
I am hooked on phonics.
L2 use google nubz,
michael
Posted from: 137.165.249.115
April 24th, 2008 19:57
dont forget about josh turner who used to debate for cinco ranch
Posted from: 128.12.38.38
April 24th, 2008 20:56
Congrats Michael and Anish!
Posted from: 75.25.130.115
April 24th, 2008 21:06
Mad props, Mike!!!
Posted from: 140.247.103.21
April 26th, 2008 16:49
Congrats to Pam Brown (it’s not listed here but she barely missed clearing on speaks) and Ali Boyle for being legit novices.
Oh yeah, Mike Baer and Steph Bell…still repping the Tucker Curtis Iowa SP 03 lab after all these years. Same for Scarola with the Diehl/Babb/Gong/Evnen lab of NDF lore.
I recently saw this activity. It looks a lot like LD circa 2003.
Posted from: 140.247.103.21
April 26th, 2008 17:03
oh wait that actually is listed. my bad
Posted from: 74.73.42.3
April 27th, 2008 18:01
This is way different than I thought APDA was like - my assumption was that there was a lot more rawkus involved, a bit more of a focus on wit or whatever.
It ended up just kind of sounding like NPDA-lite, with a deemphasis on the technical parts.
Oh you east coasters!