The Yale Invitational

Yale 2009 Concluded

palmer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:48:21 +0000

The trouble we had with the debate ballots scanning where files overwrote other files should be solved; I fixed the bug, and then concatenated each school’s ballots into a single zip file. Log into your tabroom.com account and select Yale from the list of tournament results at the bottom left area of your screen and you’ll have access to the ballots and the tournament results both.

Public results are available too.

We have large PDF masters of each round’s ballots so if we skipped some ballots from your packet just let me know and I can see if I can find it in the scanned master.

Finalists - Congressional Debate

vigars — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:30:54 +0000

Congratulations to the Finalists at the 17th Annual Yale Invitational Congressional Debate

A. Block
G. Block
Brunelle
Bryk
D’Angelo
Escobar
Gress
Mukunda
S. Patel
Perretta
Ranadive
Slaughter
Smyk
Stechschulte
Tiew
Tsiotsias

First Elim Break for Speech

palmer — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:02:41 +0000

A Note on Breaks:

Because of the large size of fields this year, we have expanded the Quarterfinals field for OI and DI in order to ensure a fair and reasonable break. Breaks for each event are based on prelims ranks with the lowest preliminary ranking dropped. The exact number of students breaking to Quarterfinals in each event is based the most reasonable clean break. Breaks into Semifinals and Finals and Final rankings will be determined by cumulative rank totals with the lowest preliminary rank dropped.

As a reminder, all judges who are in the Quarterfinals pools are obligated to be in the judges’ lounge at 8:30 AM, even if your team drops tonight. All missing judges will be fined, and ballots for schools will not be released until all fines are paid.

Congratulations to all advancing students.

Postings for Speech shall be here.

Congressional Debate - Semifinal Round Postings

vigars — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:55:50 +0000

The following judges MUST report to ML 211 (Mason Lab) at 8:00 Sunday morning for the semifinal judge meeting:
Aponte
Bakke
Bibeau
Blevins
Kuhrt
May

The following students are invited to the Semifinal Round in Congressional Debate at the 2009 Yale Invitational and should report to ML 211 (Mason Lab) at 8:00 Sunday morning:

Erik Bakke
Alicia Barroso
Aparna Bhattacharya
Andrew Block
Geoffrey Block
Joe Brenner
Jessica Brunelle
Andrew Bryrk
Neal Chandra
Colleen Creeden
Nick D’Angelo
Danneile Davis
Ray Escobar
Emilia Gambardella
Jacob Gilson
Ethan Grant
Charles Gress
Alexandra Henriques
Robert Hill
Cameron Isaacs
Yassy Issapour
Blaise Koncsol
Morgan Lochhead
Christian May
Amar Mukunda
Shivam Patel
Joe Perretta
Joseph Puma
Indira Puri
Dhruv Ranadive
Frances Rodriguez
Benjamin Rogers
Sam Schraer
Ross Slaughter
Alex Smyk
Michael Stechschulte
Audrey Tiew
Anna Tsiotsias
Bardia Vaseghi
Evan Wescott
Claire Yao
Alex Young

Congratulations!!!!!!

Finals info will be available via the “Student Congress Info” tab at left.

Postings for Speech Prelims

palmer — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:30:47 +0000

Postings for Speech are now available for IEs. Please check out the Judge Pool assignments for standby and elim rounds. The OI flip is Poetry first round. If you checked your postings prior to 10:31, you were looking at last year’s; try again.

Congressional Debate Information

vigars — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:43:46 +0000

Still more information regarding Congressional Debate is available by clicking on the “Student Congress Info” button at left. Anyone with entries in Congressional Debate should check that link this evening.

Judging Assignments - Congressional Debate

vigars — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:34:48 +0000

The following judges are needed in LC101 at 8:00am on Saturday morning:
134 Medina
150 Palmer
182 Sonnenklar
198 Pody
310 Educate
321 Henriques
337 Scafidi
388 Xue
389 Williams
434 Downs-Tepper
494 Hamilton
507 Graham
573 Kuhrt

The following judges are needed in the IE/Congress Judges’ Lounge (LC 2nd floor) at 12:15pm on Saturday:
203 Scott
230 Medoff
388 Xue
434 Downs-Tepper
494 Hamilton
573 Kuhrt

The following judges are needed in the IE/Congress Judges’ Lounge (LC 2nd floor) at 3:40pm on Saturday:
150 Palmer
230 Medoff
321 Henriques
388 Xue
434 Downs-Tepper
565 Hunter

Updated one-page schedule

palmer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:24:58 +0000

This is our latest theory as to the competition schedule. I can’t see anything changing, but by definition schedules at tournaments are tentative.
YaleSchedule2009

Congressional Debate - wrapping up the technical issues

vigars — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:50:28 +0000

Two items were left out of the packet for Congressional Debate due to undetermined email issues.

To House B’s legislation, please add the following item: dangelobill

To House C’s legislation, please add the following item: doverbill1

Congressional Debate - Elimination Round Topic Areas

vigars — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:37:47 +0000

The seven topic areas listed below will be the subject of the Semifinal and Final round legislation:
Africa’s Oil Supply
Consumer Automobile Incentives
Foreign Aid to the Middle East
Senatorial Election Process
U.S.-China Trade Relations
U.S. Service Initiatives
War on Terror Detainees

Congressional Debate - Item Added

vigars — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:45:01 +0000

Please add the item below to the legislation packet for debate in House A, House C, and Senate C. An oversight resulted in it not being included in the initial packet.
pennsbury-bill

Extemp Topic Areas

palmer — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:33:40 +0000

The Yale extemp round topic areas are as follows (in no particular order for prelims & elims):

Domestic	International	Mixed
Domestic Politics	The Developing World	US Foreign Policy
Domestic Policy & Law	The Developed World	The Economy

and the final round topic area will be Health Care

Field Reports

palmer — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:48:49 +0000

We have released the field reports for Varsity LD, Public Forum Debate, and Policy Debate over on tabroom.com.

Congressional Debate Contestant Packet

vigars — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:02:37 +0000

The information is available below.
2009-yale-contestant-packet-final

Yale on Twitter

yale — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:34:13 +0000

We will be sending out updates over Twitter for tournament announcements, including when schematics and postings are released, elim breaks, and more. Get breaks and info sent to your phone via Twitter.

For debate information, follow @DebateTab. For IE information, follow @SpeechTab. For Congress information, follow @CongressTab. For details, visit http://www.jimmenick.com/twitter.html.