Dear Parliamentary Debate Community,

The POI Debate Institute (PDI) is now accepting applications for its summer academies.

PDI will be offering four opportunities to improve your skills in parliamentary debate:

June 23-29, CHAMPS Charter School of the Arts, Van Nuys (Day Academy)
July 21-27, Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland (Day Academy)
July 28 – August 2, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (In-Residence Academy)
August 11-17, University of Oregon, Eugene (In-Residence Academy)

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Non-breaking 3-1s (after 4 rounds; tab collapsed round 5 due to social round):
(3) Leland Ethan Hu and Cameron Loftis
(4) Los Gatos Jade Corral and Olivia Flechsig
(6) Saratoga Jerry P. Yang and Michael Ong
(8) Los Gatos Kelly Young and Efe Torunoglu
(9) Bentley Sam Dubensky and Nick Schegolev

Top speakers:
1. Ethan Hu (Leland)
2. Shane Pracar (Bentley)
3. Olivia Flechsig (Los Gatos)

Cumes are available on Prospect’s website at http://phsdebate.weebly.com/georgiana-hays-invitational-2013.html. The experimental ideas were 50-50: novice breakout finals were fairly successful, but almost no one participated in the “social round.”

Round 1 Resolutions:
1) USFG should make no exceptions to reading the Miranda rights when arresting suspects.
2) USFG should not allow the patenting of GMOs.
3) USFG should close Guantanamo Bay.

Round 2 Resolutions:
1) USFG should lift the Cuban trade embargo.
2) China should end its support of North Korea.
3) Russia should denounce Bashar al-Assad.

Round 3 Resolutions:
1) Teachers’ unions do more harm than good.
2) USFG should invest in cloning extinct animals.
3) The CA State Government should significantly increase support for undocumented students in the UC and CSU systems.

Round 4 Resolutions:
1) USFG should pass the Simpson-Bowles Act.
2) USFG should decrease the Social Security tax.
3) USFG should tax all internet sales.

Round 5 Resolutions:
1) You’re Alice. Don’t leave Wonderland. (Open Finals topic)
2) When in conflict, actions should be valued over intent.
3) When in conflict, cultural identities should be valued over national identities.
4) When in conflict, personal gain should be valued over communal good.
5) On balance, loose constructionism is preferable to strict constitutional interpretation.

Just when we thought the 2012-2013 season was over, the Analy Speech and Debate Team is still here to host the GGSA Novice Speech and Debate Tournament on Saturday, May 11th for novice competitors in parli as well as all other CHSSA speech and debate events! Any school in the Golden Gate Speech Association with competitors in their first year of competition are welcome to attend and can register here.

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Finals round
Opp: Granite Bay HO (Justin Habashi & Nick Ontiveros) defeat
Claremont SW (Sam Schiffris & Madison Weigand) [6-1]

Semifinals
Opp. Claremont RS def Cleveland RT [4-1]
Opp. Granite Bay HO def Leland WN [4-1]

Quarterfinals
Opp. Granite Bay HO def Polytechnic BM [2-1]
Leland WN BYE
Cleveland RT BYE
Claremont RT BYE

Round 6
Opp. Leland WN def PV Peninsula VM [2-1]
Opp. Granite Bay HO def Lynbrook VS [3-0]
Opp. Cleveland RT def Oxford Academy JG [3-0]
Opp. Claremont SW def Analy WL [3-0]
Polytechnic BM BYE

Round 5
Opp. 1443 Lynbrook VS (Velamuri-Sathe) def 1448 Needleman-Spach [2-1]
Opp. 1416 Oxford Academy JG (Jain-Gao) def 1421 Analy MD (Mizutani-Dimick) [3-0]
Opp. 1428 Brooks-Mosse def 1408 Windsor ZS (Zeidrich-Schneider) [2-1]
Opp. 1444 PV Peninsula VM (Vezina-Moussavi) def 1410 Claremont CX (Chitre-Xie) [3-0]
Gov. 1441 Leland WN (Wu-Nguyen) def 1405 Analy WL (Williams-Lindenbusch) [3-0]
Gov. 1431 Cleveland RT (Revello-Tuchman) def 1436 Notre Dame AL (Ahmed-Lan) [2-1]
Gov. 1412 Claremont SW (Schiffris-Weigand) def 1403 Centennial (Kleinman-Manges) [3-0]
1435 Granite Bay HO (Habashi-Ontiveros) BYE

Resolutions (comment if wording is off)

1A. On balance, the Republicans in Congress have done more harm than good over the past year.
Gov: 9 wins
Opp: 3 wins

1B. On balance, the Democrats in Congress have done more harm than good over the past year.
Gov: 5 wins
Opp: 7 wins

2. The US federal givernment should pass comprehensive tax reform.
Gov: 14 wins
Opp: 9 wins
(one round wasn’t scanned)

3. When in conflict, US border patrol should value the lives of illegal immigrants over security concerns.
Gov: 10 wins
Opp: 12 wins

4. On balance, gun control reduces gun violence.
Gov: 6 wins
Opp: 6 wins

5. The US should value human rights over trade relations in its dealing with Russia.

6. In the US surveillance policies ought to value the right to privacy over law enforcement.

Q. The US federal government should mandate a national curriculum for all high schools in the US.

S. China has surpassed the United States as the world’s dominant superpower.

F. On balance, the Keystone XL pipeline will be beneficial.

Schedule

Octafinals

Semifinals

Full results

Final Prelim Ballot Counts

Prelims by Round
GOV: 68 Ballots (52%)
OPP: 64 Ballots (48%)

The 2013 TOC Student General Assembly voted on the following resolutions:

Tournaments should implement the three-strikes system for resolutions.
Yes: 100%
No: 0%

Students express discontent with GGSA topics. (only GGSA students voted)
Yes: 100%
No: 0%

Students express discontent with MLK-Logan topics.
Yes: 97% (28 people)
No: 0% (0 people)
Maybe: 3% (1 person)

Students express discontent with Stanford topics.
Yes: 100% (31 people)
No: 0% (0 people)

Students express discontent with CFL topics. (only CFL students vote)
Yes: 0%
No: 100%

Californian tournaments should not utilize “this House” resolutions.
Yes: 70% (19 people)
No: 30% (8 people)

Tournaments should not utilize “this House believes that” and “this House prefers” resolutions.
Yes: 100% (34 people)
No: 0% (0 people)

Tournaments should allow and encourage (but not require) judges to give oral critiques (within reasonable time limits).
Yes: 100% (30 people)
No: 0% (0 people)

Tournaments should allow and encourage (but not require) judges to disclose their decision.
Yes: 47% (16 people)
No: 53% (18 people)

Tournaments should have a warm room to post round results as they come in.
Yes: 90% (27 people)
No: 10% (3 people)

Abstaining votes were not recorded.

Semis:
O’Dowd WZ def. O’Dowd VY (3-0)
O’Dowd AP def. Granite Bay HO (2-1)

Quarters:
1. O’Dowd WZ BYE
2. O’Dowd AP BYE
6. O’Dowd VY def 3. Oxford JK (2-1)
5. Granite Bay HO def 4. Dougherty Valley KW (3-0)

1. Saksham Jain 105.0 (Oxford Academy)
2. Jaewon Kim 102.5 (Oxford Academy)
3. Caitlin Walsh 102.1 (Bishop O’Dowd)
4. Nadia Perl 101.6 (Bishop O’Dowd)
5. Saifullah Khan 101.0 (Evergreen Valley)

Most Preferred Critic
Bryan Pearson

Notes on the 2013 TOC:

- To welcome our guests from Canada, there will be a round about Canadian domestic politics balanced out by a round about US domestic politics.

- The top 6 teams will break to partial quarters. Tiebreakers in order are: ballot count, head-to-head results, speaker points with highest and lowest dropped.

- Check our invite for round schedule and rules. Bring a laptop. Arrive at noon on Saturday.

- All judge paradigms will be posted here. If your school is bringing a judge, make sure they email us their paradigm ASAP.

- TOC teams are pre-seeded going into the tournament. Points are averaged between the two partners.

Points Details
1. Bishop O’Dowd WZ (Walsh & Zepeda) 33.4
2. Oxford Academy Jain & Kim 31.875
3. Evergreen Valley KP (Khan & Park) 31.375
4. Bishop O’Dowd VY (Vegis & Yang) 29.5625
5. Los Osos GL (Guerrieri & Long) 28.9
6. Claremont CX (Chitre & Xie) 25.15
7. Granite Bay HO (Habashi & Ontiveros) 24.85
8. Lowell CC (Chen & Cunningham) 24.575
9. Bishop O’Dowd (Accinelli & Perl) 22.825
10. Prospect LS (Latta & Srivivasan) 22
11. Lynbrook SV (Sathe & Velamuri) 20.2
12. Windsor SZ (Schneider & Ziedrich) 18.7
13. Dougherty Valley KW (Konath & Wang) 18.4
14. Bishop O’Dowd (Crosby & Ring) 17.9735
15. Windsor AC (Ahrens & Miller) 16.825
16. Ashland PP (Picton & Preskins) 16.7
17. Ashland RW (Risner & Walker-Roberts) 16.175
18. Claremont RS (Rambhatla & Schiffris) 11.25
19. Vincent Massey FH (Fargnoli & Hassan) 11
20. Santa Rosa DG (Dolan & Greenan) 9.55
21. Evergreen Valley GT (Gaur & Tallapragada) 9.5375
22. Evergreen Valley HM (Hasnat & Madhusudan) 7.5

Resolution:
The CA State government should cancel its high speed rail projects.

OCTOFINALS
Prospect LS def. Prospect GS (Grover & Srivastava) (2-1)
Analy LW def. Cupertino LC (Liu & Chao) (3-0)
Mountain View MN def. Bentley KM (Kaplan & Mufti) (2-1)
Bishop O’Dowd VL def. (Choudhary & Wong) (2-1)
Lynbrook WI def. Dougherty Valley KW (Konath & Wang) (2-1)
Milpitas ZT def. Bentley PP (Pracar & Pracar) (2-1)
Bishop O’Dowd DB def. Sequoia SC (Sharma & Cromwell)
Lynbrook SV def. Sequoia AA (Amerian & Amerian)

QUARTERFINALS
Prospect LS def. Milpitas ZT (Zahid & Tran) (3-0)
Bishop O’Dowd VL def. Lynbrook SV (Sathe & Velamuri) (2-1)
Mountain View MN def. Analy LW (Lindenbusch & Williams) (2-1)
Bishop O’Dowd DB def. Lynbrook WI (Wang & Iyer) (2-1)

SEMIFINALS
Bishop O’Dowd VL def. Mountain View MN (Morgan & Nelson) (2-1)
Prospect LS def. Bishop O’Dowd DB (DeWitt & Bowman) (3-0)

FINALS
Prospect LS (Aaron Latta & Krishnan Srinivasan) def. Bishop O’Dowd VL (Vegis & Leboa) (3-0)