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Following its inaugural report on St. Francis, POI will be providing coverage of various tournaments this season. We ask our audience to help us cover more tournaments. There are two main ways you can do this:
1) To cover one tournament, please contact us at mail@pointofinformation.org , informing us ahead of time, so that we make a thread dedicated to the tournament you are willing to cover. Alternatively, you can post in this thread. After that, simply post updates in comments. At minimum, coverage includes resolutions, elim results, and speaker awards, posted soon after the tournament releases them. You are invited to go beyond that, posting anything interesting that happened at the tournament.
2) For a more long term commitment to POI, you can apply to become an editor. Editors aren’t required to work on a regular basis; it’s semi-formal blogger-like role we’ve established mostly to improve communication. However, editors are allowed to to make posts, in addition to comments, so you would be able to post anything you think would be interesting to the parli community.
Out of all tournaments that offer parli, POI will definitely cover the following (and most likely at least half a dozen more):
Dempsey Cronin @ Santa Clara
MLK @ James Logan
Stanford
CFL State Qualifier
Santa Clara Spring (SCU2)
Help us expand this list.
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We will be posting results from the 2010 Windsor Invitational to be held on Feb 6th. This is a pure Parli tournament with Novice & Open divisions. Invitation on JOT.
Awesome, thanks.
We had a great time at the Windsor Invitational yesterday. 48 parli teams competed in Open & Novice Division. There were 4 preliminary rounds & one final round in each division. All teams with a 3-1 prelim record or better earned awards.
Award winning teams, speaker awards, topics & rules below:
AWARD WINNING TEAMS – OPEN DIVISION
Livermore HB (Julie Herman/Matt Burris) – 1ND PLACE
Windsor CL (Jakob Christensen/Cameron Lane) – 2ND PLACE
Analy DB (Mitch Davis/Duncan Brown)- 3-1 RECORD
Athenian GL (Lorien Giles/Michaela Lee) – 3-1 RECORD
Athenian MH (Daniel Mather/James Harding) – 3-1 RECORD
Sonoma Academy GB (Cal Gallegos/Elliot Butterfield) – 3-1 RECORD
Windsor NJ (Brenda Nelson/Amy Jeffrey) – 3-1 RECORD
Windsor FY (Jason Fauss/Kelsey Young) – 3-1 RECORD
AWARD WINNING TEAMS – OPEN DIVISION
Windsor HR (Mason Holt/Chuck Roady) – 1ST PLACE
Analy MD (Kota Mizutani/Grayson Dimick – 2ND PLACE
Analy AC (Weston Alameida/Swawn Currie) – 3-1 RECORD
Analy OC (Aili Osteras-Constable/Madeline Coy) – 3-1 RECORD
Maria Carillo CS (Brooke Cichosz/Tori Shubin) – 3-1 RECORD
Maria Carillo HG (Sam Herniman/Drew Gallagher) – 3-1 RECORD
Washington FC (Linda Fu/Vanessa Chi) – 3-1 RECORD
Washington LN (Anny Lin/Karina Ng) – 3-1 RECORD
Washington WZ (Christopher Wong/Steven Zhang) – 3-1 RECORD
SPEAKER AWARDS – OPEN DIVISION
Matthew Iannone (Athenian) – 1ST PLACE
Julie Herman (Livermore) – 2ND PLACE
Brenda Nelson (Windsor) – 3RD PLACE
SPEAKER AWARDS – NOVICE DIVISION
Grayson Dimick (Analy) – 1ST PLACE
Kavita Kandaswamy (Athenian) – 2ND PLACE
Patrick Foster (Windsor) – 3RD PLACE
TOPICS
1) War is not a path to peace
2) USFG should enact a new carbon tax
3) Socialism does more harm than good
4) Knowledge should be valued over belief
5) Smaller government should be valued over larger government
RULES
Allowed full student squad prep (no coaches/adults), use of electronic devices during prep was OK & you could use any color paper you wanted. Only handwritten notes allowed into the debates. POIs were allowed in all speeches. No POOs, etc.
SCHEDULE UPDATE
We’re looking to move this tournament earlier in the schedule next season so more of our POI friends can attend.
Sorry that I didn’t set up the coverage posts this weekend, I was down in SoCal debating. Looks like everything worked out in the end though, thanks everyone for the updates.
I’ll make separate Windsor/Stanford posts after I recover.
P.S. Was there internet at Windsor? E.g. were laptops used to store backfiles or to search the web?
Thanks for posting results for the Windsor Invitational. As part of our rule allowing electronic devices during prep, we did allow internet access via smartphone, laptop or iPad.