California Cup field announced!
Congratulations to the following 18 teams for qualifying to the first annual California Cup.
UPDATE: The teams are seeded by the average of individual POI points among the two partners.
1. Bentley MB (Annie McKenna & Logan Brog) 29.9
2. James Logan AM (Niraj Asthana & Ben Mabie) 29.775
3. Bishop O’Dowd AD (Carey Appeldorn & Kate Drew) 29.15
4. Lynbrook MN (Ritik Malhotra & Tejas Navaratra) 22.825
5. Campbell Hall BG (Sam Brodey & Jordan Gary) 21.8
6. Carlsbad GM (Sam Gardner & Natasha Maldi) 21.65
7. Los Gatos VE (Robert Van Unen & Kate Epstein) 20.15 (alt)
8. Bishop O’Dowd PV (Miles Pember & Rebecca Vastola) 18.8
9. Claremont MW (Dan Musa & Patrick Wilkie) 16.95
10. MVLA SS (Rylan Schaeffer & Akshay Shrivastava) 16.95
11. Mira Loma AL (Vrinda Agarwal & Justin Lin) 16.6
12. Saratoga VM (Abhishek Venkataramana & Vijay Menon) 16.6
13. Lynbrook SS (Carl Shan & Pargat Singh) 14.8
14. Mira Loma LM (Diana Li & Benjamin Morris) 14.575
15. Lynbrook JY (Aakriti Jain & Vincent Yu) 14.4
16. Valencia/Cleveland HL (Nick Hall & Iain Lampert) 14.275
17. James Logan CS (Erik Camacho & Shiran Sukumar) 11.5
18. Lynbrook LT (Alice Lin & Belinda Tang) 9.275
Alternate#2: Saratoga AJ (Karthik Annaamalai & Rishabh Jethanandani) 14
Drop: Lowell AQ (Jason Alafgani & Brian Qiu) 28.05
1) Judge philosophies are due on 03/31. We will be sending out further instructions about that later.
2) Stay tuned for an email about submitting checks to Lynbrook Speech and Debate Boosters.
3) Instead of power-protecting round 1, we will be using a challenge format. Every team that was fully qualified to the California Cup (had 17 or more points) will get to challenge an at-large entry. The #1-ranked team will challenge first, followed by the #2-ranked team, and so on. A fully qualified team cannot challenge another fully qualified team. Teams are prohibited from challenging a team from their school or from challenging a team in a way that would force another team to debate its teammates. We will be sending out further instructions about that later.
4) We are considering videotaping some of the rounds. More on that later.
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Note that because we expanded the field, there will be 2 alternates instead of 1.
sick field. also, nice website you got going here artem. i didn’t realize you were tech savvy enough to pull this together.
^yeah. he’s not the “tech savvy” part of the operation haha
why are there pictures of odd alien creatures next to our posts?
Aditya is right. Alice (the Alice from Lynbrook LT) deserves major props for making two designs of the website, and kudos to Patrick for coding the lamer one of them.
The “aliens” (actually monsters)are intended to make out readers feel more comfortable.
I don’t know what “make out readers” are, but I’d sure love to be one.
LOL
UPDATE: team rankings were deemed inaccurate due to partner changes. Instead, the teams at the Cup will be ranked by the average of individual POI points among the two partners.
For example, James Logan CS has [(6*1+6*0.95+5*0.65+4*0.3) + (4*1+3*0.95)]/2 = 11.5 POI points.
To clarify, this will only be used for the purpose of tournament seeding. Team rankings will be calculated as previously and will not coincide with the seeding because they will 1) not include points with different partners 2) include some post-3/16 tournaments.
Benjamin Morris is soooo cool….
fersher doggy
wow, a very competitive bunch. I can’t wait to see the results, it’s as if every team has a shot at winning.
Arithmetic fail – Carlsbad should have 21.65, not 21.9. Post if there are any other mistakes with the seeding.
Thank God someone caught that.
Again… Benjamin Morris is soooo cool
hahahaha
LOL hahaha
Lucky number 13
Ballinnnn!!!
13 is actually unlucky.
^ that made my day
actually in this case because 13 has been assigned to Lynbrook SS its actually quite fortunate.
you know, if your definition of unlucky is that you *only* win berkeley and generally dominate many tourneys on the pofo circuit, i’d take that =D
This one time, a black cat kept crossing Pargat’s path as he was giving a rebuttal, and, by the end of the rebuttal, the cat turned white. Carl/Pargat won that round with double 30s. True story.
@ Jason – for now, we just closely monitor them, I’ll see how that works out. But yes, use your names, people!
No, I realize that the 13th applies only to the parli tourneys. But the fact that Lynbrook SS is just straight up awesome across two types of debate is what I was alluding to.
BTW, do you guys prefer indian or chinese food?
How about Vietnamese? If not, then Chinsese
Aditya if you get Indian food I will love you
Chinese PLEASE!!!! but indian is good both are good PERM!!
Unfortunately we do have a limited budget haha
Luckily, there’s a parent associated with LynbrookSD who owns an Indian catering service – if we can get a decent discount on Indian food, and we have a reasonable amount of money left over, perhaps we’ll bring in Chinese food for dinner. Don’t bank on anything though, but we definitely are trying to stay away from the pizza/subway atrocities that many “normal” tournaments will serve.
That sounds great. Subway tournaments suck, indian food rocks!!! Curry ftw!
OK, this is the real Content User, and I want Chinese Food!
Woah, i have a clone…. But apparently my clone has bad taste..
If you pose as someone else, you cannot get the same avatar as them.
LOL that’s why Jason looks like Content User…. People need to stop pretending to be me or start to number themselves, Jason should be Content User #2.
I have a few questions. What are the rules for the tournament, are there Point of Orders? What are the rules for prep?
The rules are in the invite
“Rules
CHSSA rules (http://www.pointofinformation.org/resources/chssa-parli-rules/) will be used as a guideline with the following exceptions:
- Points of Information are allowed in all speeches at all time. There is no protected time.
- Points of Order are allowed in rebuttals. Points of Order can be made if the opposing side brings up a new argument in the rebuttal with the exceptions of examples illustrating previous arguments and PMR responses to new arguments made in the MOC. Points of Order are not included in speech times.
- During preparation time, debaters are not allowed to consult with anyone except their respective partners. They are, however, allowed to access any printed material that was prepared before the start of preparation time, as long as this material is not used in round. Laptops are allowed; connecting to the Internet is not.
- Judges are encouraged, but not required, to disclose and explain their decisions after the round, as long as this does not jeopardize the time efficiency of the tournament.
- A 0-10 speaker point scale will be used. A speaker point score in a regular 0-30 scale is converted into this by subtracting 20. Judges are asked to average at around 6 and reserve scores of 8 or higher for debaters who, given their performance in the particular round, deserve to clear to elimination rounds on the Cup.”
The only change will be that, due to the ambiguity of whether we will have a run-off, it will say “reserve scores of 9 or higher for debaters who, given their performance in the particular round, deserve to clear to semifinals.” We will include this information in the judge instructions at the tournament.
No colored paper rule?… How will I go on..?
CURSES! After all of that hidden colored paper I acquired?! How will I cheat now?!
All that statistical analysis of which pastel paper colors are cheapest…wasted.
In other news, certificates are being printed so if there’s a typo on anyone’s name up there, speak now or forever be tormented with an incorrect certificate.
the following email has been sent out:
“Sorry about the late notice, but the tab is asking me to have round 1 pairings done by Friday, so we will have to do challenges online.
Challenges will be done tomorrow (Friday) from 6:00 PM to 6:35 PM. In order to challenge, a team has to both 1) post on pointofinformation.org/news/california-cup-field-announced/ AND 2) email me at artem . raskin @ gmail . A team’s time slot starts when the team above it has issued its challenge (Bentley can start whenever) and ends at the deadline listed below. Teams that do not issue their challenge during their time slot forfeit their turn. A challenge may be issued by either of the two team members or by their coach (we will trust you to all agree on the challenge). If you are busy at 6-6:35 tomorrow but still want to issue a challenge, send me a list of teams you would like to challenge in order of preference. The #1 ranked team needs to send a list of 1 team, the #2 ranked team a list of two teams, and so on, until a list of 8 teams by the #8 seed (the list will never be released, just the team that you end up debating).
Here is a list of teams by seed and with deadlines
1. Bentley MB (Annie McKenna & Logan Brog) – 6:00 PM
2. James Logan AM (Niraj Asthana & Ben Mabie) – 6:05 PM
3. Bishop O’Dowd AD (Carey Appeldorn & Kate Drew) – 6:10 PM
4. Lynbrook MN (Ritik Malhotra & Tejas Navaratra) – 6:15 PM
5. Campbell Hall BG (Sam Brodey & Jordan Gary) – 6:20 PM
6. Carlsbad GM (Sam Gardner & Natasha Maldi) – 6:25 PM
7. Los Gatos VE (Robert Van Unen & Kate Epstein) – 6:30 PM
8. Bishop O’Dowd PV (Miles Pember & Rebecca Vastola) – 6:35 PM
Here are the exact rules for the challenge procedure:
Every team that was fully qualified to the California Cup (had 17 or more points) will get to challenge an at-large entry. The #1-ranked team will challenge first, followed by the #2-ranked team, and so on. A fully qualified team cannot challenge another fully qualified team. Teams are prohibited from challenging a team from their school or from
challenging a team in a way that would force another team to debate its teammates.”
Hahaha yeah I’ll actually have to agree with a similar story; the fact that last year at Harker, we dropped in the bid round in pofo with absolutely 0 days spent on prep (maybe a couple hours getting my printer to work and print the cases + evidence), and showing up to the tournament without knowing all the speech times + having strep throat throughout the weekend = epic win.
LOL Jason