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Lynbrook KU (Vikram Kanth and Rohit Unni) and Lynbrook YJ (Vincent Yu and Aakriti Jain) have each won  their semifinal rounds to close out Open Parliamentary Debate at the 2010 Stanford Invitational. The field initially began with 110 teams and broke to double octafinals. Special congratulations are in order for the Lynbrook Parli team, breaking 6 teams into elimination rounds. Vikram and Rohit, and Vincent and Aakriti are coached by Ryan Lawrence.

Parli debate rules
“The Stanford Invitational has adopted the following California High School Speech Association rules and procedures for parlimentary debate.

Teams of two people from the same school will compete. There will be a new topic for each round, and teams are to be given 20 minutes to prepare. Rounds will be double flighted, except perhaps in late elimination rounds.

Times: 7 minute aff constructive, 7 minute neg constructive, 7 minute aff constructive, 7 minute neg constructive, 5 minute neg rebuttal (given by the first neg speaker), 5 minute aff rebuttal (given by the first aff speaker)

* MATERIALS IN THE PREP ROOM: Students may take into the prep room any written material they choose including extemp files, briefs, notes, articles, magazines etc. but may not utilize any electronic devices including computers in any form either in the prep room or during the round. Use of such devices warrants a loss by forfeit in the round.
* CONSULTING: Entrants in parli debate may ONLY prep with their partners, and may NOT confer or prep with any other person (including their coach or teammates) other than their partner. Violation of this rule can result in a forfeit / loss.
* COLORED PAPER: During prep the teams will be given colored paper. The teams may write as much as they can on the colored paper during the 20 min of prep and they may take extra blank colored paper to the round to flow on. This colored paper and a writing utensil(s) are the only materials they are allowed to have in the round. The color of paper will change each round.

Put simply:

1. Only paper materials can be brought into the prep room – no electronic devices.
2. Debaters may consult ONLY with their individual partners.
3. Debaters may only take their colored paper and a writing utensil to their round. No other materials may be used in the round.”

Tabulation rules

There will be 6 prelims

“We will break to double-octas in the event if 80 or more teams complete the preliminary rounds in a given event. Otherwise, the event will break to octas. As of 1/28/2010 each event has more than 100 teams entered.”

“TABULATION PROTOCOLS AND PRIORITIES: Tabulation priorities for Policy, LD, Public Forum and Parli debate are as follows (of course, only as applicable; for example, power protection for rounds 1 and 2 applies only to varsity CX and varsity LD, which are the only events for which we take prior records):

Rounds 1 and 2, preset based upon power protecting those teams with the strongest record (or randomized for events where no prior records are taken);

Round 3 high-low based on wins, points, then opp wins;

Round 4 high-low based on wins, high-low points, total points, opp wins;

Rounds 5 and 6 (and 7 for Varsity Policy and LD) are high-low based on wins, combination of opp wins and points, high-low points, double high low points if approprIate (round 6 and/or 7), ranks.

Additional tie-breakers for all prelim rounds are at the tab staff’s discretion, with the exception that “chance” or “coin toss” or “random number” are always the last option.
CLEARING: For clearing, the priorities are: Wins, high-low points, double high-low points, total points, opp wins, combination of opp wins and points; beyond that, as designated by the Executive Director of the tournament in consultation with the tab staff.”