Lynbrook takes the first annual Robert Garcia Invitational
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Pargat Singh and Carl Shan
In the final round of the Robert Garcia at St. Francis, the Government team, consisting of Mountain View debaters Rylan Schaeffer and Akshay Shrivastava stood off against Carl Shan and Pargat Singh from Lynbrook on the question of whether the swine flu panic has been blown out of proportion. The Opposition, arguing that the fears of swine flu are legitimate, won on an ever so close 3-2 decision. Carl and Pargat are coached by Ryan Lawrence; Rylan and Akshay are coached by Dan Schaeffer, Mick Vasquez and Stephen Hess.
Congratulations to both teams on their breakout performances in a very tough field, to Ryan Lawrence and Sean Mumper on making a good list of fun and educational topics for debate, and to Doug Dennis and the rest of St. Francis crew for running a great tournament!
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The St. Francis Tournament started this afternoon at 4:00 PM. Scheduling was done pretty well at the tourney, and there were little large delays between debates.
Resolutions:
1a: THB successful healthcare reform requires a public option.
1b: The United States ought to value freedom of information above national security concerns.
2a: International sanctions are an effective way to curb Iranian nuclear proliferation
2b: International sanctions are an effective way to curb North Korean nuclear proliferation
3a: The USFG should adopt a policy to significantly reduce carbon emissions in the United States
3b: The G-20 should agree to significantly reduce their dependence on fossil fuels
Judges are about 33% flow, 33% flay, and 34% lay. Seems like St. Francis will be a good tourney for the future, at least judge-wise.
Some interesting facts:
Scheduling works out to be three prelim rounds on Friday, three prelim rounds and then octafinals on Saturday, and the remaining elims on Sunday. Different than standard 2-3-1/elim distribution used in SCU, Dempsey-Cronin, etc.
Tourney follows semistrict CHSSA rules, so no laptop prep. However, PoO is usually allowed.
Parliamentary Debate gets its own prep rooms, mostly good because they contain power outlets to charge laptops we can’t use.
Teams at tourney:
Wu/Kim
Camacho/Asthana
Tekiyeh/Hamachi
Ying/Hwang
Yi/Polussa
Lee/Tatipamula
Luu/Terry
Qiu/Alafgani
Leigh/Ong
Kang/Chow
Shan/Singh
Ott/Song
Schaeffer/Shrivastava
LinLalu
Gardner/McCracken
Song/Jayasankar
Round 4 resolutions
The financial crisis is coming to an end
Capping executive pay does more harm than good
Happy, aRtEm?
whoa that’s a pretty strong field, especially for a first time tournament. lots of good teams
say hi to Jason
Round 5 Resolutions:
The USFG should substantially reduce funding for NASA
The USFG should substantially reduce its reliance on manned space travel
6.1:
The United States ought to value reducing Iraqi violence over respecting Iraqi sovereignty.
Parli Clearing Teams
Bye to Sems:
Camacho-Asthana
Shan-Singh
Debating Partial Quarters:
Lou-Terry
Schaeffer-Shrivastava
Qiu-Alafgani
LinLalu
For anyone wondering, ‘LinLalu’ is the unofficial nickname for Lin/Jaju.
hey thanks for the heads up. It’s good to know my and my partnered Byed. thanks again
You’re welcome, congrats on a good run in prelims.
Anyone know resolution for 6b?
I’ve been told that 6b is
“The USFG ought to value the peace of Iraq over the supremacy.”
No, 6.2 is more like
“The US should value eliminating terrorism over the rights of noncombatants”.
I’ve been told that LinJaju lost to Qiu in their partial quarters round.
Alafgani didn’t show up again, so Qiu mavericked.
Partial Quarters:
FlightA:
Schaeffer-Shrivastava (OPP) def. Luu-Terry (GOV)
2-1 decision
Resolution: The US should substantially increase troop levels in Afghanistan.
FlightB:
Qiu-Alafgani (OPP) def. Lin/Jaju (aka LinLalu) (GOV)
2-1 decision
Resolution: The USFG should substantially change its military policy in Pakistan.
Now in Semis: (GOV vs. OPP)
Camacho-Asthana challenged Schaeffer-Shrivastava
Camacho-Asthana vs. Schaeffer-Shrivastava
Shan-Singh vs. Qiu-Alafgani
Resolution:
In the US, journalists ought not be required to disclose their sources.
Semis:
Shan-Singh def. Qiu-Alafgani
3-0 decision
waiting on results of other semi round
Other Semis round:
Schaeffer/Shrivastava def. Camacho/Asthana
2-1 Decision
Finals:
Schaeffer/Shrivastava (GOV) vs. Shan/Singh (OPP)
Resolution: “The Swine Flu has been blown out of proportion.”
prepping right now
Results of Finals:
Shan/Singh def. Schaeffer/Shrivastava
3-2 decision
I would like to thank all the teams that we debated this weekend. You were all amazing(brian qiu, your awesomeness scares me) and i hope i have the chance to debate you again some time.
I would also like to thank the teams that competed this weekend. From the looks of it, this is going to be a very competitive year in parli debate. Congrats to Carl and Pargat.
Ditto what Pargat and Erik said.
Special shoutout to Brian Qiu for beating us twice while mavericking. (though I still contend that we should have won at least the prelim round if not partial quarters – which was closer)
I think everyone who broke or even held their own at this tournament deserve congratulations – the field was intense.
Nevertheless, I’d like to single out a couple people.
My former partner Carl Shan: the kid is really smart, and I hear he finally stopped spreading. Winning against MVLA on a ridiculously skewed resolution and getting 2nd speaker is pretty impressive. Stick with parli.
Alice: for those of you that don’t know her, Alice is a ridiculously hard worker, and her knowledge of current events is pretty terrifying. Good job on quarters, you’ll do even better next time.
Rylan: he was just straight down amazing when Carl and I debated him at squals, so I always expected him to have a breakout. That round was one of the best I had that year, even though we lost (ILLEGIT!, we should have won on T, but okay). I hope the Carl/Rylan rematch in finals was just as fun. You totally deserved that speaker award.
and the POI neophytes for their semis run:
Carl and I debated Erik at MLK last year, and he was one of the most fluent and composed speakers I’ve faced.
Jason was pretty beasty to, getting to sems without even bothering to show up.
Finally, I was unable to judge at St Francis (much to my dislike), but from all accounts, it’s been a really well-run tournament. The resolutions look amazing, and I think the Bay Area parli community has really benefited from Sean and Ryan coming down there to coach.
We’ll get a better picture of the champions up soon. Unfortunately Rylan ran off before we got him on tape, so it’ll be just the champions.
Rylan was first speaker, Carl was second. We’ll hopefully have the rest of speaker awards, along with a results packet up soon.
Carl managed to get down to 70 wpm? impressive!
@ Patrick: 70wps.
^__^
I believe Robert Ott got 4th speaker award
[...] Last weekend, I went to St. Francis’ Robert Garcia Invitational with ChangChun Hwang. We went 3-3, and hit both Ott/Song and Rylan Schaeffer. It was pretty fun, and I got to experiment with some things during downtime. I also started playing Halo© again, mostly for the multiplayer aspect. Judging also happened to be quite good, with many policy flow judges. You can see my coverage of the tourney at Point of Information. [...]