Olivia Flechsig and Max Esslinger win the second SNFI Camp Tournament
Week two of the two-week SNFI parliamentary debate program concluded this morning with a final round in which Olivia Flechsig & Max Esslinger successfully affirmed the resolution “The United Nations should make Brazil a permanent member of the Security Council” against Sarthak Agrawal & Lena Duffield.
Jon Thorpe and Kate Drew both voted for the affirmative. The floor vote, by a margin of 10 – 1, also favored the affirmative.
The final round was preceded by six preliminary rounds. The top-seeded team of Agrawal & Duffield completed their six rounds 6 – 0 and received a bye to the final. Number two seed Flechsig & Esslinger (4 – 2) defeated number three seed Dana Scott & Maddy Nam (3 – 3) in the tournament’s semifinal round.
The semifinal round was adjudicated by Becky Vastola and Peter Counts who both voted that Flechsig & Esslinger negated the resolution “True Love Waits.” The floor also voted 11 – 0 in favor of the negation.
Recordings were made of both rounds and will be made available. Agrawal finished as the tournament’s top speaker and was followed by Scott and Nam.
SNFI Two-Week parliamentary debaters are taught by Jon Thorpe and Kate Drew.
This report courtesy of the Bishop O’Dowd team
- There are no comments yet
Leave a Reply