First off, make a search box. Second. Add a background image and/or header image. Third. Add a sidebar. Fourth. Add a link to LynbrookSDForums. Fifth. Add a password system for the official “Parli File”
Is it possible to specify a min height for #main-content and #nav so that the feet aren’t cut off on some of the shorter pages? (and yes, I will get around to making the legs shorter and making a footer after APs)
Gracias a Roberto para adding a “featured” tab to the front page, adding “posted on” information to posts and adding dates to the news section. Hopefully that will make the website easier to navigate.
I’m not very familiar with how fan pages work, but it seems like it’s a sort of a mini-blog for popular people. Having a min-blog about another blog is weird because if people check the fan page for news about POI, they might as well just check POI. Or am I missing something?
I’d think that the real benefit would be being able to invite people to the page…but then again, if we just post links to FB, the same effect is achieved.
I don’t think petitioning would be very effective. While individual NFL coaches might be supportive, NFL as an organization is incredibly backwards and all past attempts to get it to add parli have failed.
I see 6 avenues to make parli a national event
1) Build it on the local level first (a la John Meany). This means getting states other then Oregon and California to adopt it as a state tournament event. Lobbying an individual state organization is still difficult, but easier than lobbying NFL.
2) Get national tournaments such as VBT and Berkeley to adopt it (a la Matt Fraser at Stanford).
3) Become stinking rich, donate to NFL, get the event named after you (a la Ted Turner).
4) Work to create a parallel national league which offers parli (a la Matt Vassar’s NPDL). This is what I want to do.
5) Become a lifetime coach and rise through the ranks of NFL hierarchy until you’re influential enough to initiate reform.
6) Try your luck with other organizations such as TOC or NDCA. I suspect they would be more receptive.
@ Jason, state quals breaks to dub octos? last year with 60 entries at GGSA we had ~20 teams get a 3-1 record or better. Does that mean that 2-2s will break?
@Erik, I think Jason was responding to my query about how different schools select the teams which will represent them at State quals.
But on that note, how does GGSA’s squals tourney function? Do all 3-1s break?? In CFL we just break to a runoff round with only the highest seeded 4-1s…
CFL squals are tomorrow
Lynbrook will be sending:
Malhotra/Navaratna (wildcard) – MLK finalists, 1st alternates last year
Yu/Jain – Stanford champions, MLK finalists last year
Kanth/Unni – Stanford champions, 5th at States last year
Majumdar/Bora – second alternates last year
Singh/Nathan had a wildcard but won’t be attending, because Singh/Shan are going to squals in pofo to follow up on their Berkeley success.
@Artem “Our site designer makes an avatar for each user based on their personality traits.”:
As designer, I absolve myself from responsibility. Robert/Patrick deal with default gravatars.
Hey Jason, you and Brian going to any more tourneys this year? (besides squals / hopefully states…which I won’t see you at because we’re the team out of the 4 that can’t go ) We need another round to make up for that fail round at Stanford.
CFL finals
Bellarmine PH (Anthony Paranzino & Ali Hazrati)BYE
Leland OS (Robert Ott & Michael Song) BYE
Lynbrook MN (Ritik Malhotra & Tejas Navaratna) def. Gunn K? (Pamudh Kariyahasam & ?)[3-2]
Los Gatos VE (Robert Van Unen & Kate Epstein) def. Bellarmine KB (Tanay Kothari & Jacob Baker) [4-1] or [3-2]
Tejas and Ritik dropped in finals of SCU in ’06, finals of MLK in ’10, and also finals of CFL state quals in ’07, and then again in ’09. So congrats to them for not only qualifying to both States and the Cup, but also for breaking the finals curse.
Congrats to Robert/Kate, probably the most underrated team in CFL, for a long overdue breakout.
This may SEEM somewhat random, but does anyone going to the State Tournament have a foosball table (and/or a desire to participate in a Foosball Tournament?)?
Yeah. Here are the qualifiers.
1. Claremont High School: Patrick Wilkie and Daniel Musa
2. La Quinta High School: Armando Robles and Brittany Boiko
3. Carter High School: Matthew Jobe and Matthew Delgado
How does one qualify for the World Schools Debating Championships or the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships or the International Independent Schools Public Speaking Championships? Artem, we’re relying on your excellent investigative skills!
SDIVSL is actually making a strong showing this year. All 4 teams are composed of flow proficient and extremely strong speakers. The only reason I’m not 100% sure on the above is that we didn’t get a disclosure from our final round, and supposedly there’s some mathematical craziness that could make La Costa ZC the alternate or something.
WSDC (World Schools Debate Championships) is an international competition with one school from the USA. Team USA is run by Kate Shuster and John Meany of the Claremont McKenna College Debate outreach program. To qualify is incredibly competitive and they do not accept teams. It is a single person type thing.
Do note: the program and style is VERY different from Parli. Not so much in the rules, but in what exactly needs to be done to do well.
Auditions happen during different days in the summer. California auditions are held at CMC in Claremont, CA.
Source: I studied and was trained in the WSDC format last summer in anticipation of competition.
First off, make a search box. Second. Add a background image and/or header image. Third. Add a sidebar. Fourth. Add a link to LynbrookSDForums. Fifth. Add a password system for the official “Parli File”
This site is not affiliated with LSD and will not contain any materials that are not open to public. Working on the rest of the suggestions.
Is it possible to specify a min height for #main-content and #nav so that the feet aren’t cut off on some of the shorter pages? (and yes, I will get around to making the legs shorter and making a footer after APs)
Dear tech support
I’ll just list everything here and keep updating as I have new problems. So far:
Comments have dates when they were posted, but posts don’t.
Make .txt attachments searchable.
Get rid of the arbitrary double-spacing and alternating fonts in posts (!).
Make the text column wider or make the font more condensed.
Number the comments explicitly.
Gracias a Roberto para adding a “featured” tab to the front page, adding “posted on” information to posts and adding dates to the news section. Hopefully that will make the website easier to navigate.
I think POI needs a facebook fan page.
Interesting. What function exactly would it serve? How many people do you expect to join?
I’m not sure how many people we would expect to join but I’m guessing it would help expand POI.
I’m not very familiar with how fan pages work, but it seems like it’s a sort of a mini-blog for popular people. Having a min-blog about another blog is weird because if people check the fan page for news about POI, they might as well just check POI. Or am I missing something?
I see what you mean. I just thought it would be an easier way to expand POI for those that don’t know about it.
Victory Briefs has a Fan Page on FB.
I’d think that the real benefit would be being able to invite people to the page…but then again, if we just post links to FB, the same effect is achieved.
Speaking of website discussion, when did the little avatars become so monstrous?
My guess would be that they spontaneously changed to reflect how beast POI is.
Does anyone want to start a petition to get Parli to the NFL tourney?
I don’t think petitioning would be very effective. While individual NFL coaches might be supportive, NFL as an organization is incredibly backwards and all past attempts to get it to add parli have failed.
I see 6 avenues to make parli a national event
1) Build it on the local level first (a la John Meany). This means getting states other then Oregon and California to adopt it as a state tournament event. Lobbying an individual state organization is still difficult, but easier than lobbying NFL.
2) Get national tournaments such as VBT and Berkeley to adopt it (a la Matt Fraser at Stanford).
3) Become stinking rich, donate to NFL, get the event named after you (a la Ted Turner).
4) Work to create a parallel national league which offers parli (a la Matt Vassar’s NPDL). This is what I want to do.
5) Become a lifetime coach and rise through the ranks of NFL hierarchy until you’re influential enough to initiate reform.
6) Try your luck with other organizations such as TOC or NDCA. I suspect they would be more receptive.
This is now an open thread. On-topic comments are strictly prohibited.
So how do you guys determine teams from your school which get to attend State Quals?
Right now we have 4 very deserving teams for 3 spots.
4 prelims, double octas, elimination rounds til top 4
@ Jason, state quals breaks to dub octos? last year with 60 entries at GGSA we had ~20 teams get a 3-1 record or better. Does that mean that 2-2s will break?
I think state quals is stressful as hell in my league where there’s only like 8 legit teams. I can’t even begin to imagine what GGSA is like..
@Erik, I think Jason was responding to my query about how different schools select the teams which will represent them at State quals.
But on that note, how does GGSA’s squals tourney function? Do all 3-1s break?? In CFL we just break to a runoff round with only the highest seeded 4-1s…
LOL, on another note. Are the monsters randomized, or do they have something to do with the person who they represent.
Our site designer makes an avatar for each user based on their personality traits.
That would make sense, because my personality is definitely a stop sign shaped purple monster. LOL
Do we have CFL qualifiers yet?
CFL squals are tomorrow
Lynbrook will be sending:
Malhotra/Navaratna (wildcard) – MLK finalists, 1st alternates last year
Yu/Jain – Stanford champions, MLK finalists last year
Kanth/Unni – Stanford champions, 5th at States last year
Majumdar/Bora – second alternates last year
Singh/Nathan had a wildcard but won’t be attending, because Singh/Shan are going to squals in pofo to follow up on their Berkeley success.
In other news, Pennsylvania became the third state in the nation to offer parliamentary debate.
http://www.phssl.org/pdf/Parliamentary%20Debate%20Guide.pdf
The bad news is that they’re using worlds format…
@Artem “Our site designer makes an avatar for each user based on their personality traits.”:
As designer, I absolve myself from responsibility. Robert/Patrick deal with default gravatars.
Hey Jason, you and Brian going to any more tourneys this year? (besides squals / hopefully states…which I won’t see you at because we’re the team out of the 4 that can’t go
) We need another round to make up for that fail round at Stanford.
CFL Quallers?
Paranzino/? and Ott/Song byed through the go-round and are qualed, Malhotra/Navaratna are in the go round
CFL finals
Bellarmine PH (Anthony Paranzino & Ali Hazrati)BYE
Leland OS (Robert Ott & Michael Song) BYE
Lynbrook MN (Ritik Malhotra & Tejas Navaratna) def. Gunn K? (Pamudh Kariyahasam & ?)[3-2]
Los Gatos VE (Robert Van Unen & Kate Epstein) def. Bellarmine KB (Tanay Kothari & Jacob Baker) [4-1] or [3-2]
Tejas and Ritik dropped in finals of SCU in ’06, finals of MLK in ’10, and also finals of CFL state quals in ’07, and then again in ’09. So congrats to them for not only qualifying to both States and the Cup, but also for breaking the finals curse.
Congrats to Robert/Kate, probably the most underrated team in CFL, for a long overdue breakout.
I believe Pamudh’s partner was Jim Li, the policy guy. Those two are both pretty beastly…
Artem uses hyperboles too much.
@Artem: Stoked for state! Thanks for the excellent compliment. The decision was very close (3-2) and LSW on at least one of our ballots.
Our loss of the day was Parazino and Ali. Those two are studs
TCFL Squals tomorrow.
Good luck
If anyone could submit results packets from their respective qualifiers, that would be great. I need to update POI Rankings.
TCFL:
Cleveland LM (Iain Lampert/Molly Moran) advances to state [6-0]
Chaminade RC (Priya Rajan/Neeraj Chandra) def. Valencia WN (Jacob Waschak/Josh Nemiroff) [2-1 decision]
Campbell Hall SW (Ryan Sammi/Matt Walla) def. Valencia MF (Samuel Munster/Derek Feraldo) [2-1 decision]
Brodey/Gary lost in round 5 on what I think was an iffy decision to Valencia MF.
This may SEEM somewhat random, but does anyone going to the State Tournament have a foosball table (and/or a desire to participate in a Foosball Tournament?)?
I’m from Claremont and cbsr just had their state qualifying tournament yesterday. I’ll try to provide a link to the results when it’s posted.
Does anybody know how many spots WBFL got for parli on state
@ Daniel: awesome, thanks. Do you remember who qualified?
@ WindwardDebate: last year WBFL qualified two teams ( pointofinformation.org/news/chssa%E2%80%9909-coverage/ )
Yeah. Here are the qualifiers.
1. Claremont High School: Patrick Wilkie and Daniel Musa
2. La Quinta High School: Armando Robles and Brittany Boiko
3. Carter High School: Matthew Jobe and Matthew Delgado
How does one qualify for the World Schools Debating Championships or the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships or the International Independent Schools Public Speaking Championships? Artem, we’re relying on your excellent investigative skills!
@ Daniel: congrats. I sent you an email, répondez s’il vous plaît.
@ Wondering: I have no idea. One thing I remember is that there was a VBD post about this back in the day ( http://victorybriefsdaily.com/2007/09/18/team-usa-wants-you/ )
They’re officially announcing qualifiers at the awards ceremony next weekend, but I’m 90% sure it’s as follows.
Carlsbad GM (Sam Gardner and Natasha Maldi)
La Costa KD (Damon Karson and Katherine Dwyer)
La Costa ZC (Reza Zamarrodian and Brian Castelloe)
Alternate
Carlsbad LF (Jerry Lou and Stefan Fan)
SDIVSL is actually making a strong showing this year. All 4 teams are composed of flow proficient and extremely strong speakers. The only reason I’m not 100% sure on the above is that we didn’t get a disclosure from our final round, and supposedly there’s some mathematical craziness that could make La Costa ZC the alternate or something.
@Wondering
WSDC (World Schools Debate Championships) is an international competition with one school from the USA. Team USA is run by Kate Shuster and John Meany of the Claremont McKenna College Debate outreach program. To qualify is incredibly competitive and they do not accept teams. It is a single person type thing.
Do note: the program and style is VERY different from Parli. Not so much in the rules, but in what exactly needs to be done to do well.
Auditions happen during different days in the summer. California auditions are held at CMC in Claremont, CA.
Source: I studied and was trained in the WSDC format last summer in anticipation of competition.
Here’s a link to the CBSR Debate Quals Results. They open as a microsoft excel file.
http://www.forensicstournament.net/tnmt_results.php
Can any one tell if there are any other invitationals in california (other than scu2) before state?
cali cup is at lynbrooke?
As the front page of POI indicates, “the first annual California Cup will be held at Lynbrook HS on Saturday, April 3.”