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Rufus King/Alverno College Forensics Tournament Results

Friday, February 5, Rufus King held its tenth annual Congressional Debate at Milwaukee City Hall. For the second consecutive year, the top six students placing in the Senate advance to the University of Kentucky Tournament of Champions (TOC). Last year, Nicolet’s Gabriella Friedman and Jason Schwartz were the first Wisconsinites to compete in the TOC’s Congressional Debate division. This year, the bid attracted Ft. Dodge, Iowa’s Andrew Chou to join 12 Wisconsin schools and more than five dozen students in vying for the coveted top six spots.  West Bend East won the Congress squad sweepstakes award for the best rank quality average for teams with at least eight Congress entries.

Saturday, February 6, Rufus King held its tenth annual invitational forensics tournament, the sixth held in partnership with Alverno College.  Thirty six teams attended, constituting 436 entries. Brookfield East won the large school squad sweepstakes; Hartford Union won the medium squad sweepstakes, and The Prairie School won the small squad sweepstakes award.  Tournament director Adam Jacobi piloted a new software suite for tournaments, Tabroom.com.  While there were a few issues of adjusting to a software package written for a different state/region, overall it performed well, and the tournament was fortunate to have a number of experienced and calm tab coaches!

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Winneconne Forensic Tournament Results

Winneconne Forensic Invitational 2010
Saturday, February, 2010

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Sun Prairie Forensic Tournament Results

Sun Prairie Results

Large Team
1^st James Madison Memorial 342
2^nd Sun Prairie 337
3^rd Madison West 233

Individual results after the break

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Thursday Thing to Read: Help the NFL Give Away Pepsi’s Money

Yes. It’s back. Sort of.

The National Forensic League has released the following message:

NFL is a finalist for Pepsi’s Refresh Everything grant, which helps groups from across the country improve their local communities. NFL’s proposal will create weekend-long communication leadership summits in six major cities for students and teachers in Title I schools. Most of the grant money will be given directly to students, teachers, and coaches in the six major cities we serve. That’s over $210,000 directly into the hands of deserving students and educators.

We need your help to reach our goal! Grant recipients will be decided by community votes. Voting is open now! You may vote every day from today through the end of February. Visit NFL Online to read our entire proposal and vote to make speech and debate education available to new populations.

Also, here’s my random plug for Pepsi: Mountain Dew Throwback has been re-released. You’ve been notified.

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Extemp questions

As promised – here are the extemp questions that I wrote for the East forensic tournament. I hope you enjoy them, as I had a good time writing them

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Appleton East Forensic Tournament Results

Appleton East Forensic Tournament
January 30th, 2010
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Berlin Forensic Tournament results

Berlin Forensic Invitational 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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Rostrum Archive: Art McMillion

The National Forensic League has scanned and posted the September issues of the Rostrum from 1967, 1969, 1970, and 1971. Chronicling the previous year’s NFL National Tournaments, these issues contain content that any debate historian will surely find fascinating. The 1970 issue, for example, contains a congratulatory blurb about Art McMillion, the former West Bend and Eau Claire Memorial coach who is a member of both the WDCA and WFCA Halls of Fame.

Art McMillion Receives Second Diamond

Hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg and the NFL continues to post new historical content.

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NFL National Qualifiers

Southern Wisconsin
Policy
Matt Cekanor & Tyler Thur Marquette University HS
Abby Loxton & Jason Schwartz Nicolet
LD
Brendan Caldwell James Madison Memorial
Advik Shreekumar Brookfield East
PF
Valerie Shen & Lingran Kong James Madison Memorial
Alexis Wilkinson & Rachel Wilkinson Nicolet

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2010-2011 Policy Debate Topic Announced

The National Federation of High School Associations has released the policy debate topic for 2010-2011. Military Deployments was chosen. The wording of the resolution is listed below.

Military Deployments was chosen as the topic with 24 of the 37 votes cast on the topic.

Voting for Military Depoyments were: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming, The NCFL, The NFL, and The NDCA. Voting for China were: Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennslyvannia, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.

The wording of the resolution is:

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its military and/or police presence in one or more of the following: South Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey

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