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Thursday Thing to Read: State Tournament Trivia

It has been a long, long time since we actually had a proper Thursday Thing to Read. (And even longer since it has been written by me). While many teams will be finishing up their preparation this week for the state tournament tomorrow, we at Wisconsin Forensics Daily want to encourage teams to take a step back from the impending high-stakes competition and to relax before the storm.

To facilitate that relaxation in a positive way, we are providing some State Tournament Trivia. There are no exclusions on who can participate in this trivia game. The rules are the same as last weekend. Send results through the WFD forum and I am the sole arbiter of points. Hopefully more teams will participate than last weekend. (If you were curious, no one participated last weekend, and so I didn’t even post the results).

One last reminder: Bring your laptops to the tournament! Or if you’re a parent, stay close to your computer and away from the snow! We will be providing live updates from South Milwaukee. (South Milwaukee has an open wireless network and has allowed WFD to post round-by-round updates in the previous years that the State Tournament has been held there.)

1.) The Wisconsin State Debate Tournament was a new entity last year, marking the first time that the WHSFA and the WDCA had hosted a joint state tournament. Previously, the WDCA offered its own tournament, which has been known by two different names. What are they? (two points).

The Wisconsin State Tournament of Champions (STOC)*
The Tournament of Champions (TOC)* (Also T of C in some doccuments)
The Wisconsin State Tournament
Coaches
*- these were the names were were looking for

2.) The WDCA has offered a Varsity Switch-Sides competition since 1991. What program has won the WDCA switch side championship more often than any other? What years did they win the championship? (two points)

Brookfield Central (7 times): 1995-1996, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006

3.) True or False: For the old WHSFA State Debate Tournament, Varsity-Four Person and Varsity-Switch Side were once held on completely separate weekends in completely separate locations. (one point)

True The size of the tournament was once so large, that two weekends were needed.

4.) Many final rounds of the VSS division are memorable for their intense competition. One such round was the 2001-2002 final round. To this day, the round remains controversial. Who participated in the round? What happened? Why was it controversial? (five points)

Neenah BH affirmed and read their critical disarmament case; Marquette went for Irony Good. Controversial because of the Negative Strategy and the decision from the round. (3-2 for Neenah. Marquette openly critiqued the judges after the round)

5.) As long as we are talking about memorable rounds, we shouldn’t forget Lincoln-Douglas. In the semi-finals of the 2004-2005 State Tournament, one round was particularly memorable for the non-traditional affirmative strategy. Who were the debaters? What was the strategy? What was the decision? (five points)

Brookfield East’s Liz Viera was aff and read a narrative; Marquette’s Nicky Smith was neg. Liz won on a 2-1 decision. Nicky never answered the standards argument, dropped his own case, and went for narrative bad.

6.) The WHSFA is the older organization than the WDCA. Unlike forensics, debate was a competitive event in both organizations. Why did the WDCA create its own State Tournament? (two points - there are two main reasons).

To have a JV/Novice State Tournament and to allow multiple teams to participate. The WHSFA used to allow only one team per school

7.) The WDCA used to offer one now-defunct division. What was it? (one point)

Open-Switch Sides or Non-Varsity Switch Sides

8.) In order to determine the first place team in Varsity Four-Person, the WDCA has utilized more rounds than 3 and power pairing. In the past the WHSFA used an alternative method. What was that method? (one point).

Elimination Rounds

9.) The WDCA has awarded scholarships to senior debaters since 1992. What program has received the most amount of scholarships? (one point)

Cedarburg.

10.) The WDCA Hall of Fame is the older of the two WDCA coaches awards, despite the fact that it is given out that the organization’s spring meeting. Two of the Hall of Fame coaches are on this year’s tab room staff. Who are they? (two points)

They rhyme: Mike Traas and Rolland Faas.

11.) The WDCA established LD as a State Tournament event in 2001-2002. Despite it being a young event, this program had one year of completely dominating it. What was the program? What was the accomplishment? What year did it happen? (three points)

# Close-Out Champion - Paul Bender, 2002-2003
# Close-Out Champion - David Mark, 2002-2003
# Close-Out Champion - Casey Metz, 2002-2003
# Close-Out Champion - Nikolai Smith, 2002-2003
# Close-Out Champion - Matt Clark, 2002-2003

12.) This year’s event is at South Milwaukee. Name the location of the last twelve WDCA State hosts. Do not exclude multiple hosts. (Twelve really hard points - despite the fact that one is a free bee… We also have counted multiple schools if the tournament was hosted at two schools.)

2007-2008 - South Milwaukee
2006-2007 - Hortonville
2005-2006 - South Milwaukee
2004-2005 - South Milwaukee
2003-2004 - Wausau West
2002-2003 - Bradley Tech
2001-2002 - Hortonville
2000-2001 - Nathan Hale
1999-2000 - Appleton West & Appleton North
1998-1999 - UW-Oshkosh & Sheboygan North/South
1997-1998 - Waukesha South

13.) Going back to the scholarship winners. Two scholarship winners have become head coaches. Who are they and who did they coach for? (four points)

Kristi Plamann - scholarship 1995, coach at Hortonville
Jessie Wachs - scholarship 1999, now Jessie Hager, was coach at Madison West.

14.) Dating back to the WDCA’s start of start of switch-side policy debate competition, there have been several tournament directors. Can you name them all? (six points)

2006-2007 Traas
2005, 1999-2002 Noonan
2003-2004 Adam Jacobi/Laura Maly - also know as the terribly run years.
1998 Alex Inman
1994-1997 Bill McBride (I’m not sure about the years, but I know he was the STOC tournament director)
1991-1994 Jeff Holt (again, not sure about the years, but I know he preceded McBride.)

15.) This person is the only to win the WDCA top speaker award in the VSS division multiple times. (one point)

There are actually two - Gaurav Bhatnagar and Peter Klein.

16.) Between 2002 and 2005 one high school was the undisputed best program for Varsity Switch Sides in the WDCA. Name that program and how many teams they cleared to elimination rounds each year. (twelve points - big hint)

Brookfield Central –

2002-2003: HL in the quarters, MW in the semifinals, BB won.
2003-2004: HK in the octas, TY in the octas, HL in the octas, MW in the octas, BB won
2004-2005: LP in the quarters, LW in the semis, BB won.
2005-2006: LW won

17.) Up until last year, the WHSFA State tournament was always during January. When did the WDCA switch from January to December? (one point)

After the 1998-1999 tournament, before the 1999-2000 tournament.

18.) During the debate season, the Lincoln-Douglas topic was not always the current NFL topic. What was used instead? (one point)

They made their own

19.) True or False: During the 1980’s it was not uncommon for all of the coaches in at the tournament to judge the final round at WHSFA state.

True

20.) Name the affirmative read in the final round of Varsity Switch at WDCA State for the last six years. Name the team too. (Another 12 pointer)

2006-2007: Rufus King, Peace Corps
2005-2006: Brookfield Central, Homelessness
2004-2005: Brookfield Central, UN Arrears
2003-2004: Appleton West, Flags of Convenience
2002-2003: Hortonville, Deep Eco Education
2001-2002: Neenah, Disarm

21.) Two coaches have won championships as a debater and as a coach. One in LD and one in Policy Debate. (they’re may be others, but only two to my knowledge.) Name them. (two points). [Big hint, read the question carefully]

Nick Bubb. 2002 WFCA State Champion in LD and coach of Noah Triling, 2006 WDCA/WHSFA State Champion in LD.

There is now a third. Bill Batterman. 1999 WFCA State Champion in LD and coach of Marquette

22.) This is the only family to win the WDCA top speaker award twice. (one point). [I could be wrong here, if what we have on WFD is incorrect.]

Bhatnagar: both Manav and Gaurav were top speakers

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