PSCFA Fall Champs

btw, awesome tournament schedule this year! I love not having to forfeit round 4 anymore!

Entries are due tonight. The field currently stands at 19 entries from 9 schools in the senior division.

It’d be nice if we could do some shared intelligence gathering about what people might be running. A lot of teams don’t have wiki pages which is frustrating, so just post here if you have anything to add.

APU – Ballast Water
Cal Baptist – ATC Privitization
CSU-LA – Native American road improvements
El Camino – ???
IVC – ???
Orange Coast – ???
Pt. Loma – Ferries
San Joaquin Delta – ???
UCLA – eSeals

Bad News (for everyone): I am judging at Fall Champs this weekend.
Worse news: Because of a computer glitch, I have double judging codes in both Debate (47, 51) and in IE’s (40, 41). Somebody please clue Danny in. Thanks!

ivc was running cell phone towers, make it so they can’t switch signal between towers while moving… like in a car
el camino was running danny’s aff and then they were running the airline passenger protect act or something like that where airlines have to pay consumers who are stranded on flights on the tarmac
1 delta is/was rocking a camp aff – the other is running something random he wrote (love you andrew)

fyi, csula may break something new at this tournament, maybe.

Delta was running a Cap K at UoP

Cool.

Come to think of it I’m probably going to break a new aff as well…not really that high on my current aff. We’ll see, depends if I have time or not this week.

also, I just found out that my parli debate partner is doing ld, too. I have no idea what he plans to run…

Great tournament everyone. Thanks especially to Danny for doing all the hard work to make it possible – I was amazed at how well we stuck to the tight schedule.

In Senior NFA-LD -

Gold winners were OCC Megan Towles and CSU-LA Mat Swanson

Silver winners were UCLA Nick Matthews and San Joaquin Delta Andrew Thomas.

Bronze winners were OCC Mohammed Aly, Point Loma Ian Sharples, Cal Baptist Alex Lamascus, and one other debater that I am forgetting at the moment.

No speaker awards were given, but the results packet should contain them. (From what was on my ballots, I had 60/118 speaks so I’m kind of assuming that I was top speaker, but I may be wrong).

Congrats to all, I was hoping they would set up a final round between the two golds for fun but i guess not… I was going to run a blatantly nontopical case on black feminism but now that isn’t going to happen :’(

oh well, it was great to see everyone again and I can’t wait until I get to see you next!

I am going to “give out my aff” on the wiki case list as promised after finals are over (end of this next week). I hope that others will join in the the detailed info that I am willing to provide! let’s try and get this case list rocking out!

The results packet is now out and can be downloaded here:

http://www.forensicstournament.net/results/242-2009%20PSCFA%20Fall%20Champs%20LD%20Cume%20Sheets.pdf

When I got home after 12am I wasn’t thinking to well and I forgot to mention something…

If parli gets speaker awards why can’t ld? I think that we should be recognizing our tops speakers, Nick hands down in this instance (beat me by 2 points h/l meanie!), because many LD’rs seem to not do parli (or at least do parli by choice). I know Nick only does LD and Alex was focusing on LD earlier, it is great to see him on the parli side with Rebecca, and we should acknowledge their speaking skills as much as anyone in parli. takes an extra minute to do top 10 with awards for 1-3/5 for each division. When (at PSCFA especially) there are already 3 million events and 3 divisions of each it doesn’t make a big difference. With the split awards it would make even less.

Btw, awesome idea to split the tournament like they did with debate then IEs, I love whoever got that ball rolling!