2009-2010 Season Sweepstakes!
Sorry for the delay, the week after Spring Champs it was off to Cedarville, Ohio followed by Spring Break. Here’s the final rankings for all three season awards we came up with back in September.
Lincoln Division (Highest % of adjusted wins in at least three tournaments)
1 Biola University
2 University of California, Los Angeles
3 California State University, Los Angeles
4 Pasadena City College
5 Mt. San Antonio College
6 Pt. Loma Nazarene University
7 Irvine Valley College
8 Azusa Pacific University
9 California Baptist University
10 Riverside Community College
11 El Camino College
Douglas Division (Highest number of adjusted wins in at least three tournaments)
1 Biola University
2 El Camino College
3 Irvine Valley College
4 California Baptist University
5 Pt. Loma Nazarene University
6 California State University, Los Angeles
7 Pasadena City College
8 Riverside Community College
9 Mt. San Antonio College
10 Azusa Pacific University
11 University of California, Los Angeles
Top SoCal-LD Debater (Highest Win Percentage in at least three tournaments)
1 Biola VanHuystee
2 Biola Hensley
3 CSULA Swanson
4 Biola McCurley
5 Biola Reynolds
6 Cal Baptist Lamascus
7 El Camino Maxwell
8 UCLA Matthews
9 Cal Baptist Rose
10 Biola Scofield
The detailed numbers can be found here. Obviously, the juggernaut that is the Biola University debate team has swept the awards. They have raised the bar for not only winning, but also (in my experience this year in judging) for class and critical thinking.
Hopefully, this year will be the next step in the continued growth of Lincoln/Douglas debate in Southern California.
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Just as an aside, how awesome would a tournament of champions be with the people from that list of 10 top LDers? Perhaps that’s something to throw together for next year, a kind of informal NPTE for SoCal LDers? I think the big problem would be scheduling against all the other nationals, and putting something together that schools wouldn’t be able to put on their schedules in advance. Maybe we could do it in the September of the following year on the new topic? Just brainstorming…
Congratulations to all the schools and debaters who participated this year! I’ll be working on some awards to send out to you all – if the top three in each division could email me I’ll try to arrange getting you some awards.
Mike – is there any easy way to figure out how many NFA-LD rounds there were in Southern California this year? Basically, any way to take account of the adjusted wins? I’d love to report how many debates we had this year in Southern California!
Congrats to Biola for sweeping the awards!
Mike – an NPTE-style tournament would sound pretty cool. I’m definitely in if it happens.
Danny – if you look at my Aff Side Bias post I counted up all of the rounds in Socal, and it came out to something like 565 prelim debates and 76 elim debates, for 641 total debates in Southern California.
That’s right – thanks Nick. That’s pretty amazing come to think 4-5 years ago there may have been 50-100 NFA-LD debates at APU and Pt Loma!
To clarify, under the site’s current guidelines (somewhat casual as they are), our sweeps end at Spring Champs. One of the discussions this summer would be to perhaps include the cool-off, and perhaps other tournaments as well. At the very least, perhaps we could organize a break-out group at the coach’s conference or start an e-mail list for just this sort of conversation.
My first inclination on the question of CCCFA is that it would seem odd to only include it in the years it takes place in Southern California. For the same reason, it would also seem odd to include tournaments like next year’s National Christian College tournament, which will be at APU next year but was in Ohio this year. At the same time, opening up these tournament in every year (and erasing the geographical distinction included in our sweeps) would invalidate the whole concept of “SoCal” LD debate, which is at the core of this enterprise.
I, for one, would be happy to support a Western United States LD champion as well, which would include several more tournaments, or even a yearlong individual sweeps covering the whole country. The tabulation would certainly be a lot easier than the politics involved. In any case though, I think we should protect the “SoCal LD Champion” in its current role.
Also I wonder If tournaments that exclude based on religion or even being a 4 or 2 year schools should count for sweeps.
An excellent point. Sounds like something else to explictly state to avoid ruffling feathers down the road.
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Congrats to the Bible Institute of Los Angeles for a clean sweep! I had a few to many problems at Spring Champs to pull out the upset against the new BIOLA power house!
(Apparently people will vote for dedev on the aff but they refuse to vote for kap bad on the opp….. or the T….)
In the end it was a great season and I am sad that it was my last. Hopefully I will be willing to find some people to coach that are as crazy (or the S-word, depends on how we look at it) enough to do LD next year! Proxy Debating FTW, JK.
Congratulations to all and to all good luck at PRP and NFA!