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Point of Information!
As a parting gift to the world of parliamentary debate, Artem Raskin has decided to create a website for parliamentary debate results and resolutions. Patrick , Artem, Aditya, and I have been mass uploading content onto the site, kindly provided by Artem (no idea how he got it).
This header image (created by the one and only Alice Lin) will be up shortly – unless it goes through yet another revision.
Point of Information can be accessed here. It will be updated regularly, so we may end up going to POI for results instead of (illegally) posting them on the forums.
SCU 2
Well, SCU 2 is finally done. Surprisingly, we won 3 rounds and lost 2. We obviously didn’t break.
Rd. 1 = Loss
Rd. 2 = Win
Rd. 3 = Win
Rd. 4 = Win
Rd. 5 = Loss
I do think the round 5 loss was justifiable, however, seeing as the team we faced (Leland Ott/Song) won SCU1
Edit: There was a tab screw – SCU follows Verizonmath: we were eighth seed, yet the top 8 (quarters) is apparently
1st seed, 2nd seed, 3rd seed, 4th seed, 5th seed, 6th seed, 7th seed, and 9th seed. WTH?
On a happier note, this has been my first tournament with the same partner, and I still have a winning record on average. We beat both the Leland teams that broke. W00t!
Alright. So, here’s what actually happened, AFAIK, at SCU2:
They were being lazy @$$holes, and only counted the first 4 prelims in breaks. Therefore, since that meant we were 3-1 low speaks, we didn’t break. However, in the fifth round, we won. And 4-1 was guaranteed break. Also, that meant that Leland OS went 3-2, and probably wouldn’t have broken. I don’t really like SCU now.
Last note: Seeing as SCU2 staff is inherently incapable of thinking, it is not a surprise that they managed to misread 2 “j”‘s as “l”s. Therefore, there was a Lynbrook team LL, consisting of Alice Lin and Chinmay Lalu. Of course, Chinmay’s actual last name is Jaju. He took this in good humor, and for the foreseeable future, Lynbrook LJ will be known as linlalu, joining the ranks of vikro and vinaak (as well as sarun and karicong) .