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Congratulations to Phoenix Country Day School who won the ASDCA Middle School State Sweepstakes championship. Scottsdale Preparatory Academy was the runner-up team. The Arizona students of the future got a wonderful taste of what awaits them in high school. Thank you to treasurer John Wolnisty for his continued organization and support of this tournament.

UK Tournament of Champions

Congressional Debate

 

Congratulations to the following students who will compete in the final round tomorrow.  The round will start shortly after the Awards ceremony at the Campbell House tomorrow:

XAE Wettach

XKZ Seabrooks

XGY Hedayatnia

ACP Osaba

XGR Estel

XMR Wainer

XJC Kumar

ACX Bevard

XCR Kleinle

AGP Love

ACD Haq

XBK Hunschofsky

 

The following students will serve as Presiding Officers:

 

ADS Gordon

ALH Kannegieter

XAE Fadool

 

Would the following judges report to the Mason Headley room tomorrow by 10:30

 

Tracy Harrington

William Fritz

Harry Yu

Linda Dolan

Deborah Nicholls

Kathryn Stewart

Veneta Gilchrist

Nick Klemp

Jeff Harkleroad

Chris Harrow

Jay Stubbs

 

This semester has flown by.  We are near the end of our in-state competitions and looking ahead to our post-season travel.

First, congratulations to our champions at the AIA State Speech and Debate Tournaments from this past weekend.  Desert Vista was the Division 1 champion, and Phoenix Country Day School was the Division 2 champion.  Our host schools, Chandler and Salpointe Catholic, were exceptional, and deserve all of our thanks for opening their campuses up to us.

Please, please, PLEASE remember that all paperwork for the NSDA Qualifier tournament is due by this THURSDAY, 3/24.  This is due to NSDA requirements that everything get submitted 7 days in advance of the qualifier.  The tournament will be held at Mountain View High School, and the link to the invitation is http://www.joyoftournaments.com/nfl/az/info.asp.  Read all of the information contained in the invitation.  This isn’t like our other tournaments, and failing to complete a form could cause your entry or entire team to get disqualified.

After a competitive first semester, a wonderful ASU Southwest Championship, and the resumption of our instate tournament season this past weekend, there are a few events coming up:

There is an AIA meeting this Wednesday.

The Bobcat Bonanza at Central High School has gone to waitlist status due to a larger entry than anticipated.  The tournament directors hope to clear the waitlist as soon as they can.  Also, remember that the Bobcat will use the February PF topic to prepare for Harvard and Berkeley.

Keep your eyes on the JOT webpage for more information about the NSDA qualifier series and the State tournaments.  The Congress qualifier is on 2/27, so watch out for more information soon.

Thank you for all of your support this year, and here’s to keeping Arizona Speech and Debate some of the best in the country!

The AIA Speech and Debate Advisory Committee will hold its regular committee meeting on January 20th, 2016.  If you have any items you wish discussed, submit them to your conference representative, or to Beth Clarke.

Here are the Division 1 Debate Ballots for the tournament held at ASU last weekend.  Thank you to all of the judges and coaches who made this all possible, and huge thanks to the ASU Speech and Debate team for being our gracious hosts.

Varsity_PD_Prelims

Novice_PD_Prelims

VPF_Round1 VPF_Round2 VPF_Round3 VPF_Round4

NPF_Round1 NPF_Round2 NPF_Round3 NPF_Round4

NLD_Round1 NLD_Round2 NLD_Round3 NLD_Round4

VLD_Round1 VLD_Round2 VLD_Round3 VLD_Round4

NLD elims

NPD elims

NPF elims

VLD elims

VPD elims

VPF elims

 

If you are attending the Division 1 Winter Trophy tournament at ASU tomorrow, please note the following registration locations.  This is a slight change from years past:

All Congressional debate will take place in the BA building at the south end of Cady Mall.

Registration will be in room BA 241

Houses will be in rooms BA 257, BA 258 or BA 265

Debate registration will take place in the SS building courtyard in the afternoon.  There will not be any registration at SS in the morning.

Thanks, and we hope to see you there!

The Winter Trophy tournaments are coming up soon.  Division 1 will be hosted by ASU and Division 2 will be hosted by Paradise Valley High School.  Thank you to Adam Symonds and Scott Johnson for stepping up as site hosts once again.  Winter Trophy will take place on December 4-5, 2016, and registration websites are located at http://www.joyoftournaments.com/az.  They’ll be up soon.

Also, remember that the Brophy tournament is this weekend, Red Mountain is next weekend, and then McClintock, Mountain View, and Dobson are coming up soon after.  Get your paperwork together and register for these competitions.  Good luck and see you at the tournaments!

For the Fall of 2015, the Arizona Middle School Public Forum debate topic will be:

“Resolved:  In the United States, the current system of federal income taxation should be replaced by a flat rate income tax.”

This topic will be used at all Middle School PF tournaments this semester.  There will be a new topic in the spring.

Congratulations to Horizon High School’s own Speech and Debate Coach, Susan Seep.  We know her as SWSDI’s “El Jefe,” the 2015-16 Arizona Speech, Debate, and Theater Educator of the Year, as well as serving as a 5A Conference representative.  However, her work on behalf of the teachers of her district has earned her the honor of the Paradise Valley Education Association.  In the words of the Association:

“PVEA is pleased to announce our October PROPS winner, Susie Chubrich Seep! Susie teaches Humanities at Horizon and also serves as the PVEA Vice-President. She was nominated by four of her colleagues at Horizon, and here is just part of their statement:

“Susie always goes way beyond the call of duty for not just her students, but the entire staff of HHS. It is amazing that one person can be as “on top of it” as she is. She spends countless hours here at Horizon as well as at other sites assisting teachers in all ways imaginable. Add to this her executive board duties and all she does there to support PVUSD teachers and this woman appears to be superhuman.