Flight Delay!

Due to bad weather in Dallas, we've been moved to NWA flight 1675 which flys directly to Austin. Estimated arrival is 10:07PM. All is well.

Practice This Week

Here is what practice looks like this week:

Monday -- North @ 5:30
Tuesday -- off; this is a change
Wednesday -- North @ 5:30
Thursday -- Fly to Austin, TX; no practice
Fri-Sat -- Debate at UT; new topic is released
Sun -- home in time to watch football

Experienced debaters who debated last weekend need to have a rebuttal prepped and ready to re-do on Monday.  We want to hear either your 2A or 2N from a round that was hard for you. 

Finally, a reminder that the Awards Night for debate is December 19th at 6:30PM.

Debate Shirts

From: Bailee Rasmussen
Date: Nov 24, 2006 5:15 PM
Subject: [Lakeville Debate] Shirts

The shirts are in. SO, if you want yours, come to practice before 5:15 on Monday!! It would be nice to hand them all out on Monday so I dont have to lug around that huge box anymore!

Final Glenbrook Results

Tom Caruso loses his semifinal round at Glenbrook on a 2-1 ballot. We are all proud of his performance. He broke as the #1 seed in JV and did not drop a ballot prior to his loss in semis.

Karen Zhou was 2nd speaker in JV and Julie Schmidt was 8th speaker in JV.

Bailee Rasmussen was 39th seed in Varsity -- top 36 break, so very close only needing 1.5 more points, out of 210 possible.

Christian Keil was the 17th seed going into JV octos missing the break by .5 speaker points.

Flight 788 arrive at 4:09PM -- see you then!

Tommy C Wins Quarters

Tom wins 3-0 and is invited to the Breakfast of Champions before semis tomorrow.

Tom in Quarters

Tom is busy debating Catalina Foothills in quarters right now.  Tom is negative.  That's all!

Octos Results from JV

Updated:

Tom wins 3-0.

Karen drops.

More when we have it.

JV Octos + Var Round 7

JV is in octos, varsity in round 7.

Varsity:
Monte Vista Danville NV vs. Tyler
Greenhill LM vs. Bailee
Courtney vs. Salpointe Catholic AH
Hannah vs. Menlo Atherton AC

JV Octofinals (top 16):
Karen and Tom qualify for octos!

Karen vs. Apple Valley MK (flip for sides)
Cherry Creek AS vs. Tom (neg)

Round 6 @ Glenbrook South

An hour from kickoff and we're starting round six!

Varsity:
Tyler vs. Spanish River EP
Bailee vs. Presentation NA
Myers Park YS vs. Abbie
Hannah vs. Hockaday DB
Monte Vista Danville NV vs. Courtney

JV:
Karen vs. St. Louis Park MS
Christian vs. New Trier JS
San Marino NL vs. Julie
Tom vs. Lake Highland Prep LF

Round 5 @ Glenbrook South

It's 8AM and we're underway for another day!

Varsity:
Loyola CA vs. Tyler
Abbie vs. Vestavia Hills JL
Desert Vista TY vs. Hannah
Courtney vs. Torrey Pines VF
Newark Science FM vs. Bailee

JV:
Julie vs. St. Louis Park CD
Cherrry Creek PA vs. Christian
Plano Senior AK vs. Tom
Brentwood MS vs. Karen

Peter flew in last night after the Harvard-Yale football game, so he's joined us for watching rounds. And Kenny finally has been assigned rounds to judge. :)

Results From Cooper

Here are the results from Cooper:

Varsity Results
JV
Novice

Pat Wins Cooper!

This just in via text message:

Pat Arnold wins the Cooper tournament.

Kelsey Buehrer 3rd in JV

Jessica 5th speaker in JV
Molly 5th speaker in Novice

Congrats!

Round 4 @ Glenbrook

Subject: Round 4 @ Glenbrook Round 4
Varsity:
San Marino CH vs. Hannah
Valley EL vs. Bailee
Los Altos Dm vs. Tyler
Colleyville Heritage TL vs. Courtney
Abbie vs. James Logan EL

JV:
Grapevine SB vs. Julie
MBA DG vs. Christian
Tom vs. Cherry Creek AS
Karen vs. SLP CD

Pat in Cooper Finals

This info just called in from Robbinsdale Cooper:

Pat Arnold is in Varsity finals vs. Cooper DW.

We'll post an update when we've got results.

Go Pat!

Round 3 @ Glenbrook South

Varsity:
Bailee vs. Kinkaid KB
Courtney vs. Rosemount DJ
Tyler vs. Archer MS
Hannah vs. Evanston EL
Eden Prairie RL vs. Abbie

JV:
Christian vs. Grapevine SB
Julie vs. Churchill LB
Hockaday ES vs. Karen
Vestavia Hills LX vs. Tom

Round 2 @ Glenbrook South

205 teams in Varsity
86 in JV

Varsity:
Ransom Everglades SM vs. Abbie
Apple Valley TG vs. Hannah
Albuquerque Academy SM vs. Bailee
Courtney vs. Bronx Science MD
Tyler vs. University-FL CB

JV:
Sacred Heart KF vs. Karen
Presentation KM vs. Julie
Christian vs. Lake Highland Prep LF
Grapevine CM vs. Tom

Round 1 @ Glenbrook South

Round 1 started at 8AM with a 7:30 release of schedules!

Varsity:
Bailee vs. Brophy Prep KC
Abbie vs. Kinkaid BT
Edina TB vs. Tyler
Bainbridge GN vs. Courtney
Hannah vs. Monticello KR

JV:
Tom vs. Johnson CJ
Karen vs. Colleyville Heritage MS
Julie vs. Mountain Brook KW
New Trier KR vs. Christian

The flight over here was easy and on-time. Flight attendants told a
good Packer joke that made fun of Brett Favre. Hotel is nice.

College National Championship

If you ever wonder what debate in college looks like -- or just want some inspiration -- check out this video clip.

Upcoming Schedule -- All Debaters

NO practice for anybody on Monday -- a day off to catch up or do some work on your own.

Here is the schedule for the week:

Monday -- No practice
Tuesday -- Glenbrooks people, 5:30 @ North IMC
Wednesday -- Practice, 5:30 @ North IMC
Thursday -- Practice, 5:30 @ South IMC
Friday -- No practice, Glenbrook people fly out
Saturday -- Cooper

Then, NO practice the week of Thanksgiving.  We'll just take those days off to rest up for the stretch run of the season.

I will post more details later, so look for yet more information.

Photos from BSM

Here is a re-cap of results from Benilde-St. Margaret's:

Varsity:
We did not win the tournament, but had it been a quarters break, we would have had 5 of the 8 quarterfinalists. Courtney, Emily, and Tim Jennings all won speaker awards too.
3rd Courtney Erickson
4th Emily Julik
5th Pat Arnold

Junior Varsity:
Tom defeats BSM Nicole Pilarski in the final round on a 2-1 and is the champion. Christian Keil and Elisabeth White also win speaker awards.
1st Tom Caruso

Novice:
Another great week for Lakeville novices -- winning pretty much everything except the top 2 spots. Jesse, Steve, and Taylor all won speaker awards as well.
3rd Jesse VonWald
4th Steven Elliott
5th Taylor Ehlis

Results Packet from BSM

Finals are in progress right now...but lots of good news. I'll start with the fact that Tom Caruso is in finals of JV. More details when that's available. But, here we go with the packets:

• Varsity results
• JV results
• Novice results

Yay Lakeville!

Dec 1-2 @ UT-Austin

Longhorn Classic
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
December 1-2, 2006

Contact Andy Charrier at 651.387.8305 or send email to charrier@debate194.net if you have questions.

We are bringing a number of coaches along to judge and chaperone: Steve Kinsella, Liz Vieira, Katie Whillock, Peter Zhou, and Paul L. Starita. Mr. Gunderson (Luke's dad) is also coming along to help escort people to their rooms.

Transportation Information:
We will take a school bus from South and North to get to the airport.
Bus will leave South at 1:00PM and upper doors of North at 1:15.
You will need to call for a ride on Sunday when we return.

We are flying on American Airlines.
Outbound on Thursday, November 30th:
Flight 1655 30NOV MSP-DFW depart 415P arrive 650P
Flight 1629 30NOV DFW-AUS depart 730P arrive 830P
Return on Sunday, December 3rd:
Flight 1128 03DEC AUS-DFW depart 600A arrive 700A
Flight 1102 03DEC S DFW-MSP depart 810A arrive1025A

We will use Blue Shuttle to move from the airport to the hotel.

We are close enough to UT that we will walk to-from the tournament each day.

Hotel:
We are staying at the Super 8, 1201 North I-35, Austin, TX. It's the same place we stayed last year and it's a reasonable place to stay. There is a CVS next door and we had no trouble finding places to eat both in Downtown and near the university. Plus pizza delivery is an option as well.

APUSH students might consider photo-op near I-35 for flex points.

Other Information:
Ladies -- Bring a pair of comfy walking shoes and then change when you get to the building you are debating in. You might walk more than a mile to get to your round.

In Texas, you wait for the judge to arrive before you enter the room. Wait in the hallway. That's not like Minnesota where you get setup and wait for the judge. If you don't wait for the judge, it's considered impolite.

Print off this campus map and bring it with you. Actually, print a couple copies. :)

Here is a link to check the weather forecast.

Finally, bring your cell phone and charger. We'll make a directory like we did for Yale.

Tournament Schedule:
Just think of yourself as doing nothing but debating for 2 days and rid your mind of the idea that you'll actually follow this schedule. But, for those who need order in their lives, this is the planned schedule.

12:30-2:00 Registration: University Teaching Center, 21st and Speedway
2:00 Any section of debate can start as early as 2P, contingent on room situation!!
3:00-4:45 JVLD Round 1
7:15-9:00 CLD & JVLD Round 2
9:15-11:00 CLD & JVLD Round 3 (lagged hi//lo)

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
7:00 LD Pairings released at UTC
8:00-9:45 CLD Round 4 (hi/lo off 3)
10:00-11:45 CLD Round 5 (hi/lo off 4) JVLD Round 4 (hi/lo off 3)
12:45 Coaches' Challenge CLD, NLD
1:00-2:45 CLD Triples, JVLD Doubles
3:00-4:45 CLD Doubles, JVLD Octos
5:00-6:00 CLD Octos, JVLD Quarters
6:00-7:00 CLD Quarterfinals, JVLD Semis
7:00-8:00 CLD Semis, JVLD Finals
8:00-9:00 CLD Finals
9:00 (or ASAP) Awards Ceremony

Lakeville North Varsity:
Pat Arnold
Tom Caruso
Courtney Erickson
Alex Fernandez
Tyler Traub
Elisabeth White
Karen Zhou

Lakeville North JV:
Bryant Au
Luke Gunderson
Jessica Kanuit
Kelsey Meyer
Steven Elliott

Lakeville South Varsity:
Hannah Ames
Mike Berger
Abbie Gudmundson
Tim Jennings
Christian Keil
Bailee Rasmussen
Julie Schmidt

Lakeville South JV:
Jackie Caston
Joe Julik

See Grease!

Our own Kelsey Meyer is in charge of costumes for the Fall play. I've
heard the play is good -- so if you have a chance, take a friend and
support our team members who are also in Drama.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kelsey Meyer
Date: Nov 9, 2006 10:07 PM
Subject: [Lakeville Debate] okay, this is not at all debate related

everybody should got to Grease, it's really good, it starts tomorrow at 7:30 and the same time on saturday, sunday is at 2:00 and it's also
running next week. Please come, it's awesome and I'm in charge of the costumes, students cost 5.00 and adults are 7.00. see ya there!

--
Kelsey Meyer

Schedule for BSM

Here is the time schedule for the tournament tomorrow:

Registration: 7:15-7:45
Round 1: 8:15
Round 2: 9:30
Round 3: 10:45
Round 4: 12:30
Round 5: 1:45
Finals: 3:00
Awards: 4:00

Friday Night Work Session

As always, the Friday night work session is open to ALL of our team
members. So if you are looking for some computer time or time to ask some questions or have your case looked over, etc., the work session nights are a good opportunity.

This week we will meet a NORTH instead of our usual South location.
Time is the same, 5-7PM. (Change in location allows for the Tom vs.
Julie showdown!)

Furthermore, I'm asking all of the people competing at Glenbrook to come to the work session so that we can start looking at a few things to prep.

Andy.

Apple Valley Recap

Our trip to Apple Valley was great! We competed against 69 schools
from 18 states -- this was a national-level tournament, right in our
own back yard.

Lots of good news:

Lakevillle North finished 3rd in overall team sweepstakes, behind
Lynbrook and Edina. I have to think that Lakeville South was close to
that award too. The sweepstakes award is a measure of overall team
success.

Our Varsity debaters did not win any hardware, but were all in
position to break going into the last couple rounds. It's good to be
in a spot where you control your own destiny and things just didn't
fall their way in round seven. Alexandra Fernandez, Courtney
Erickson, Tyler Traub, Abbie Gudmundson, and Mike Berger all finished
with a 4-3 record.

JV debaters had a great tournament!
Tim Jennings -- Quarterfinalist
Lindsay Kubina -- Quarterfinalist
Elisabeth White -- Octofinalist
Julie Schmidt -- Octofinalist

Tim Jennings -- 1st speaker
Lindsay Kubina -- 6th speaker
Julie Schmidt -- 8th speaker

Christian Keil and Tom Caruso debaters were 4-2 but lacked enough
points to break.

Novice debaters also have plenty to be happy about:
Carissa VanSlooten -- Quarterfinalist
Taylor Ehlis -- Quarterfinalist
Steven Elliott -- Octofinalist
Alexandra Nelson -- Octofinalist
Sarah Lund -- Octofinalist

Alexandra Nelson -- 1st speaker
Carissa VanSlooten -- 6th speaker
Steven Elliott -- 8th speaker
Sarah Lund -- 11th speaker

AV Entry List

Here is a link that lists everybody who is competing at Apple Valley
this weekend -- it covers Varsity, JV, and Novice.

http://victorybriefsdaily.com/2006/11/02/field-report-the-minneapple-updated/

Andy.