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Las Vegas Nationals Results

Jenna Huebner of Appleton East placed 5th in Prose at Nationals. This marks the second major accomplishment for Appleton East nationally this year. Earlier this year an Appleton East Duo team placed 4th at NCFL Nationals. Congratulations to Mike and Deb Traas for their amazing achievements at Nationals this year!

For results about other contestants, see our other Nationals thread. For full coverage of the award ceremony, surf over to Victory Briefs Daily and check out their coverage.

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Live from Las Vegas… Thursday at NFL Nationals 2008

Thursday is the make or break day for contestants still in main event, supplemental, or consolation events. By the end of the day, one will have either made a final round or not. Later tonight, the finals of HI, DI, and Duo will be preformed at the Cox Pavillion at the UNLV campus with the remaining events going on Friday. Here’s a list of the Wisconsin folks still in the hunt for a National Championship:

• James Madison Memorial has Matt Scales, Chris Tate, and Sarah Arbaje still in Prose and Poetry after round 5 (~top 75).
• Appleton East has three contestants still in Prose after round 5(~top 75).
• Kristen Wisniewski has advanced to round 5 in Extemp Commentary (~top 75).
• Numerous people are still competing in Storytelling or Impromptu

Good luck to all of those competing today. Remember, there’s more than one way to make a final round.

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Live from Las Vegas… NFL Nationals 2008

Here’s a place for our WFD correspondents to provide coverage of how Wisconsinites are faring at the Desert Lights Nationals.

• In the Congress Senate, Nicolet’s Gabriella Friedman advanced to semifinals.
• In the Congress House, Marquette’s Noah Charles advanced to semifinals.
• In Public Forum, James Madison Memorial’s team of Valerie Shen and Lingran Kong advanced to rounds 7 and 8, but did not advance to round 9.
• In Humorous Interp, Appleton East’s Kyle Krueger advanced to rounds 7 and 8, but we have received no word as to whether he’s moved forward.
• In Policy Debate, Both Spash teams advanced to rounds 7 and 8, but again no word as to whether or not they advanced to round 9.

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Live From the Grand Nationals

The National Catholic Forensics League is holding its Grand National Tournament this weekend in Appleton Wisconsin. The contests advancing to elimination rounds have been posted on the Fox Cities NCFL Website. Clearing from Wisconsin were:

Duo 4629: Green Eggs and Hamlet
Policy 193: Marquette HM
Policy 180: Neenah OO

We’ll add more names as they become available to us. Bill Batterman and Nick Bubb will be at Appleton West tomorrow - come by and get your picture taken!

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Live From the TOC

One of our friends in the debate community, Georgia Forensics Daily, is providing coverage of the National Tournament of Champions in Policy Debate. Several Wisconsin coaches, including Bill Batterman, Jon Voss, Noah Trilling, and Nick Bubb are in attendance - as well as several Wisconsin debate alumni - Katie Klante and Carly Wunderlich. (And Sheboygan North KM is competing). (Link here).

If you’re interested in Lincoln Douglas or Public Forum, those updates are being covered by our friends from Victory Briefs Daily. (Link here)

Adam Jacobi and Jim Jacobi are here helping run the the Congress Tournament of Champions. Though we are not sure where we can get congress updates.

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Live From Woodward: Novice Octafinals

After six rounds, WI has advanced two teams to the novice-division octafinals of Woodward Academy’s First and Second Year Championships.

Sheboygan North’s Nichelle Letson and Brandon Pakkebier went 4-2 in prelims, and are currently negating the resolution against a team from the Westminster School (Atlanta, GA).

Marquette University High School’s Michael Hoffman and Jack Mackay went undefeated through prelims and are currently negative against the Kinkaid School (Houston, TX). In addition, Michael was the tournament’s 3rd speaker, and Jack was 2nd.

Results from the octafinals, and hopefully a full bracket/quarters pairings will be available sometime tonight.

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Live from NFL Northern Qualifiers: After Day One

After three rounds, a field that was once ten teams big has been narrowed down to five.

3-0
Sheboygan North KM
SPASH SM

2-1
Neenah OO
Appleton East CM
SPASH IW

Tomorrow:
The 3-0’s will debate one another. Both teams are due negative, so a random draw will determine sides. SPASH IW and Neenah OO will draw for a bye. The team that does not receive the bye will debate Appleton East CM.

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Weekend Open Thread: Hortonville and West Bend

Competition begins this afternoon in Hortonville as the Polar Bears host their annual debate tournament. Meanwhile, the West Bend Debate Invitational will take place on Saturday. Feel free to use this thread to post updates from either tournament. We are also still looking for results from Merrill, so please email Nick or I if you are able to help.

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Live From Nicolet: Sheboygan North KM Wins Varsity Policy

The Nicolet Debate Tournament came to a close on Saturday evening at around 8:30PM as Tournament Director Jason Chapman announced the champions. In the final round, Tim Knoedler and Laurel Mills of Sheboygan North debated Rauvin Johl and Val McIntosh of Brookfield Central. The panel of Tyler Jackson, Ben Schultz, and Bill Batterman voted unanimously for the negative from Sheboygan North.

Congratulations to Tim and Laurel and their coach, Jon Voss.

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Live From Nicolet: JV Policy, Novice Policy, and PF Results

Complete results from the Nicolet Debate Tournament in JV Policy, Novice Policy, and Public Forum are available below the fold.

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