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Cool potd, in case you haven't figured it out already, I love any picture with good atmospheric effects, and this does that.
I'm going to do something I've never done before, namely I'm actually going to into some detail when discussing my debate tournament instead of just whining about it, which I will do, just later. Wow, that was definitely a run-on sentence. I'm really digging Firefox's spell checker.
I don't quite remember the order, but whatever.
First off the Minneapple tournament is one of the premier tournaments in the country. There were people from 63 schools and 18 states there, and in total 350~ debaters. They split the tournament into three schools, which was absolutely crazy, since us novices were stuck without a coach. Anyways the tournament was so crazy that there was an octofinals ToC bid, insanity.
Round 1: I'm against some Asian kid from California, and out judge is fifteen minutes late. So we talked and he complained about how could it was here, and we both moaned about the judge. Then the judge gets there and he is in a wheelchair, because he has no arms or legs. So I sort of sit there uncomfortably and feel guilty. It was really cool to watch he flow however even without hands, and he definitely flowed the best out of any of my judges. This round was really close; he drops my entire first contention, but he also had offense coming off the flow. And in the end the judge voted for him, which I felt was fair.
Round 2: This girl from Edina (Edina kids are the most messed up ever) reads her NC, and then I stand in stunned silence during Cross Examination. Her case said "Killing is justified when there is an eminent threat, but there isn't under domestic abuse." Which is the dumbest case you could possibly run when negating. All I had to do to win the round was show that there was an eminent threat, and then I could turn her entire case. I won that by quite a large margin, and the judge was actually legit, so she understood how badly I owned.
Round 3: This is against a kid from Lakeville (Which is the most pathetic team ever, they have around 70 novices, so they are bound to get someone good. Anyways this was pretty close, but I felt I came out ahead. Then the judge, who must have been brain dead writes on the ballot "I vote neg, because the Aff concedes to Negs value of Justice." No durh I did, my value is a just response, hmm...they seem kinda the same to me. So the kid gets a cheap win off, and then breaks and gets a pretty apple trophy. Grr.
Round 4: This was a pretty typical and boring, and I picked up because my case was better. This makes makes for 1 aff win and one neg 1 so far.
Round 5: The judge arbitrarily decided that my opponent won, so not much I can do about that.
Round 6: This round was really funny, because my opponent didn't have a chance. Not because she wasn't good, but I had the cheapest strategy ever. The judge brings her three year old daughter along, so I pull out every card I have dealing with the effects domestic had on children, which made a pretty convincing and scary AC. And also thanks to the judge, made the round really biased.
Yeah so I ended up 3-3, which is meh. But meh. The only thing that upsets me is that I failed two midterms in order to do this, so it's sort of a rip off.
