Northeastern

On November 6-7, Dartmouth Parli traveled to Boston, MA to compete in the Northeastern tournament. Northeastern is a "Pro-Am" style tournament, which means that each team was comprised of one varsity and one novice debater. This format gave our novices some valuable experience, as they were able to learn from their more seasoned partners. Andrew Wansley '10 and Anuj Gupta '13 had the most success of any Dartmouth pair, breaking and finishing in 12th place. Marcus Gadson '10 and Ishita Kala '13 had a strong tournament as well, just missing the break. Will Hix '12, Claire Kim '13, Jon Choi '11, Chris Kendig '10, Jacob Hickson '13, and Amy Zhang '13 also competed at Northeastern.

Tufts

On October 30-31, nine members of the Dartmouth Parli team spent part of their Halloween weekend in Medford, Ma for the Tufts tournament. This was arguably the team's most successful tournament of the year thus far, with two pairs breaking out of a field of nearly 80 teams. Tarang Agarwal '11 and Marcus Gadson '11 finished as the 7th place team, while Joe Huston '10 and Andrew Wansley '10 advanced to semi-finals, finishing 4th overall. Joe finished as the 4th place varsity speaker and Marcus finished 10th. Also competing at the tournament were Connor Beatty '10, Campbell Miller '12, Richard Asala '13, Aditya Talwani '13, and Jacob Hickson '13

Vassar

On October 16th-17th, Connor Beatty '10 & Tim Goh '12 and Jon Choi '11 & Chris Kendig '10 went to Vassar college for their annual debate tournament. Both pairs had solid tournaments and individually, Chris was the 7th novice speaker at the tournament.

Harvard

On October 9th-10th, Dartmouth sent a large contingent down to the Harvard tournament in Cambridge, MA. As in previous years, Harvard was one of the biggest and deepest tournaments of the year, with nearly 150 teams participating in the competition. Andrew Wansley '10 and Connor Beatty '10 went 4-1, earning a spot in octo-finals, where they lost to MIT. Marcus Gadson '10 and Tarang Agarwal '12 were also in the running for the break before dropping in a bubble round. Also in attendance at the tournament were Anuj Gupta '13, Ishita Kala '13, Jacob Hickson '13, Valentina Semenova '13, Claire Kim '13, Sahil Joshi '13, Adaitya Talwai '13, Richard Asala '13, Amy Zhang '13 and Rachael Wang '13. For most of our novices, this was their first collegiate tournament, so it was a great learning experience for them. Here are some pictures of the team!

Connor and Andrew

Marcus and Tarang

Claire and Sahil

Everyone!

Columbia

On October 2-3, Dartmouth sent 2 teams to NYC to compete in the Columbia tournament. Joe Huston '10 and Andrew Wansley '10 picked up right where they left off last spring, going 4-1 and breaking to quarters. Joe was the 9th varsity speaker at the tournament. Attending their first tournament were Paul Finkelstein'13 and Anuj Gupta '13. They were among one of the stronger novice pairs at the tournament, with Paul earning 7th place novice speaker.

Smith

This past weekend, Marcus Gadson '10, Connor Beatty '10 and Tim Goh '12 traveled to Smith College to compete in the Dartmouth Parli Team's first tournament of the year. Tim and his partner, Allegra Pincus of Brown, had an impressive tournament. They went 4-1, missing the break on a tie-breaker, and finished in 9th place overall. Marcus and Connor were in contention for the break as well, winning 3 of their first 4 rounds before dropping round 5 to a Brandeis pair that went on to finish in 2nd place at the tournament.

The team will spend this upcoming weekend training the incoming novice class, before traveling to Columbia in two weeks.

Welcome Back!

Dartmouth Parli's 2009-2010 season is underway! Here is our schedule for novice training week:

Wednesday, 8:00pm - 9:00pm, Rockefeller 2: Intro meeting, APDA Overview
Thursday, 8:00pm - 9:00pm, Rockefeller 2: Introduction to Flowing
Saturday, 1:00pm - 4:15pm, Rockefeller 1: Novice Training Weekend day 1
Sunday, 1:00pm - 4:15pm, Rockefeller 1: Novice Training Weekend day 2

Next week, we will settle into our usual routine, with meetings on Monday and practice rounds on Wednesday and Thursday.