Northeastern Results

On February22-23, four Dartmouth teams braved the snow on their way to Boston, where they competed in the Northeastern debate tournament. The team had a strong tournament all around, with three of the four pairs making it to bubble rounds. Although no one made the break, several Dartmouth debaters brought trophies back with them to Hanover. Just a week after competing in her first ever debate tournament, Jen Gaudette '10 teamed with Connor Beatty '10 to finish as the 10th varsity team. Reyad Allie '11 and Tarang Agarwal '11 earned their second straight appearance in novice finals, where they defeated a Brandise pair to finish as the top novice team. Tarang also finished as the 4th novice speaker.

Jen, Tarang and Reyad: all among the top novices at Northeastern

Marcus and Jen discuss cases

Results From Amherst

On February 15-16, the Dartmouth Parliamentary Debate team traveled to Amherst, Ma to compete at the Amherst debate tournament. Andrew Wansley ’10 had an impressive tournament, teaming with Steven Kryger of Yale to finish as the 4^th place team. Additionally, he received 10^th varsity speaker. Amherst was also a breakout tournament for several of our novices. Three Dartmouth novices were among the top 10 novice speakers, including E McNeill (2^nd), Reyad Allie (3^rd), and Tarang Agarwal. Tarang and Reyad also finished as the 2^nd novice team.

The team hanging out in General Assembly

Tarang and Reyad celebrate their appearance in novice finals

NYU Results

On February 1-2, four Dartmouth teams went down to New York City to compete in the NYU tournament. NYU hosted one of the largest tournaments of the year, with exactly 100 teams competing for only 8 break round spots. Two Dartmouth pairs, Joe Huston '10 and Marcus Gadson '10 as well as E McNeill '11 and Jonathan Choi '11, both got off to impressive 3-1 starts before each falling in round 5 to teams that made the break. E and Choi ended up as the 8th novice team at the tournament.

Here are some pictures from NYU


The view from GA


Tarang, Marcus and Sourabh hanging out between rounds.


Joe enjoying his pizza

Bates Results

On January 18-19, the Dartmouth Parliamentary Debate team traveled to Bates College for the first competition of Winter Term. Bolstered by the return of several teammates who were off last term, Dartmouth was able to field several experienced teams for the tournament. As a result, 3 Dartmouth teams finished in the top ten, with Kevin Karp ’10 and Marcus Gadson ’10 finishing in 5^th place, Andrew Wansley ’10 and Joe Huston ’10 in 7^th place, and Sourabh Mishra ‘10 and Connor Beatty ’10 in 10^th. For individual speakers, Andrew Wansley placed 8^th.

The Dartmouth Winter Invitational

On January 11-12, the Dartmouth Parli team started off winter term by hosting the Dartmouth Winter Invitational tournament. Despite the fact that many schools were still on winter break, we had a great turnout with 46 teams from across the country making the trip up to Hanover. After 5 competitive in-rounds, and some very close decisions in out-rounds, in the end it was Aram Boghosian and Rob Silverblatt of Tufts defeating Chris Baia and Mike Childers of Johns Hopkins in the final round. Rocky Lotito of BU was the top speaker at the tournament.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this tournament a success. We hope that everyone who came enjoyed their time at Dartmouth and we hope to see you back for our tournament next year.

Full tournament results: http://apdaweb.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=489

Dartmouth Wins Tufts!

On November 9th and 10th, three Dartmouth teams participated in the Tufts University debate tournament. Tufts was a "Pro-Am" which means that each team was comprised of one varsity debater and one novice debater. This format gave our less seasoned team members some great experience and it also made for a very competitive tournament. The team of Andrew Wansley '10 and Mostafa Heddaya '11 emerged from the pack with a 4-1 record. The pair then won a string of impressive victories in out rounds to make it to the final round, where they defeated a very strong Yale team to take home first place. Andrew also earned the 3rd place varsity speaker award. With their victory, both Andrew and Mostafa have now qualified for Nationals, which takes place in the spring.

The Parliamentary Debate team is currently preparing to host the Dartmouth Winter Invitational tournament which will take place January 11-12.

Cornell Results

On November 2nd-3rd, four Dartmouth debaters made the long trip to Ithaca, NY to compete in the Cornell Parliamentary debate tournament. Both Dartmouth pairs got off to a great start, each going 3-0 in their rounds on Friday. Unfortunately, neither team could carry that success into day two and both finished with a 3-2 record. However, it should be noted that neither pair lost a round to a team that finished worse than 6^th overall. Additionally, Dartmouth debaters brought several awards back with them to Hanover. Connor Beatty and Ben Lo took home 8^th place team, with Connor and Ben finishing as the 7^th and 9^th speaker, respectively. Edward “E” McNeill also won the 3^rd place novice speaker award.