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The following judges will be on call for IE Quarters on Sunday morning.

102     ALJ     Danielle         Lubin
104     ALJ     Cara    Scaturo
120     HEN     Dave    Erenberg
162     LOY     Steve   Moss
171     BKT     Edward  O’Hare
183     NAZ     Melinda         Penn-Fagan
206     HAR     Elena   Cortez
208     HAR     Beatrice        Cabrerra
214     SA      Daniel  Sapir
217     SA      Wade    Grande
223     SH      Kristin         Livingstone
254             Julia   Caine
255             Josh    Isaacs
256             Zachary         Harrell
257             Jeff    Ruffles-Johnson
258             Ashley  Bradfield
259             Eric    Leist
260             Alex    Wyckoff
261             Brittney Walker
262             Ryne    Duchmann
265             Caitlin Lowans
266     SCD     Reid    Bagwell
279     MF      Andrew  Monteleone
280     SA      Bill    O’Dell
282     MF      Lauren  Lyngholm
284     MF      Tom     Bond
285     MF      Mohammed        Ghanem
289     BKC     Laura   Saltman
290     BKC     Anne    Gaudet
294     BXP     Tanya   Cowell
296     STY     Buddy   Haardt
297     STY     Will    Scott
306     CSN     Michaela        Hall
308     CRY     Robert  Coven
312     NK      Amanda  Parker
313     NK      Mel     Albert
315     SJN     David   Risley
316     SJN     Jackie  Newton
323     FOR     Chris   Bratt
325     HAR     Nathan  Frailing
330     LOY     Melanie         Baker
331     BXS     Debbie  Feng
354     RGS     Diane   Giannetto
355     RGS     Joe     Giannetto
356     RGS     Claudia         DiFabrizio
386     ALJ     Edison  Sanon
391             Hayley  Andrews

Postings for IE and Congress Prelims

Check your judging assignments for prelim rounds on the Speech and Congress Judging Chart.

There will be no changes to the schedule for Friday and Saturday prelim rounds.

On Sunday, Novice LD and Public Forum will break to a partial double-octas round at 8:00 AM.   A revised debate schedule will be released at some point once we have a few last details sorted out, but hopefully everything will be finished by 3:30 for awards.

Extemp Prep will be in Fayerweather, a change from last year.

Also note that we do not have the Auditorium room  where folks would hang out in Lerner Hall until Sunday.  We’re not happy about this either; we thought we had it reserved a few days after last year’s tournament, but apparently not.   On Saturday therefore we’re going to be hanging out in all kinds of random spaces throughout Lerner.  The School, where many VLD and PFD rounds are happening, will have a cafeteria space for hanging out.

The Congress legislation packet is here.  The docket will be set by the chambers.

Please be advised because of some, ah, adventures in room reservations, and an unexpectedly large field in Public Forum Debate, there will be schedule changes this week from the schedule posted in the invitation.  We will not be changing the times for Friday registration, however; your travel plans will not need to be altered as a result.  It is possible, however, that the debate final rounds will occur after awards; not before.  I hate having to do that, but the other option is waitlisting folks who are currently in the tournament.

The good news is that even though Columbia is a standing TOC semis bid in PFD, we have 76 teams and seven states entered in PF.  So, unless a sudden case of plague takes out 1/3rd of our entry, that qualifies us for a quarterfinals bid according to TOC guidelines.

Also, we have 100 slots in Varsity LD and 60 slots in Novice LD.  Currently there are 42 people on the waitlist for Varsity LD and 55 for Novice LD.  These numbers mean if you haven’t yet registered in these divisions, there is unfortunately zero chance of you getting into this year’s Columbia tournament.  There is likewise no chance of anyone getting a 6th entry, as we first take entries who have not gotten their initial 5 into the tournament.  No amount of begging in Palmer, Menick or Vaughan’s direction will change these facts.  Would that we had infinite rooms, but we do not.

The tournament invitation to the 2009 Columbia Invitational is now posted under “Invitation” above.  Online registration is now open.  Please join us for the 2009 tournament!  If you have any questions, use the contact form above.

For your practice or complaining purposes, the extemp questions asked during the tournament are posted below.

Columbia Extemp Questions

Thank you to everyone who made the 8th Columbia Invitational a terrific time. Lots of people thank us, the tournament staff, when the tournament goes well, but our efforts are only one part of the equation. The efforts of the competitors and judges in traveling to the tournament, picking up ballots, walking all the way to Teacher’s College, and above all speaking, performing and debating are what make a tournament truly great. Congrats to all, and we hope to see you next year!

Full Results

Round is at 8 in the morning.

Berkeley Carroll AM
Berkeley Carroll IB
Bronx Science AK
Bronx Science DM
Bronx Science EG
Bronx Science SS
Bronx Science ST
Bronx Science VS
Hendrick Hudson PL
Hunter College AG
Hunter College AP
Hunter College ML
Jericho BJ
Jericho PK
Lake Braddock AR
Lexington GS
Lexington JZ
Millburn MH
Niskayuna AM
Niskayuna AW
Niskayuna DV
Niskayuna SD
Niskayuna SS
Niskayuna ST
Regis Coulter
Sacred Heart SZ
Scarsdale ET
Scarsdale MS
Stuyvesant EL
Stuyvesant GS
Stuyvesant JD
Stuyvesant TS

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