The preliminary rounds for the Workshop tournament concluded today with a tough break to octafinals from a field of 100+ debaters. Throughout the day, the students debated rounds 3,4, and 5 and met with their labs in between rounds. After a tough five rounds and some surprises, 16 debaters remain to debate tomorrow morning at 10am. It took a 4-1 record with 85 adjusted speaker points and 142 total speaker points to advance. Four debaters with a 4-1 record did not clear.
The qualifiers for elimination rounds:
Adrienne Kearny (Meadows)
Arti Bhatia (Colleyville)
Cheryl Kaz (Newburgh)
Danielle Smogard (Southlake Carroll)
Grant Grosgenbauer (Crowley)
Khurram Ali (Colleyville)
Lauren Mahomes (Greenhill)
Louis Paine (Stoneman Douglas)
Paul Tyger (Strake Jesuit)
Rahim Sayani (Colleyville)
Ryan Bennett (Southlake Carroll)
Shadman Zaman (Sacred Heart)
Todd Liipfert (Strake Jesuit)
Tyler Cook (Salado)
Vivian Ho (Marcus)
William Hix (Grapevine)
The consensus among all of the staff is that every debater we've seen has drastically improved since first arriving, so while only 16 debaters advanced to elimination rounds, every student will be advancing to elimination rounds throughout the next school year.
Congratulations to all!
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