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68th National Debate Tournament

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

March 28 – 31, 2014

 

Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase statutory and/or judicial restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: targeted killing; indefinite detention; offensive cyber operations; or introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities.

Winner: Georgetown University – Andrew Arsht & Andrew Markoff
Runner Up: University of Michigan – Ellis Allen & Alex Pappas

Top Speaker: Rashid Campbell – University of Oklahoma
Runner Up: Alex Miles – Northwestern University

Copeland Award: Northwestern University – Alex Miles & Arjun Vellayappan
Runner Up: Harvard University – Bradley Bolman & Michael Suo

Host: Brian Shah-Delong – Indiana University
Director: John Fritch – University of Northern Iowa

Ovid Davis Award: Jonathan Paul – Georgetown University
Lucy M. Keele Award for Excellence in Service: Sarah T. Partlow Lefevre
Ross K. Smith Coach of the Year Award: David Heidt – University of Michigan
James J. Unger Coaching Award: Dan Fitzmier – Northwestern University
George W. Ziegelmueller Award for Excellence in Education: Mike Davis – James Madison University

Overall Points Winner: George Mason University
Varsity Points Winner: University of Oklahoma
Community College Points Winner: Kansas City Kansas Community College

Elim Seeds

  1. Oklahoma: Rashid Campbell & George Lee (8-0, 23 ballots)
  2. Houston: Eric Lanning & Tanweer Rajwani (7-1, 22)
  3. Northwestern: Alex Miles & Arjun Vellayappan (7-1, 19)
  4. Rutgers – Newark: Chris Randall & Elijah Smith (7-1, 18)
  5. Georgetown: Andrew Arsht & Andrew Markoff (6-2, 18)
  6. Harvard: Bradley Bolman & Michael Suo (6-2, 18)
  7. Michigan: Ellis Allen & Alex Pappas (6-2, 18)
  8. Wake Forest: Joe LeDuc & Melvin Washington (6-2, 18)
  9. Wayne State: Michael Leap & Kristen Messina (6-2, 18)
  10. Georgetown: Tyler Engler & Andrew McCoy (6-2, 18)
  11. Michigan: Kevin Hirn & Joe Krakoff (6-2, 17)
  12. Towson: Korey Johnson & Ameena Ruffin (6-2, 16)
  13. Mary Washington: Colin McElhinny & Tom Pacheco (6-2, 16)
  14. Michigan State: Kaavya Ramesh & Tyler Thur (6-2, 14)
  15. Northwestern: Evan McCarty & Linda Pei (5-3, 17)
  16. Fresno State: Sierra Holley & Candis Tate (5-3, 17)
  1. Kansas: Nick Khatri & Addison Schile (5-3, 17)
  2. Iowa: Liam Hancock & Sharon Kann (5-3, 17)
  3. Kansas: Chris Birzer & Melanie Campbell (5-3, 16)
  4. Oklahoma: Chris Leonardi & Michael Masterson (5-3, 16)
  5. Wake Forest: Richard Min & Lee Quinn (5-3, 15)
  6. Oklahoma: Dominique Baker & Kaine Cherry (5-3, 14)
  7. West Georgia: Marquis Ard & Hakeem Muhammad (5-3, 14)
  8. Harvard: Anna Dimitrijevic & Daniel Taylor (5-3, 14)
  9. Michigan State: Jack Caporal & Quinn Zemel (5-3, 14)
  10. Harvard: David Herman & Yunhan Xu (5-3, 14)
  11. Liberty: Vida Chiri & Meagan Edwards (5-3, 13)
  12. Emory: Andrew Jones & Jason Sigalos (5-3, 13)
  13. Minnesota: Cody Crunkilton & Miranda Ehrlich (5-3, 13)
  14. Texas: Carl Fitz & Flynn Makuch (5-3, 11)

Speaker Awards

  1. Rashid Campbell – University of Oklahoma
  2. Alex Miles – Northwestern University
  3. Arjun Vellayappan – Northwestern University
  4. Andrew Arsht – Georgetown University
  5. Ellis Allen – University of Michigan
  6. Andrew Markoff – Georgetown University
  7. Eric Lanning – University of Houston
  8. Bradley Bolman – Harvard University
  9. George Lee – University of Oklahoma
  10. Melvin Washington – Wake Forest University
  11. Michael Suo – Harvard University
  12. Alex Pappas – University of Michigan
  13. Ameena Ruffin – Towson University
  14. Elijah Smith – Rutgers University, Newark
  15. Joe LeDuc – Wake Forest University
  16. Jason Sigalos – Emory University
  17. Melanie Campbell – University of Kansas
  18. Colin McElhinny – Mary Washington University
  19. Kaavya Ramesh – Michigan State University
  20. Marquis Ard – University of West Georgia

First Round At-Large Bids

  1. Northwestern: Alex Miles & Arjun Vellayappan (11)
  2. Harvard: Bradley Bolman & Michael Suo (24)
  3. Georgetown: Andrew Arsht & Andrew Markoff (38)
  4. Michigan: Ellis Allen & Alex Pappas (38)
  5. Rutgers – Newark: Chris Randall & Elijah Smith (60)
  6. Mary Washington: Colin McElhinny & Tom Pacheco (71)
  7. Wake Forest: Joe LeDuc & Melvin Washington (72)
  8. Wake Forest: Richard Min & Lee Quinn (104)
  9. Oklahoma: Rashid Campbell & George Lee (107)
  10. Towson: Korey Johnson & Ameena Ruffin (115)
  11. California – Berkeley: Srinidhi Muppalla & John Spurlock (117)
  12. Georgetown: Tyler Engler & Andrew McCoy (137)
  13. Harvard: Anna Dimitrijevic & Daniel Taylor (140)
  14. Michigan State: Kaavya Ramesh & Tyler Thur (151)
  15. West Georgia: Marquis Ard & Hakeem Muhammad (157)
  16. Kansas: Chris Birzer & Melanie Campbell (159)

Trivia

Starting this year, speaker awards were assigned by Z-Score—a metric which normalizes points by comparing the assigned value of a given round against the standard deviation of a judge’s average points. Since this measure already works to minimize the effects of outlier results, the tournament no longer dropped high-low results.

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