April 2, 2022 Tournament Results, Championship Topic & Announcements
On Saturday, April 2, 2022, the CT Middle School Debate League, sponsored by the Greenwich Branch of the English Speaking Union, held its third regular tournament of the 2021-22 season. 233 Middle School debaters from 20 schools combined into 25 Novice and 59 Open teams and debated the motion: This House would eliminate school gifted and talented programs.
An incredible 65 High School debaters and parents volunteered to judge!
Results may be accessed on Tabroom.com under Results for CTMSDLapr2.
Four Novice teams from Hamden Hall, Bethel, Western, and Seymour won all three of their rounds.
Eight Open teams from Middlebrook, Eastern, Smith, Amity and Irving A. Robbins won all three of their rounds.
It was a good day for Wilton’s Middlebrook Middle School…
The Middlebrook team of Hekle, Sullivan and Sullivan won the Final Round on Opposition over the Middlebrook team of Golodinski, Vijit Nair and Gettler on Proposition.
Lilah Gettler of Middlebrook was the highest scoring Open level speaker of the day.
Special thanks go to all of our coaches and judges, as well as Jennifer Hunt, Everett Rutan, Bruce Johnson, Rachel Zhang, Julia Shroers, Eira Prakash, Sachi Akmal, and Jake Cieniawa.
The CTMSDL’s Championship Tournament will be held virtually on May 7, 2022. The topic will be: This House, as the US Federal Government, would institute a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Here’s an article with a bibliography that provides some background information. As always, you are free to use this or not and research should not be limited to reading this article.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/basic-income.asp
There are two local tournaments coming up that are available to Middle Schoolers:
1. Westfield Academy’s Parli tournament on April 23-24 (contact annwalshhenderson@westfieldacademy.net for more information) and
2. Civics First Connecticut’s Policy tournament in May on “RESOLVED: The US should donate surplus COVID-19 vaccines to countries in need instead of stockpiling them.”
(See https://www.civicsfirstct.org/middle_school_debate for more information)
Here is a list of summer camp programs for Middle Schoolers that I am aware of. Please share with your debaters’ families.
Summer Debate Programs for Middle Schoolers 2022
Academy of Debate, Model UN & Leadership at Westfield Academy, Virtual
https://www.westfieldacademy.net/
Debate Camp Canada, Virtual and in-person in Greenwich, CT
The Debate Institute at Dartmouth, Parliamentary Workshop, Virtual
The Hive Summer Camp for Debate & Model United Nations, Format and August dates TBD
The Hotchkiss Summer Debate Program, In-person in Lakeville, CT
https://www.hotchkiss.org/our-school/summer-programs/speech-and-debate
Stanford National Forensic Institute (SNFI) Middle School Debate Camp, Virtual
Yale Summer Debate Program, We don’t know whether or not this camp will run this year
https://udl.sites.yale.edu/summerdebateprogram for entering 9th grade
Please contact me if you have any questions or feedback 🙂 Jen
Jen Posner
CT Middle School Debate League
03-984-4902