Hey!

Hope everybody had a great break! we are meeting tomorrow in room 2030- be there.

Also, there is a debate coming up, so if you want to go post to the Facebook group!

Remember meeting this wednesday after school in room 2002!

Also, the next debate is on November 17 for those of you who think you might want to go, start thinking about it early

Novice scrimmage

If you intend on attending the Novice scrimmage please email staples debate@gmail.com, or post to the Facebook group. Thanks!

But Wait! There's More!

The CDA has some things to prepare for debate, some of which can be considered useful, although we will cover a lot of these things in meetings:
http://ctdebate.org/PDFs/Preparing%20for%20Extemporaneous%20Debate.pdf

If you plan on attending the novice scrimmage and do or do not have a partner, feel free to email
staplesdebate@gmail.com
Remember that registration closes in two weeks.
And..... another rather important bit of information, we ask that you see if your parents can be judges for debates (don't worry, they won't be judging you) seeing as we need one parent judge for every two teams (it's required by the CDA), so have your parents check their schedules.

Thanks for checking the blog!

Some important stuff to know

Before you check if you can attend debates, please know they are always on saturdays, and more importantly, start at 9am (you should be there a before 9 though, or your partner will probably have a heart attack) and end at about 5pm. In short- Long days, fun days, but long nonetheless

Here's a schedule of all of this year's debates (with resolved locations)

Novice Scrimmage

St. Luke's High School

October 13

AITE

November 17

New Canaan High School

December 8 or 15

Joel Barlow High School

January 12

Fairfield Warde High School

February 2 or 9

Greenwich High School

February 9
Snow Makeup Date (still at Greenwich High School)

March 2

Darien High School

March 16 or 23
State Finals

Wilton High School

Remember: Registration for the novice scrimmage closes in two weeks!
Who will you go with?

It takes place at St Luke's school in New Canaan on September 28th 

Dusting off the cobwebs on the blog! 

The blog will have all of the emails archived as well as some helpful debate links posted as I find them, so please check it!

Next meeting Next Wednesday 

September 28; tentative Bertucci's dinner

September 29; novice scrimmage

October 13: first CDA debate

October 30: bake sale

We are looking for a new TA this year, so if you have any suggestions, please speak up or to the teacher. We are starting recruiting, so please tell others about the team, since it is important to get new debaters in for the novice scrimmage.

CDA Debate Results Feb. 4

The February 4th debate was Staples' smallest debate so far this year, but successful none the less.  Sage Vouse and Ken Asada went 3-0 and were the 5th place novice team at the entire tournament!  In the varsity division, Ryan and Mark went 2-1.  The topic was Resolved: The UN should accept Palestine as a member state.  Overall results can be found here.