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2013 Newsletter THE YALE DEBATE ASSOCIATION Spring 2013 Newsletter The YDA by the Numbers: Yale Debate Ranked #1 in the World It’s finally official - The Yale Debate Association (“YDA”) is the best debate team in the world. As part of 1 a record breaking year, not YDA’s World only did Yale win its fourth Ranking consecutive Club of the Year (“COTY”) award from the American Parliamentary De- bate Association (“APDA”), but it has become the first American team ever to be ranked first in the world since 4 the advent of the modern world rankings. (Harvard) ranked teams combined. Years in a Row as top US Team From August 24th to January Individual members of the YDA 13th, the YDA held the top spot in the were also greatly successful throughout world rankings, ahead of teams from the the year. The teams of Robert Colonel (SY University of Sydney and University of ‘13) and David Trinh (TD ‘12), Nick Oxford in second and third place respec- Cugini (CC ’13) and Kate Falkenstien (SY tively. The rankings, based on perfor- ‘12), Andrew Connery (PC ‘13) and Max mances by all Yale teams at a large num- Dovala (SM ‘13), and Zach Bakal (CC ‘14) 13 ber of tournaments, reflect the both the and Michael Barton (BK ‘14) were 2nd, Tournaments intensity and depth of talent at all levels 5th, 6th and 7th respectively in APDA’s Won of the YDA . Team of the Year (“TOTY”) rankings. Ad- ditionally, Cugini and Falkenstien made In addition to its internationally the finals of the APDA National Champi- recognized success, the YDA continued its onships, with Nate Blevins (PC ‘12) and run of unprecedented domestic domi- Ben Kornfeld (DC’ 13) making the semi- nance. Breaking its own record for total finals. Moreover, at the North American points, Yale won APDA’s coveted COTY Championships, Connery and Dovala award for the fourth year running, accu- 14 were semi-finalists. Top Speaker mulating more points than the second (Columbia), third (Brandeis), and fourth Awards Another Impressive Performance at APDA National Championships Yale saw unrivalled success at this year’s National Championships at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Yale set a record for total qualifica- 22 tions to compete this year, with an un- Debaters precedented 22 debaters qualifying Qualified for over the course of the season. This Nationals number constitutes a new APDA rec- ord, bettering Yale’s own mark of 21, set last season. At the tournament, Nick Cugini and Kate Falkenstien distin- guished themselves by reaching the finals of the tournament. Nate Blevins and Ben Kornfeld reached the semifi- nal stage, while the teams of Andrew Connery and Max Dovala, and Mi- chael Barton and Zach Bakal each reached deep elimination rounds. Kate 4 Falkenstien also had the distinction of APDA Nationals winning the coveted award for the Top Semi-Finalists Speaker at the tournament, while Ben tem. Both the quarter and semi-finals saw Kornfeld was ranked as the 4th speaker. matchups between Yale teams, with Con- In a tightly contested final round, nery and Dovala debating Blevins and Cugini and Falkenstien narrowly lost to Kornfeld in quarter-finals, and Blevins rivals from Harvard, opposing the pro- and Kornfeld going on to face Cugini and posal that the exclusionary rule ought to Falkenstien in the semis. be abolished and replaced by a tort sys- Among those Yale debaters who qualified for Nationals were four novices - an impressive achievement. These four novices constituted one 5 third of all novices to Top 20 Speakers qualify for Nationals na- at Nationals tionwide, and were more than half the total num- ber of debaters qualified for the championships by any other school. Yale Once Again Dominates Throughout APDA’s Season Throughout the year the YDA Colonel and Trinh finish 2nd, but Nick competes at more than 40 tournaments, Cugini and Kate Falkenstien, Andrew across the country and world. Domesti- Connery and Max Dovala, and Zach Bakal cally, the vast majority of these tourna- and Michael Barton finished 2nd, 5th, 6th ments are in the format of American Par- and 7th respectively, each making deep 4 liamentary debate, sanctioned by the elimination rounds at many tournaments. Of the Country’s American Parliamentary Debate Associa- Top 10 Teams tion. Throughout the year the YDA and its members compete at tournaments every weekend in an effort to qualify for Na- tionals and earn points towards APDA’s prestigious year end awards: Club of the Year, Team of the Year, Speaker of the Year (“SOTY”) and Novice of the Year (“NOTY”). As mentioned in the introduction, due to the depth and talent of the YDA, the COTY ‘race’ was, once again, not even close. Through the outstanding perfor- mances of every one of our members the 4 YDA accumulated not only more COTY Of the Country’s points than any school in the history of Top 10 Speakers APDA, but also more than those ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th combined. APDA also recognizes the perfor- mance of individual speakers through its Individual teams also performed SOTY awards. In this category too, Yale admirably. In an incredibly close TOTY shone. Robert Colonel finished the year race, Robert Colonel and David Trinh ac- ranked 4th, while Nick Cugini, David cumulated more points than any other Trinh and Kate Falkenstien finished 6th, team in previous APDA history. Unfortu- 7th and 8th, each winning the top speaker nately, so to did their rivals from Har- award at one or more tournaments. vard, surpassing Colonel and Trinh’s total on the last day of the season. Not only did Finally, our novices also per- formed admirably, winning top novice speaker awards at three tournaments 3x throughout the year. Eight novices fin- More Points ished in the top 41 of the NOTY rankings. than 2nd Place On top of all of that, our novices also saw significant success in varsity competition, with three novice-varsity partnerships winning tournaments outright. Success at the North American Debating Championships The North American Champi- onships (“NorthAms”) is a unique de- bate tournament that brings together schools from Canada and the USA in a 5 hybrid of Canadian and APDA styles. Teams Yale has traditionally been very domi- Advancing to nant at NorthAms, most recently win- Elimination ning the title in the years 2009 and Rounds 2011. Despite not winning outright, even this year the YDA outperformed all other schools at the tournament. Max Dovala and Andrew Connery ad- Colonel (SY’13) and David Trinh. Ben vanced the furthest of Yale’s teams, mak- Kornfeld and Nick Cuginimade it to the ing it to semifinals. Four other Yale teams octofinals stage. broke at the tournament, with Alyssa Kate Falkenstien was also the top Bilinski (CC ’13) and Kate Falkenstien speaker at the tournament, winning the who broke as the top seeded team for the award for two consecutive years. Other second year in a row, making it to quar- Yale debaters in the top 10 were Ben terfinals. Threre they were joined by Mi- Kornfeld, Andrew Connery, Max Dovala chael Barton and Zach Bakal and Robert 4 and Nick Cugini. Yale Teams in the Top 8 5 Of the Top 10 Speakers YDA Performs Admirably at the World Championships The World Universities Debating Kornfeld both broke to the Octofinal Championships (colloquially called stage. Unfortunately neither team ad- “Worlds”) is the most competitive and vanced further. Another Yale team, com- prestigious university debating tourna- prising Andrew Connery and Michael ment in the world. Historically, the YDA 2 has always done well - Yale was the first Teams in American School to win Worlds in 1990, Worlds Octo- and in 2006 was the first American Finals school to have a team in the finals of the competition in its modern format. In ad- dition to this, Yale debaters and alumni regularly feature in the elimination rounds of the championship. This year, 13 members of the YDA travelled to Manila, Philippines to com- Barton narrowly missed the break on the basis of speaker points. In addition 8502 to our debaters’ success, Anna Moore (SY’13) broke Miles to the as a judge. Phillipines With regard to indi- vidual speaker awards Yale once again showed its re- gional dominance, produc- ing 4 of the top 7 speakers from North America. pete in the latest edi- tion of the competi- tion - by far the larg- est delegation from any American school, and one of the largest 5 Consecutive delegations at the Years Breaking tournament. After nine grueling prelimi- Multiple Teams nary rounds, Kate at Worlds Falkenstien and Max Dovala, and Nate Blevins and Ben Yale Enthusiastically Forays into BP The Yale Debate Associa- tion prides itself over not only being the best debate team in America, but one of the best in the world. Yale’s excellent perfor- mance at Worlds does not tell the full story of our consistently ex- 1 cellent performance in the inter- Rank of Yale’s national sphere. Top Speaker at Every year, the YDA trav- BP Nationals els to the UK to participate in the Oxford and Cambridge IVs. At the Oxford IV, Nate Blevins and the only institution permitted to field two Ben Kornfeld advanced to semifinals, teams. while another Yale team comprising of Andrew Connery and Max Dovala ad- After the Round Robin stage, Ben Korn- vanced to quarterfinals. Nate Blevins was feld and Nick Cugini broke to finals as the also placed in the Top 10 speakers at the 2nd seed , while Kate Falkenstien and tournament. A week later, at the Cam- Max Dovala unfortunately missed out on bridge IV, the Yale teams of Kate Falken- speaker points.
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