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[Unico]

Jakesully8D, on 29 December 2011 - 04:21 PM, said:

Austin and Paige are easily the best team in the state right now - however last year eastern-Idaho teams had a tendency to do very well at the few west-side tournaments our region attended. At state, mainly because of judging, a lot of very, very good teams didn't do very well. However, the team that won I felt did deserve to win (Johnston/Wittrock; Highland).
Patriot Policy - You're from centennial right? were you the dude with the headphones/rainbow beanie or the other one?

Neither of those. I didnt make it to state because a certain hilcrest judge dropped me at districts after a team conceded in round. Derp

[liampirate]

Im not from Idaho, nor do I know anything about Idaho debate, but Feldman/Nan and Austin/Paige both were substantial threats at Whitman, and so was the other Timberline team, who I thought was very good.

[Tinkenator]

PatriotPolicy13, on 30 December 2011 - 02:25 AM, said:

Nan and Feldman are good. But, if they ever hit paige and austin with an even somewhat legit judge, they would lose.

That would be a debate I'd like to see.

[LilMax]

This debate is over, Paige and Austin have done better in the national circuit/bid tournaments than any other Idaho team has done. That accomplishment stomps any local tournament you guys feel is important, because they are more competitive.

[Jakesully8D]

I agree with LilMax, Jeremy and Dallas are good, but I've debated them every year and just following the tournaments Paige and Austin are the best - they might have trouble picking up ballots from lay judges at state (but don't we all? and thats arbitrary shit anyways) but like it was said earlier, any decent judge would pick them up without hesitation. PatriotPolicy/Zach - well I don't know you then, sorry, not all Hillcrest judges are ex-policy debaters. I don't see how you're going to snub east-Idaho teams if you haven't even debated at the tournaments we attend? The east/west division shouldn't even be a problem because our circuits are so small that we can't help but at least try and get along.

[Jive Turkey]

liampirate, on 30 December 2011 - 09:11 PM, said:

Im not from Idaho, nor do I know anything about Idaho debate, but Feldman/Nan and Austin/Paige both were substantial threats at Whitman, and so was the other Timberline team, who I thought was very good.

That was a really good first round at whitman, I enjoyed debating you guys

[Parsons152]

Our coach has been too concerned about other teams on our squad having their feelings hurt to let us do anything in Boise/TOC in the past. Word on the street is that our coach is also retiring, so we might get a taste of the Boise circuit next year, which would be intense. Given the choice we'd probably go to a TOC tournament over Boise though.
What's the Boise circuit like? I have a friend who just moved out there, he says it's way more progressive based, and he does LD.

[Unico]

Parsons152, on 06 February 2012 - 06:53 PM, said:

Our coach has been too concerned about other teams on our squad having their feelings hurt to let us do anything in Boise/TOC in the past. Word on the street is that our coach is also retiring, so we might get a taste of the Boise circuit next year, which would be intense. Given the choice we'd probably go to a TOC tournament over Boise though.
What's the Boise circuit like? I have a friend who just moved out there, he says it's way more progressive based, and he does LD.

I would definitely go to a national tournament over any Boise tournament.
The experience you would have at a boise tournament depends largely on two facts. Which tournament you go to, and which judges you get.
If you get good judges then you'll likely have some kritikal debates. Centennial, Capital, Eagle, Timberline, Mtn. View and Boise are for the most part fairly k happy.
But you'll only have those depends if you get good judges. As for tournaments, i would reccomend you go to either Rocky Mountain or the Eagle Mash-Up.

[Parsons152]

Unico, on 06 February 2012 - 08:27 PM, said:

I would definitely go to a national tournament over any Boise tournament.
The experience you would have at a boise tournament depends largely on two facts. Which tournament you go to, and which judges you get.
If you get good judges then you'll likely have some kritikal debates. Centennial, Capital, Eagle, Timberline, Mtn. View and Boise are for the most part fairly k happy.
But you'll only have those depends if you get good judges. As for tournaments, i would reccomend you go to either Rocky Mountain or the Eagle Mash-Up.

Eagle would be a great tournament to go to. Either that or BSU is what I was thinking.

Either way, coach has to stop buying goddamn public forum evidence for that to happen...

[Unico]

Parsons152, on 07 February 2012 - 08:22 PM, said:

Eagle would be a great tournament to go to. Either that or BSU is what I was thinking.

BSU is kind of a sketchy tournament. There is no finals round. You have i think 4 prelims, then if you do well, you break to gold/silver round. And there are 3 gold/silver rounds.