I hope Sean and others don't mind the crosspost. I get the sense that there aren't tons of people on the merger-l (due to traffic), and I think we can all find some importance to this topic. I know that there has been an explosion in CEDA speaker points over the last few years. Becky Galentine
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- Subject: Speaker Points
- From: Sean Harris <harrissr@whitman.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 12:28:44 -0600 (MDT)
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I was just looking at the new NDT home page at UNI, and I came across the prelim results of this year's NDT. When I was looking through Northwestern's points, I was amazed to see that Sean McCaffity was top speaker without getting a single 30. In fact, when I went through the entire thing, I only found one 30 in the whole tournament--Sonja Starr picked one up against Pitt. If I remember correctly, Biz Repko got 5 30's in prelims. It might have been 4. but I know she had quite a few. The kicker is that she only had 8 judges, whereas Sean had 24. Obviously there is a point difference between CEDA and NDT judges. It seems more relevant as we plan to debate the same topic, go to the same tournaments, etc. What do people think about this? Is this point difference just an aberration, or does it represent a problem for the next few years? Sean Harris Whitman College harrissr@whitman.edu
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