sour grapes and the final frontier

[Steven Donald <sd0924@broncho.ucok.edu>]

Well, the CFR topic is offically dead, and this will probrably (not 
making any promises) be my last post on the issue.  My question is this:  
how seriously did the topic committe consider 1)recency of topic, 2) 
interest by the community, as judged by the discussion on both 
listserves, 3) salience of issue to individuals, 4) topic ground?

I know that 4 of the 5 topics meet all of this criteria, but ummmmmm, 

SPACE??????? No one has said a SINGLE word about that on any listserves, 
since about a week after the topic paper was written, and that was over a 
month ago.  Also, it's more recent that campaign reform?  And it 
personally effects the debaters more than how our government is being run 
in what way? And there is better limits, counterplan ground, and disad 
debate on that topic than CFR?  Can you honestly think there is more 
interest by the community in that issue than CFR?---remember Matt's straw 
poll...it ranked close to last.

If the topic committee decided all of this through their own analysis, 
research, and personal opinions, I suppose that's fine, but how much did 
you pay attention to what people were saying about each topic on the 
listserves?

Frustrated and Confused,

Steven Donald
UCO Debate

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