Debate Results - Georgia State

Cross examination or policy debate is conducted by two person teams debating a single topic all year against other two person teams. In each round one team is Negative (Neg) and one team is Affirmative (Aff). Usually 16 or 32 teams break from the preliminary rounds (8 rounds in college, 5-6 in high school) and debate in finals or elimination rounds. It is like the NCAA basketball tournament brackets. Style points are awarded to each speaker in every preliminary round with 30 being the maximum and 25 being on the low side. Awards for speaker positions are given along with the awards for finishing place. Multiple teams from a school are distinguished by initials composed of the first letter of their last names. For example, debaters Mr. Smith and Ms. Jones from Michigan State University would be listed as "MSU SJ".



Semi final rounds:
Northwestern defeats Michigan State EL
Emory defeats Kansas

Finals:
Emory defeats Northwestern


The "L" in the MSU EL team was 10th speaker.
MSU EL takes 3rd place.

A very good start to the year. I will post how the other MSU teams did when I find out.

Congratulations "L", aka the Boy.