Criminal Masterminds

Behind the scenes

I think I'll start a new life,
I think I'll start it over, where no one knows my name,
I'll get out of California, I'm tired of the weather,
I think I'll get a lover and fly em out to Spain...
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Warning: This is pretty much all about Debate, so if you're not interested, move along. For everyone else, I tend to be long winded. I'm sorry.

Our darling Sara has been sick for the past two days, which is perfectly okay, but that left me partner-less for the Debate championship tonight. After convincing Sara at 2:50 there was no way she could come in and Debate after sleeping for fourteen consecutive hours (and then sleeping four more hours after that), I started my job as the official tab room tracker.

I was going to judge a round or two and keep track of ballots as they came in since both Open and Novice Public Forum were power ranked. Great in theory; everything set and then we're just waiting; and waiting and waiting for DGF to show up to start the meet. In the end, we have to sub in judges (a newbie and Borash) for the DGF judges and both of the Grand Rapids teams earned an automatic win and the DGF teams earned a loss. That's fine and dandy, not that bad; except we had double booked rooms, so I got to run around finding open rooms to use while making sure I didn't lose anyone in the process.

I met the older Korynta today; she was a judge for DGF. The other judge for DGF was a really cute guy whose first name I don't know, but dark hair, eye brow piercing; good looking to say the least. Back to Korynta: interesting. Not what I pictured, but I can see it now.

After Round 1 things were considerably smoother, ballots came in relatively well and there wasn't any more judge problems. It worked out about as perfectly as one could hope for; what worked out even better was the 25 point win Deebs gave to Luke and his bombastic partner round one.

I judged Round 4 which was a first; it was interesting to hear the argument from both sides. Obviously neither of the teams knew I knew the topic, but it was nice to see how other teams Debate, especially in Novice.

Rianna, darling, I talked to Pritschet about you judging at the Forest Lake tournament and he liked the sound of that. So, we'll talk about it this coming weekend, and I should probably mention it to Deebs to make sure it will happen. We'll probably be taking two vehicles, so if we go down the night before, Deebs and I for sure will come and get you in the morning.

Qualley judged for the first time. That was great. I love Qualley; she's awesome. I might not love AP Spanish every day, but I do really like her. Plus, her with Pritschet and Deebs; oh wow. We handed her a dictionary when she went off to judge; she turned a nice shade of red and glared at the two of them laughing in Deebs's room. I really hope we need another driver for Nat Quals; if she could come, that was be a lot of fun.

In the end, I came to the conclusion that next year without someone there to make sure that every little bit of their ideas are covered, life is going to suck for them.

Plus, I briefly met the infamous Piff today. Wow, does he look like a Freeman... Can't really say much else about him because I talked with him and Deebs for about three minutes before I was torn away by Pritschet with some mini-crisis.

Oh, and Kubas and Garrett took first, as expected, and Sonya took first in LD with Brian taking 3rd. I don't have much else to add. That's kind of a brief rundown of my night.

posted by Kara @ 10:26 PM