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Mark your calendars – our next meeting is on the books.  The MDTA will hold its spring MDTA General Membership meeting on May 5th, 2012 at Midland Hills Country Club.  The meeting will start at 1:00 PM and is scheduled to last a few hours.  We will have details agenda information coming out in the next couple of weeks.  But the high level agenda will include:

- Outreach Program
- Public Forum State Tournament Rules & Process
- MSHSL State Tournament Rules Review (Judge selection, tabbing procedure, more)
- Novice Case Limits & Novice Evidence Packet for Policy Debate
- 2012 MDTA Jamboree

All MDTA Members are welcome to attend.  If you are not a member, you can come to the meeting and become a member on the spot.

Once we have the documents ready for each area of interest, I’ll start a thread in the forums about each agenda item as we might be able to accomplish some pre-discussion.

And here are the MDTA Unofficial results for the 2011-2012 season.  I will be posting the top 5 students along with the top 5 schools for each.  Public Forum, Classic and LD results are complete and ready for community review.

In addition to the results, I will be posting the MS Excel document used to calculate all of the points.  This is for community review because it’s very possible that someones name is misspelled or I mis-calculated something along the way.  A quick explanation of the spreadsheet.  It has four sheets.  RawData is where all the magic is.  It lists students name and schools.  If a tournament offered breaks beyond Quarters, than we mark those tournaments as special otherwise, the top 8 get a point for breaking.  Than one additional point is awarded for each break round won or at a tournament where to breaks exist, a single point awarded to the winner.  We then have Top 8/Breaks bonus, Elim Bonus (each win or first place) to get total bonus points.  Lastly, there is a Y/N used to determine if we count that record for a school awards, remembering only the top 2 entries are counted.

So without further text here goes:

Public Forum Top 5

Public Forum Team

Excel Spreadsheet - PF MDTA Cup 2011

Lincoln-Douglas Top 5

Lincoln-Douglas Team

Excel Spreadsheet - LD MDTA Cup 2011

Classic Top 5

Classic Team

Excel Spreadsheet - Classic MDTA Cup 2011

What is the value of a college education?  We may think we already know the answer, but what we know for sure is the 26 Public Forum teams sure had plenty of arguments on both sides for the second year of the Public Forum State Tournament.

Adithya Balaji and Tony Bigelow of Eastview High School defeated Eagan’s Maggie Parra and David Wickard on a 5-2 decision to take home the championship.  Balaji and Bigelow’s argument of the benefits and costs of a college education followed nine rounds of debate over two days.

Sharing in a weekend of success was the semi-finalists teams from Champlin Park and Blaine High School.  Rounding out Quarter-Finalists were teams from St. Paul Academy, Wazyata and Eagan.  Congrats to all students who participated.

Full Results – Elim Bracket