oklahoma DEBATE!
OU DEBATE 2013-2014
THE OU DEBATE TEAM HAD ALL 7 TEAMS THAT ATTENDED THE 2014 CEDA NATIONAL TOURNAMENT PARTICIPATE IN ELIMINATION ROUNDS.
in the 2014 CEDA National Tournament the team of Rashid Campbell and George Lee advanced to finals, losing to Towson Ameena Ruffin and Korey Johnson on a 7-4 decision.
Rashid won top Speaker at Georgia State and the NDT.
1st OU Debater to win Top Speaker of the National Debate Tournament.
AT the 2014 NDT George and Rashid were 8-0 and top seed after winning 23/24 ballots. They advanced to the Semi-Finals before losing to the eventual 2X Champions, Georgetown University Arsht and Markoff.
At CEDA Nationals the team of Robert Wyde and Chris Leonardi advanced to Semi-Finals before having to give the gavel to Rashid and George for the final round. OU Closes out one side of the Semi-Final bracket in a tournament with over 170 teams.
Rob and Chris also won 1st Place at the University of Central Oklahoma tournament.
The team of Jefferson Yahom and Jesse Robbins advanced to the Octo-Finals of the tournament (Sweet Sixteen) before losing to Wake Forest University. We had 3 of the sweet 16.
The team of Stormee Massey and Leigha Maddy advanced to the Double Octofinals of the tournament, losing to Towson University.
Stormee and Leigha also took first place at the University of Vermont tournament.
The team of Dominque Baker and Kaine Cherry advanced to the Double Octofinals of the CEDA National Championship tournament.
Dominque and Kaine also advanced to Octofinals of the NDT and won 1st Place at Wichita State University.
The team of Daniel Schexnayder and Kristiana Baez advanced to the Triple Octofinal debates.
The team of James Chiles and Garreth O’Brien advanced to the Triple Octofinal debates.
The team of Rob Wyde and Jon Langel won 1st at the UNLV and Wichita State University. (We closed out finals at Wichita State)
OU DEBATE ACCOMPLISHMENTS - 2003-2014!
We have had a team for 11 years.
In 2014 Rashid Campbell took top speaker of the NDT for the first time in school history.
OU Debate has won 4 of the 6 largest policy debate tournaments held in the United States over the past 6 years that included over 150 teams each time.
In all 11 of those years we have had a team in elimination rounds at the CEDA National Tournament.
In all 11 of those years we have qualified for the NDT!
In 10 of 11 years we have made it to elimination rounds at the NDT.
In 9 of 11 years we have finished in the top 5 of the CEDA/NDT National Sweepstakes Rankings!
In 8 years we have had a team in Semi-Finals or Finals of Junior Varsity or Novice Nationals.
We have won the CEDA National Tournament 4 of 11 years. Making it to finals 5 of the 11 years. The only school to Win 4 CEDA National Tournaments in the tournaments 27 year history! No other school has won 3. We have Won 4 of the last 8 years.
We have had a team advance to Semi-Finals of the NDT three times in the past 7 years.
In 2014 we cleared 3 Teams to elimination rounds of the NDT. This was the first time in school history we have qualified 3 teams to the NDT.
In 2006-7 the team of Conor Cleary and Blake Johnson won Harvard, Wake Forest, Northwestern, University of Central Oklahoma, UT Dallas and CEDA Nationals all in the same year. ONLY team ever. They also advanced to Semi-Finals of the NDT!
Oklahoma CJ was also invited to the Dartmouth Round Robin and Kentucky Round Robin in 2006-7.
Conor Cleary was Top Speaker at the 2007 Dartmouth Round Robin.
Oklahoma CJ was ranked #2 in the 1st Round at Large Rankings for the Copeland Award.
In 2007 and 2014 we were NDT Varsity National Sweepstakes Champions!
In 2009 and 2010 Nick Watts and RJ Giglio became the first team to win Back to Back CEDA National Championships.
In 2010-2011 Giglio and Watts were Top Seed at Wake (8-0), Finalists of Harvard, and Won Kentucky. Advancing to Quarterfinals of the NDT.
Oklahoma GW was also invited to the Dartmouth Round Robin in 2011 and the Kentucky Round Robin in 2009 and 2010.
Oklahoma GW was ranked #5 in the 1st Round at Large Rankings for the Copeland Award.
In 2011-2012 RJ Giglio and Chris Leonardi Won the CEDA National Tournament.
In 2011-2012 RJ Giglio and Chris Leonardi were also invited to both the Kentucky Round Robin and the Dartmouth Round Robin.
In 2013-2014 Chris Leonardi and Michael Masterson received a Kentucky Round Robin bid.
During the 2011-2012 Season RJ Giglio Received Top Speaker at Georgia State, Harvard and Texas.
In 6 of 11 years we have received a 1st Round at Large Bid to the NDT!
We have amassed over 800 trophies and awards during our 11 year period!
And best of all, in 10 years we have traveled over 140 different OU Students to compete in competitive college debate. In debate speak, thats a lot........
WE ARE ALSO KNOWN AS THE SHANNON SELF POLICY DEBATE TEAM. WE GIVE MUCH THANKS TO THE McCLENDON’S AND THE HESTER’S IN HELPING MAKE DEBATE A PERMANENT FIXTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL ENDOWMENTS.
WE ARE ALSO GRATEFUL TO THE ADKISSON FAMILY: ADAM, SAM AND MONA FOR ALL OF THEIR SUPPORT IN MAKING SURE WE HAD DEBATE AT OKLAHOMA!
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1st Speaker at the 2014 NDT!
unknown blogger ribbie:
With three teams qualifying for the tournament, team Oklahoma dominated in the preliminary rounds. The tandem of Rashid Campbell and George Lee went 8-0 in prelims, actually beating the eventual champs, Georgetown AM, in Round 8. Rashid Campbell went on to win the top speaker award of the tournament and earned a perfect score of 30 points on three of the 24 ballots awarded during prelims. Campbell and his partner, George Lee, advanced to the semifinal round. By the way, a ballot is the judge’s scorecard of the debate. There are three judges in each of the prelim rounds. Campbell and Lee won 23 of 24 ballots in their first 8 rounds, a fairly spectacular feat. To put the perfect scores in perspective, each of the 160 debaters in the tournament receive speaker points from each of the three judges in each of the first 8 rounds. All told, there were approximately 3,840 scores given to all the competitors and there were only 7 perfect ones awarded. Vida Chiri from Liberty earned 2. She finished as the 27th best speaker and she and her partner advanced to doubles,the first break round after preliminaries. Eric Lanning of Houston received a perfect score too in one of his rounds. He was recognized as the 7th best speaker of the tournament. He and his partner advanced to the quarterfinals. And Ameena Ruffin from Towson, earned 1. She finished as the number 13 speaker and with her partner Korey Johnson, advanced to doubles. Impressively, Ruffin and Johnson won the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) national championship earlier in March becoming the first all-female African American team to do so in CEDA history.
Back to Oklahoma domination. Get this: they had three qualifying teams that won more debates in preliminary rounds than any other team – 18 and won 53 judges ballots. Harvard also had three teams in the tournament and won 16 debates in prelims and 46 ballots; Northwestern had 16 wins and 45 ballots. Georgetown qualified only two teams but won 12 rounds in prelims and 36 ballots. One could argue, and I will, that they were the most efficient and effective squad in the tournament with a team advancing to octofinals and another winning it all.
Actually here is the link. Many other great reads.
http://ribbie.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/georgetown-wins-the-ndt-again/
