New York City Urban Debate League

Middle School Debate Tournament #2 Results (11/10/18)

<p><span>On Saturday we hosted NYC Middle School Tournament #2 with 539 debaters, 45 schools, and 189 volunteers!&nbsp;</span><span>2 tournament locations! 5 divisions of debate! 3 debate events! 11 Debate Topics including: prisoners right to vote, standardized testing, nature versus nurture, Open Borders, Colony on the Moon, Tax on Meat Sales, Social Media, Physical Activity, Video Games and Single Gender Schools…. Wow!!!! Thank you all for attending</span><span>! Thank you to our host schools – Hunters Point Community Middle School and Junior High School 278 Marine Park. And thank you all for dedicating your day to debate -&nbsp;<span>189 volunteers, coaches, parents, judges, and staff dedicated their weekend to support 539 debaters in public speaking, reading, writing, debating, note taking, research, current events, civics&nbsp; – and every other academic skill and subject.</span></span></p><!–more–><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Novice Parliamentary Top Team Awards</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span><span><img src=https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3457829/Novice%20Parli%20Top%20Teams%20II.png” alt=”Novice Parli Top Teams II” width=”719″ style=”width: 719px;”></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Novice Parliamentary Top Speaker Awards</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span><span><img src=”https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3457829/Novice%20Parli%20Top%20Speakers%20II.png” alt=”Novice Parli Top Speakers II” width=”711″ style=”width: 711px;”></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Open Parliamentary Top Team Awards</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span><span><img src=”https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3457829/Varsity%20Parli%20Top%20Teams%20III.png” alt=”Varsity Parli Top Teams III” width=”712″ style=”width: 712px;”></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Open&nbsp;Parliamentary&nbsp;Top Speaker Awards</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span><span><img src=”https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3457829/Varsity%20Parli%20Top%20Speakers%20II.png” alt=”Varsity Parli Top Speakers II” width=”692″ style=”width: 692px;”></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Varsity&nbsp;Public Forum Debate Top Team Awards</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span><span><img src=”https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3457829/Varsity%20PF%20Top%20Teams.png” alt=”Varsity PF Top Teams” width=”710″ style=”width: 710px;”></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Varsity Public Forum Top Speaker Awards</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span><span><img src=”https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3457829/Varsity%20PF%20Top%20Speakers.png” alt=”Varsity PF Top Speakers” width=”709″ style=”width: 709px;”></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Novice Public Forum Debate Top Team Awards</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span><span><img src=”https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3457829/Novice%20PF%20Team%20awards%20III.png” alt=”Novice PF Team awards III” width=”694″ style=”width: 694px;”></span></span></p><p><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p><p><strong>Novice Public Forum Top Speaker Awards</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span><span><img src=”https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3457829/Novice%20PFF%20Top%20Speakers.png” alt=”Novice PFF Top Speakers” width=”675″ style=”width: 675px;”></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>”