Tuna, Why are rochester's points from HWS not counted? Ken R. Johnson Director of Forensics English Department University of Rochester Office: 585-273-5223 Cell: 585-781-0040 Debate Blog: http://universityofrochesterdebate.wordpress.com "Like Us" on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rochesterdebate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred C Snider" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 9:33:09 PM Subject: NEUDC Sweepstakes updated 9 February 2013 The sweepstakes have changed as Colgate has asked to no longer be listed. NEUDC SWEEPSTAKES 2012-13 As of 9 February 2013 School HWS Bing Roch Yale Vt Brand Ki Place Adj Total Cornell 44 52 88 61 84 0 0 1 285 329 Bates 0 0 0 38 87 47 64 2 236 236 Vermont 0 76 76 36 0 30 43 3 231 261 King’s 0 78 0 21 14 13 0 4 126 126 St John’s 0 38 0 26 22 35 31 5 121 153 Bard 0 0 32 11 34 0 30 6 107 107 Adelphi 0 0 0 26 0 16 41 7 83 83 HWS 0 17 25 27 0 0 11 8 80 80 Rochester 15 17 0 25 11 0 0 9 53 68 Binghamton 0 0 24 0 12 0 0 10 36 36 Ithaca 0 6 0 0 0 8 18 11 32 32 Cape Cod 0 0 0 0 7 17 0 12 24 24 Oneonta 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 13 16 16 RIT 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 14 13 13 # teams 36 44 60 152 80 56 44 Yellow tournaments are the counters. When you host one of the counter tournaments you get to count the next biggest tournament. If there is a tie ion terms of size, you get to count your highest score. NORTHEAST UNIVERSITIES DEBATE SWEEPSTAKES 2012-2013 BECOMING A PART OF THE SWEEPSTAKES: * SCHOOLS ASK TO BE LISTED. * YOU SELF-IDENTIFY TO BE PART OF THE SWEEPSTAKES. TOURNAMENTS AND POINTS: MUST BE A WORLDS FORMAT TOURNAMENT. CAN COUNT THE BEST FOUR RESULTS FROM THE LARGEST SIX TOURNAMENTS IN THE NORTHEAST (NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK). THIS MAY INCLUDE USU IF IT IS HELD IN THE NORTHEAST. IT DOES COUNT YALE BUT NOT TOURNAMENTS IN CANADA. IF WORLDS IS HELD IN THE NORTHEAST IT WILL COUNT. IF TOURNAMENTS IN THE TOP SIX HAVE THE SAME NUMBER OF TEAMS THE SCHOOL WILL RECEIVE THE SCORE FROM THE TOURNAMENT WHERE THEY SCORED HIGHER. * BEST FOUR TEAMS COUNT FOR SWEEPSTAKES. * 1 ST =3 POINTS, 2 ND =2 POINTS, 3 RD =1 POINT, 4 TH =0 POINTS. * COUNT THE LAST SIX ROUNDS. * 6 FOR ADVANCING IN ELIMS. * 10 FIRST PLACE, 7 SECOND PLACE. * HOSTING TEAMS CAN DEBATE BUT NOT GET POINTS, UNLESS HOSTING USU NATIONALS. IF A TEAM HOSTS A TOURNAMENT, THEY CAN COUNT THE NEXT BIGGEST TOURNAMENT SO EVERYONE GETS SIX TOURNAMENTS TO COUNT. * COUNT TOURNAMENTS DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR SEPT 1 UNTIL MAY 1. * HYBRIDS CAN DEBATE BUT NOT GET POINTS. AWARDS * AWARDS GO TO THE TOP FIVE SCHOOLS * THE NUMBER ONE SCHOOL HAS TO BUY THE AWARDS. * AWARDS MUST BE ENGRAVED WITH SCHOOL NAMES. * THE AWARDS FOR 1-5 MUST BE THE SAME SIZE. * MUST BE DELIVERED BY SEPTEMBER 15 OF FOLLOWING YEAR OR AT FIRST REGIONAL TOURNAMENT. -- Alfred C. Snider aka Tuna Edwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics, University of Vermont Huber House, 475 Main Street, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405 USA Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ Global Debate Blog http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com Debate Central http://debate.uvm.edu 802-656-0097 office; 802-238-8345 mobile;802-656-4275 fax @asnider Twitter Please realize that I am often on the road with travels all over the world. I may not be able to respond to you immediately. See my calendar at http://debate.uvm.edu/tunacalendar.html