ATS Debate Tournament: Member Discussion

Really looking forward to following this tournament!
Good luck to everyone!

Originally posted by schrodingers dog
Not me, it's not like they have to break the MemoryShock thesaurusesses, rectionaries (tm pending), reverse non sequitur decoders, and sentence reducers out of their oubliette.

Meh ...

Que?

11 of 24 confirmed in a little over 3 hours.

Organizers are currently working on selecting judges and topics. We've got some GREAT topics lined up that cover Above Top Secret from end to end!

can't wait, this is going to be fun, haven't had a good debate (win or lose I will definitely have a great time) in years...

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Fighting Concerned Posts...

Originally posted by OzWeatherman

Originally posted by schrodingers dog
Not me, it's not like they have to break the MemoryShock thesaurusesses, rectionaries (tm pending), reverse non sequitur decoders, and sentence reducers out of their oubliette.

Meh ...

Que?

I took the liberty of transforming S Dog's post into a translatable structure.

Rectionaries could be a contraction of rectory and dictionary which is kind of strange in a priest/alter boy sort of way.

Woohoo I made it!!! Oh I cant wait to see what my topic is....a little scared lol but this will be fun

One member has had to regrettably pull from the tournament, so I've extended an invite to the first member on our waiting list. Our final list will be updated once all are confirmed! If you are a member on the waiting list, please keep checking back in case a seat becomes available to you!

Color me intrigued.

I would like to take a swing at this.

Originally posted by RobertAntonWeishaupt
Color me intrigued.

I would like to take a swing at this.

Unless I have missed something the sign up period for taking part as a debater or Tournament judge has already passed . You can always follow the debates by reading them as the tournament goes on thou .

COUNT ME IN!

High time for me to express what I really have hidden inside my over sized cranium.

Break out the Mental Octagon for me.

(edit...)

Just saw that spaces are filled?

Siiiiiigh

How can I be here every day and always miss this.... Anyway, if a space opens I would really like IN if possible





[edit on 18-11-2009 by mopusvindictus]

I,m in baby, I'm in.

reply to post by chissler


phwew! I don't have to debate Semper first round.

It would be a shame to get my butt..er I mean defeat him in the first round.

I am in too...

Thanks
B???

Originally posted by chissler

Our Debaters...

(Bolding indicates a first round bye)

1) semperfortis
2) americandingbat
3) schrodingers dog
4) nyk537
5) whatukno
6) neformore
7) souls
8) GUNSINWAR
9) OzWeatherman
10) wormwood13
11) AllSeeingI
12) vkey08
13) Snarf
14) hangedman13
15) serbsta
16) dizziedame
17) ecoparity
18) mblahnikluver
19) stereovoyaged
20) Agent-ATS
21) hyperion.martin
22) eazyriderl_l
23) Kryties
24) Phedreus

1st Round will have 6 byes and 10 debates with 20 participants.

2nd Round will have 8 debates with 16 participants.

3rd Round will have 4 debates with 8 participants.

4th Round will have 2 debates with 4 participants.

5th Round will have 1 debate with 2 participants and a Champion will be declared!

Hey chissler,

I just did a quick count and I think you have mismathematized (tm pending) the first round, as right now there are 9 matches with 18 participants. That would give you 9 winners + 6 byes = 15 which obviously doesn't work.

So I think you might have to include souls and GUNS as byes so that there are 8 "bye" winners meeting those 8 with byes for a total of 16 in the second round. Either that or add two more contestants to the first round from the waiting list, so that there are 10 winners meeting the six who have 1st round byes.

That would be a First Class Protocol.


[edit on 18 Nov 2009 by schrodingers dog]

reply to post by schrodingers dog



I agree

I dont think that the intial way would work

Can I be the odd man out?

reply to post by schrodingers dog


Aye, good catch.

Bad news is, I made a mistake with the numbers. Good news is.. the number supposed to be 26! So two more members will be contacted shortly to notify them of their acceptance into the tournament. With 26, my numbers work.

Our Debaters...

(Bolding indicates a first round bye)
(* indicates a confirmed participant)

1) semperfortis *
2) americandingbat *
3) schrodingers dog *
4) nyk537 *
5) whatukno *
6) neformore *
7) souls *
8) GUNSINWAR *
9) OzWeatherman *
10) wormwood13 *
11) AllSeeingI *
12) vkey08 *
13) Snarf *
14) hangedman13 *
15) serbsta *
16) dizziedame *
17) ecoparity *
18) mblahnikluver *
19) stereovoyaged *
20) hyperion.martin *
21) nikiano *
22) MissMegs
23) Frankidealist35
24) Selahobed
25) Parallex
26) snusfanatic

(Waiting List...)

1) Izarith



A u2u is pending for the final 6 members that we are looking for confirmation from. These members have 24 hours to respond. The final 2 members on our waiting list will be contacted if a seat opens. If we require more members to be added, the window to declare yourself will re-open. Members who've declared themselves in posts above will not be considered as those were made when the window was closed. However, if they repost their intention to participate they will be added.

I'll keep you all updated.

Still hoping for a Monday start.


[edit on 11-20-2009 by chissler]

[edit on 11-20-2009 by chissler]

reply to post by schrodingers dog


Dear Mr. Dog,

The trademark of the term "mismathematized (tm pending)" has been reviewed by the "Internationalistic Committee of Wordage."

While we would like to accept the term we can't decide if it should be categorized as a schrodingeristic verb form, or a dogistic one.

Any suggestification you can offer to help resolve this conflictation of considerationalisms would be a received as a highly goodified contributational effort, on your part, and would go far towards adding your term into our "Big Book of Words" (we still can't imaginate a good term for that)

PS. Your check bounced.