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University Daily Kansan, February 25, 1982
2 KU debate teams receive bids for nationals
BY VINCE IIESS Staff Reporter
two KU debate teams received automatic bids to the 1982 National Debate Tournament, making this the 10th consecutive year for the University of Kansas to have two teams at the tournament.
A 13-member committee selected the KU teams of Mark Gidley, Houston junior, and Zac Grant, Manhattan senior; and Paul Leader, Derby junior, and Rodger Payne, Sand Springs, Florida; and Ronald Brady, elected 16 teams from 1,800 eligible, Donn Parson, director of forensics, said yesterday.
"I WAS VERY pleased because there's very tough competition in the country, but both teams had very good years." Parson said.
"No matter where we went, they did
well. Sometimes a team does well only in one region. All of our 'games' are 'road games.'
The National Debate Tournament will be April 14 at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla.
Parson said the Heart of America tournament, Feb. 27-March 1, would attract most of the nation's leading teams and six-times have made reservations.
The Gidley-Grant and Leader-Payne teams will compete in the preliminary rounds, Parson said, but not in the finals because KU is hosting the tournament.
KU WILL HOST the District 9 tournament March 5-6 during which five teams will be selected to compete in the National Debate Tournament. Twenty teams from the six-state district will compete, Parson said.
Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana,
Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
The six states in the district are
No teams from KU will compete in the district tournament since KU already has the maximum two teams in the Debate Tournament. Parson said.
Schools may enter a maximum of two teams in the district tournament, but only those teams thought to have a chance to win are entered. Tournament are entered, Parson said.
Parson compared the selection of teams for the National Debate Tournament to the selection of teams for the NCAA Division I men's athletic Association basketball tournament.
THE TOP 60 debate teams in the nation participate in the National Debate Tournament, he said, and 16 of these receive automatic bids based on their records. District tournaments, such as the one at KU, determine 36
other participants, and the selection committee picks eight more teams.
The national topic for 1981-82 collegiate debate is, "Resolved: that the federal government should significantly curtail the powers of labor unions in the United States." Parson wrote that he felt "significantly," and which unions were included, made the topic more complex than it appeared.
Debaters research the topic from the time it is announced, usually in July, until they are finished competing, Parson said. Debate tournments take place from the last week of September to the first week of April.
THE ONLY OTHER year KU has had two automatic bids to the National Debate Tournament was 1976, Parson said. In the other years that KU has had two teams in the tournament, at least one of the teams qualified for the
tournament by winning in a district tournament.
Three of the KU debaters to compete in the National Debate Tournament this year have competed in previous tournaments, Parson said. Grant participated last year and in 1806, during the elimination rounds both times.
LEADER AND PAYNE were 69-32.
They won 16 awards.
The teams are the 41st and 42nd teams to represent KU at the National Debate Tournament, Parson said. No team has received an absent as many teams to the competition.
The Gidley-Grant team this year compiled a record of 82 wins and 17 losses. The duo won 24 awards as a team and for individual speaking.
Entry
Deadline
for the Recreation Services intramural racquetball mixed doubles tournament is 5:00 p.m. today in 208 Robinson.
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In the last 12 years at the National Debate Tournament, he said, KU earns placed first in 1976 and 1977; second in 1978 and 1979; and fifth in 1972, 1974, 1978 and 1981.
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