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We are the Brown Debating Union, Brown's premiere debate team since 1824. Here you'll find news, info on upcoming tournaments and events, as well as handy debating resources.
If you're on campus and wish to find us, our weekly General Meetings are in Wilson Hall 309, Mondays at 8pm.
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The BDU
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4/9/2011: Swarthmore, BU
Jean McCabe '13 placed 5th novice speaker and 2nd novice team at Swarthmore 2011.
At Boston University in March, Jean also placed 10th novice speaker.
4/9/2011: Nationals, RIUDL touranment
This year Brown sent two teams to APDA Nationals at West Point Academy. Yvonne Yu '13 and Allegra Pincus '11 finished with a strong 3-3 record. Joe Rosner '12 and Sam Sanders '13 finished with a 4-2 record, narrowly missing the octofinals break on speaker points. They were 20th team in the strongest field in the nation, with almost 80 teams competing. A great finish to a successful year!
In other news, the BDU co-hosted the first Rhode Island Urband Debate League-Brown Debating Union hybrid tournament on May 1st. Brown debaters were randomly paired with RIUDL highschoolers to debate for tshirts and glory. Congrats to BDU debaters Maya Bretzius and Allegra Pincus for advancing to finals with their partners, Meg O'Garr and Kevin Blais of Lasalle Academy!
3/13/2011: Qualified for Nationals! Williams, Uconn, and Brandeis
Brandeis, March 12th: Maya Bretzius '12 and Hans Gao '14 went 4-1, and Mike Wagman '12 and Lydia Halpern '12 were also 4-1 andbroke to quarter finals, in a field of 58 teams. Jean McCabe '14 and her partner Sammy Floyd (Smith) placed second novice team, with Jean finishing as 3rd novice speaker and Young Seol 5th novice speaker.
University of Connecticut, Feb. 26th: Brown seized the day at UConn: Yvonne Yu '13 and Alex Self (Brandeis) broke to quarters, and Sam Sanders and Joe Rosner advanced to Semis. This also gave Sam her qualification for APDA Nationals 2011!
Additionally, both Brown novice teams, Hans Gao/Alexis Diplas and Young Seol/Haakim Nainar, broke straight to novice finals! Speaker awards included: Joe Rosner, 10th varsity speaker, Yvonne Yu 8th varsity, Sam Sanders 5th varsity, Alexi 8th novice speaker, and Young 6th novice.
Williams College, February 12th: Allegra Pincus '11 and Josh Zagorsky '11 (Harvard) broke to quarters, and Joe Rosner '12 and Bennett Ferris '13 also broke to quarters. This gave Joe Rosner the final point he needed to qualify for Nationals in April.
Congrats to all!
2/8/2011: Wintry Results
Those following the BDU Twitter may have heard about the many awards earned by BDU since December. We apologize for not updating the main site over break. For those averse to Twitterverse, here are our updates once more:
Providence College (2/8/2011): Of 51 teams, Maya Bretzius '12 and Alexi Diplas went 4-1, and Sam Sanders '13 and Joe Rosner '12 were 5-0 in preliminaries, the top seed, and finished as 3rd team in Semi-finals. Jean McCabe '14 won 6th Novice Speaker and Joe Rosner earned 4th Varsity Speaker. Finally, Sam Sanders victoriously took home the Top Varsity Speaker award!
Bates College (1/22/2011): Jean McCabe placed 10th Novice Speaker.
Dartmouth (1/15/2011): Sam Sanders '13 and Pat Andriola (Tufts) finished as 3rd team.
Middlebury (1/8/2011): Sam Sanders '13 lassoed 4th Varsity Speaker and placed 9th varsity team with Harvard's Erica Brandt.
Fordham (11/20/2010): Peter Kentros '14 wrangled up 4th Novice Speaker.
11/14/2010: Syracuse Tournament:
After a shenanigan-filled drive to upstate NY, all three Brown teams attending Syracuse broke to out-rounds: The Brown/Brandeis hybrid of Sam Sanders '13 and Russell Leibowitz (Brandeis '14) were 7th team; Lydia Halpern '12 and Joe Rosner '12 placed 6th team, and novices Jean McCabe '14 and Alexis Diplas '14 were 4th novice team overall. Also, Sam Sanders took home 4th Varsity Speaker, and Jean was 7th Novice Speaker.
11/7/2010: Northeastern University Pro-Amateur Tournament:
This weekend, out of 99 teams, Brown's own Maya Bretzius '12 and Gillian Michaelson '14 compiled an impressive 4-1 record, and broke to partial Octo-finals, placing 12th team overall.
10/3/2010: Boston University Novice:
Of 134 teams, four Brown teams compiled 3-1 records! Hans Gao/Macon McLean, Julien Angel/Young Seol, Alexi Diplas/Jesse Miller, and Greg Cohan/Adrienne Tran. Additionally, Alexi Diplas was 2nd Speaker (of 268 competitors)! Congrats to all the brownies who debated and judged!
9/26/2010: Columbia Tournament:
Lucas Li '11 and Josh Zagorsky (Harvard '11) placed 6th team out of 74. Also noteworthy was Brown HW (Lydia Halpern '12 and Mike Wagman '12) going 3-2 in preliminaries.
9/18/2010: Smith Tournament:
Lucas Li '11 and his hybrid partner, Pat Andriola (Tufts '11) went 4-1 in prelims, and then advanced to Quarter finals, placing 7th (out of 55 teams).
Allegra Pincus '11 and Joe Rosner '12 went 4-1 in preliminaries, advancing to Quarters and then Semi-finals, finishing as 3rd team.
We're also happy to report that Allegra Pincus received 9th Varsity speaker (continuing her tradition of Speaker awards at Smith).