Yeah, I compete and have leadership on the PF debate team right now. Compared to Trinity and Riverdale, we do better competitively, but we probably don’t have as many resources as them. Our school gives us a very limited budget to use for debate resources and tournaments, so we have one remote FYO who works as a debate coach and shows up to some tournaments. However, I don’t think she’s going to be here next year so that we can maximize our budget and go to more competitive major tournaments. Debate coaching isn’t really needed for us since our team is really large and we have dedicated leadership positions to maximize our prep and whatnot. We do better than Riverdale and Trinity even without a coach (I believe they both have a coach, almost every debate team has a coach).
Right now we go to a lot of tournaments, but there are several that are out of reach because of travel (Blake, Barkley, Longhorn Classic, etc.). We go to every major tournament on the Northeast except Florida Blue Key (Yale, NYC Invitational, Princeton, Scarsdale, Ridge, Lexington, UPenn, Harvard) and also State and National Tournaments. We send around 4-5 teams to the TOC every year as well.
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