NC-17 debate; The Exalted High Emperor O'C; The Forensicon

There seems to be a rather persistent problem of multiple people from single teams registering for Bump. The first time this happened, I was told about it by the school that did it, and action on my part was easy. Then, while sitting around meditating about the meaning of life and what America will be like in 2014 during the Palin Administration, I took a break and peaked at the schools listed and, well, there were other duplications. There seems to be a bunch of students who are of little faith when it comes to their coaches, and who feel a need to back up the coachean registration with a studential registration. Grrrrrr. I will be asking CP to add an age-confirmation button to the site. If you are under 18, please go view disney.com and leave tournament registration to those mature enough to handle it. Then again, it is not only those of the underage persuasion who have been misguidedly stirring up the Bumpsian embers. We will also put in a button that sends people 18 and over to view disney.com. This will reduce registrants to a more manageable number. Maybe what we need is face recognition software. Or a fingerprint scan. DNA testing? The moral sense test? I dunno. We need something. Anyhow, there are still about a dozen un-double-booked varsity slots available. Get ‘em while they’re hot. Get ‘em a couple of times, if you want to drive me crazy.

In other news, I see that O’C is now an officer of the NDCA. This is like the supreme court telling Dick Cheney to take all the executive privilege he wants, there’s plenty to go around. For those who are unaware of what is actually happening here, this is O’C’s far from covert attempt to take over all of debate so that he can 1) take its picture, and 2) give it a trophy. Good gravy!

I did dangle the idea of The Forensicon in front of him, speaking of which, and his reaction—wide eyes, foaming mouth, an unstoppable urge to buy another gross of trophies—was predictable. The Forensicon (we’ve already got a name for it, which as you linguistics experts know is 99% of its reality) is our attempt to put together some sort of speech-debate all-in-one hoo-ha according to some of the suggestions posted in the comments over the last few days. I haven’t looked at the suggested models in any depth yet, but think of a sort of bicathlon with extemp and LD, or maybe a tricathlon with some impromptu thrown in (at least as a consolation), and for that matter, make it a tetracathlon with a PF round (unless the word tetracathlon is already taken by the international tropical fish Olympics people). Hoo-ha indeed. We might actually get some traction on this baby. I’ve already hired Matt T to stop all the rounds at random. It’s the least I could do.