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Big Old Galumphing Bronx XLI Important News

Thanks to the success of our MJP program at Big Old Galumphing Bronx XL, we will be instituting a new MCP program at Big Old Galumphing Bronx XLI. Mutual Competitor Preferences should make the tournament more pleasant, although it may gum up the tab room a tad. But, they’re pretty gummed up already, so nobody will probably ever notice.

MCP will work as follows. Each competitor gets to rank every other competitor according to these criteria:
1. I can beat this sucker with my eyes closed
2. I’ll probably have to work a little bit and write cases before the tournament starts, but I can probably still beat this sucker if the judge isn’t paying too much attention
3. This person got qual’d at [some big tournament last week] and hasn’t had a bath in seven months, so I’d rather not share a room for the required 45 minutes, if you don’t mind
4. This person won TOC the last two years running
5. This person always runs bizarre kritiks
6 (Strike). This person always runs theory.

Tab will work diligently to line up all mutual competitor prefs as 1-1s or 2-2s, with occasional 3-3s. They may be forced to resort to 1-2s, but only if their teams are the 1s and your teams are the 2s. If they happen to go on a lunch break, they’ll let some Big Old Galumphing Bronx novice pair the rounds, which may mean that mutual strikes will be debating, but hey, it’s only for one round. Brackets will be used in the mailing to TOC, but not in the actual tournament. Speaker points will be consulted in situations where, if we erase them and write something else, we can make things work a little better. Ballots, if they contain embarrassing revelations, will be read at the new “You’re Not Going to Believe This” Award Ceremony, following the ritual bear-baiting demonstration during the round 11 runoff.

Please note that all Mutual Competitor Prefs must be submitted by the deadline three days after the tournament ends. Any earlier would be too confusing.

We look forward to bringing this exciting new aspect of LD to the debate community. We listen to you, we hear what you say, and we act. That’s just the way it is at Big Old Galumphing Bronx, and that’s just the way it ought to be. (And if this works out, start holding your breath now for a new feature at Big Old Galumphing Bronx XLII: MLP—Mutual Lunch Preferences!)