At the Valley Center Debate Tournament on Oct. 22nd the Great Bend Debate team brought two debate teams and they both had winning records and one of the teams placed.
In the Open/Varsity Division, Michael Gieck and Mickie McNett, both second year debaters, placed 5th with a 4-1 win loss record and just 20 speaker points against 40 teams. “I think we did very well, we just need to work on eye contact and enunciation.”
In the Novice Division, Nathaniel Cheney and Spencer Johnson, both first year debaters, had a 3-2 win loss record with 21 speaker points against 86 teams. Cheney stated, “We walked in doing very well, we may have lost two rounds, but we still had a 3/2 win loss record which is a winning record against 86 teams. We did our best.”