Kalispell Invitational, December 8-9, 2017

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What a weekend!

We met up at the train station around 8:30 and spent the next hour and a half waiting for a delayed train and practicing our pieces.




Eventually the train arrived and overnight we traveled across Washington, Idaho and Montana before arriving in Whitefish, Montana around 7:30AM.



Eventually we made our way to some delicious breakfast



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Thanks to the hotel getting us in hours earlier than expected, we got time for naps in before heading to lunch at a Kalispell institution; Norm's News. 




Competition  began with round 1 at 2pm and Round 4 ending at 10pm. What a long day!



After round 5 the next morning, we waited for the semi-finals breaks to post.

Semi-Finalists:
POI: Monica Winn, Jacob Talsmat, Caleb Hernandez
DI: Monica Winn
Informative: Malene Garcia

Both Ford Powers and Caleb Hernandez in Duo and Eric Harrod in Original Oratory were very close to breaking into Semi Final rounds.


Finalist:
POI: Monica Winn

 Both Monica (DI) and Malene (informative)  were in 9th place, narrowly missing out on finals.



Our goal for the tournament was to end up with more than 0 sweeps points (earned for semi-finalists and finalists) and we ended up with 8 sweeps points. Between that and the amount of growth we saw in our team, this tournament can be considered a success.

 Also, when points were entered-Saige Johnson and Nathaly Posada-Mendoza advanced from the rank of Honor to the rank of Excellence in the National Speech and Debate Association.

After awards and a great dinner in Kalispell, we took the long train ride home arriving around 5:45 am.

Good night everyone.

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