APDA Nationals 2010:
Parallel Universe Nationals

For the fourth time in nine years (previously 2002, 2003, and 2006), I have created a 64-team bracket to represent what APDA Nationals would look like if it resembled the single-elimination NCAA Basketball Tournament and were based on TOTY rankings.

This year, I fielded brackets from attendees at the Rutgers debate tournament, and then solicited results from the APDA Forum community. I'm presenting the results in three brackets below, the first being a composite, the second being only Rutgers attendees, and the third being only those who didn't attend Rutgers.

Upsets will be highlighted in green, ties in yellow (ties will be broken on who advances furthest in the next round after the tie, where applicable).

COMPOSITE BRACKET
(8 complete and 18 partial brackets submitted)

North - Boston, MA
Final Four
Central - New York City, NY
1
16		 Harvard A (Bean/Early) 24
NU B (Rosinski/Kolakoski) 0		 Harv A 24 Harv A 22 Harv A 7 Harv A 2

MIT A 2
JHU A
JHU A 4
JHU A 5
Harv B 0
Harv B 6
Harv B 8
Harvard B (Loomis/Rubenstein) 9
Williams A (Ferguson/Aftab) 0
 1
16
8
9		 Dartmouth B (Agarwal/Gadson) 8
Yale F (Brown/Kornfeld) 16		 Yale F 0
WM B 0
W&M B (Herdman/Rosenberg) 6
Bates A (Mahmud/Etnire) 3
 8
9
4
13		 BU B (Chiu/McDonough) 11
Rutgers A (Bomeisl/Reiss) 13		 Rut A 2 Chi A 1
Dart A 1
Dart A 6
Dartmouth A (Wansley/Huston) 6
Brandeis B (Green-Lowe/Saffir) 3
 4
13
5
12		 Chicago A (NBlaser/TBlaser) 23
Harvard D (Hopkin/Chaevitch) 1		 Chi A 19
Yale C 0
Yale C (Falkenstien/Reed) 8
Chicago C (Wyatt/Spera) 1
 5
12
2
15		 Yale A (Ali/May) 24
Hopkins C (Boyle/Ali) 0		 Yale A 22 Yale A 11 Yale A 7
JHU A 6
JHU A 6
JHU A 9
Hopkins A (Suri/Withall) 9
Maryland B (Hall/Yanik) 0
 2
15
7
10		 NU A (Crocker/Woods) 23
NYU A (Thambidurai/See) 1		 NU A 2
Ford A 0
Fordham A (Morrissey/Shaughnessy) 5
Yale H (Trinh/Kryger) 4
 7
10
3
14		 BU A (Taubes/Campbell) 24
Princeton C (Lewis/Gecker) 0		 BU A 24 BU A 11
Pton A 3
Pton A 9
Princeton A (Rauch/Siddique) 9
Columbia B (Gabriel/McHale) 0
 3
14
6
11		 West Point A (Van Kopp/Lupo) 21
BU C (Meyer/Liberman) 3		 WP A 0
Yale I 0
Yale E (Bilinski/Colonel) 3
Yale I (Shenoy/Moody) 6
 6
11
1
16		 MIT A (Goldstein/Clark-Adams) 12
Syracuse A (Gasda/Strom-Webber) 0		 MIT A 12 MIT A 12 MIT A 9 MIT A 6
GW A 0
GW A 6
GW A 8
GW A 13
GW A (Buckwald/Robinson) 13
West Point B (Hall/Amoroso) 0
 1
16
8
9		 UVa A (Gallagher/Henning) 8
Yale G (Chen/Zelinsky) 4		 UVa A 0
Harv C 0
Harvard C (King/Wu) 8
Duke B (Byrne/Lewin) 5
 8
9
4
13		 AU A (Hayes/Storer) 12
Chicago D (Balocca/Ramakrishnan) 0		 AU A 10 AU A 0
Yale B 3
Yale B 10
Yale B (Lucarelli/Cugini) 13
Yale J (Briggs/Kalla) 0
 4
13
5
12		 Yale D (Blevins/El-Khatib) 7
Columbia A (Kahn/Bagwell) 5		 Yale D 0
Swat A 2
Swat A (Stoller/Sawyer) 9
Brown A (Halpern/Wagman) 4
 5
12
2
15		 Maryland A (Katz/O'Reilly) 12
Yale K (Magdzik/Potter) 0		 MD A 12 MD A 9 MD A 3
Amh A 5
Amh A 6
Amh A 12
Amherst A (Lamboy/Zhou) 13
NYU B (Raskin/French) 0
 2
15
7
10		 Duke A (Mulhern/Chandran) 2
GW B (Fogarty/Doyle) 10		 GW B 0
Chi B 1
Princeton B (Doshi/Anton) 4
Chicago B (Field/Murphy) 9
 7
10
3
14		 Brandeis A (Husick/Bouchard) 10
Stanford A (DeStein/Boltizar) 2		 Bran A 10 Bran A 2
JHU B 4
JHU B 9
Hopkins B (Qureshi/Iyer) 13
Brandeis C (Fradkin/Datloff) 0
 3
14
6
11		 MIT B (Karim/McKee) 7
AU B (DeLevie-Orey/Caravias) 5		 MIT B 0
WM A 4
W&M A (Stern/Hynes) 13
Fordham B (McElroy/Klap) 0
 6
11
West - Chicago, IL
Final Four
 South - Washington, DC


RUTGERS ATTENDEE BRACKET
(3 complete and 18 partial brackets submitted)

North - Boston, MA
Final Four
Central - New York City, NY
1
16		 Harvard A (Bean/Early) 19
NU B (Rosinski/Kolakoski) 0		 Harv A 19 Harv A 17 Harv A 7 Harv A 2

Harv A 0

Pton A
Pton A 2
Pton A 2
Harv B 0
Harv B 2
Harv B 4
Harvard B (Loomis/Rubenstein) 4
Williams A (Ferguson/Aftab) 0
 1
16
8
9		 Dartmouth B (Agarwal/Gadson) 5
Yale F (Brown/Kornfeld) 14		 Yale F 0
WM B 0
W&M B (Herdman/Rosenberg) 4
Bates A (Mahmud/Etnire) 0
 8
9
4
13		 BU B (Chiu/McDonough) 8
Rutgers A (Bomeisl/Reiss) 11		 Rut A 2 Chi A 1
Dart A 1
Dart A 3
Dartmouth A (Wansley/Huston) 3
Brandeis B (Green-Lowe/Saffir) 1
 4
13
5
12		 Chicago A (NBlaser/TBlaser) 19
Harvard D (Hopkin/Chaevitch) 0		 Chi A 15
Yale C 0
Yale C (Falkenstien/Reed) 3
Chicago C (Wyatt/Spera) 1
 5
12
2
15		 Yale A (Ali/May) 19
Hopkins C (Boyle/Ali) 0		  Yale A 17 Yale A 8 BU A 4
Pton A 2
JHU A 2
JHU A 4
Hopkins A (Suri/Withall) 4
Maryland B (Hall/Yanik) 0
 2
15
7
10		 NU A (Crocker/Woods) 18
NYU A (Thambidurai/See) 1		 NU A 2
Tie 0
Fordham A (Morrissey/Shaughnessy) 2
Yale H (Trinh/Kryger) 2
 7
10
3
14		 BU A (Taubes/Campbell) 19
Princeton C (Lewis/Gecker) 0		 BU A 19 BU A 9
Pton A 2
Pton A 4
Princeton A (Rauch/Siddique) 4
Columbia B (Gabriel/McHale) 0
 3
14
6
11		 West Point A (Van Kopp/Lupo) 17
BU C (Meyer/Liberman) 2		 WP A 0
Yale I 0
Yale E (Bilinski/Colonel) 1
Yale I (Shenoy/Moody) 3
 6
11
1
16		 MIT A (Goldstein/Clark-Adams) 7
Syracuse A (Gasda/Strom-Webber) 0		 MIT A 7 MIT A 7 MIT A 4 MIT A 1
GW A 0
GW A 4
GW A 5
GW A 8
GW A (Buckwald/Robinson) 8
West Point B (Hall/Amoroso) 0
 1
16
8
9		 UVa A (Gallagher/Henning) 6
Yale G (Chen/Zelinsky) 1		 UVa A 0
Harv C 0
Harvard C (King/Wu) 5
Duke B (Byrne/Lewin) 3
 8
9
4
13		 AU A (Hayes/Storer) 7
Chicago D (Balocca/Ramakrishnan) 0		 AU A 6 AU A 0
Yale B 1
Yale B 6
Yale B (Lucarelli/Cugini) 8
Yale J (Briggs/Kalla) 0
 4
13
5
12		 Yale D (Blevins/El-Khatib) 3
Columbia A (Kahn/Bagwell) 4		 Col A 1
Swat A 1
Swat A (Stoller/Sawyer) 6
Brown A (Halpern/Wagman) 2
 5
12
2
15		 Maryland A (Katz/O'Reilly) 7
Yale K (Magdzik/Potter) 0		 MD A 7 MD A 6 MD A 3
Amh A 3
Amh A 3
Amh A 7
Amherst A (Lamboy/Zhou) 8
NYU B (Raskin/French) 0
 2
15
7
10		 Duke A (Mulhern/Chandran) 1
GW B (Fogarty/Doyle) 6		 GW B 0
Chi B 1
Princeton B (Doshi/Anton) 2
Chicago B (Field/Murphy) 6
 7
10
3
14		 Brandeis A (Husick/Bouchard) 5
Stanford A (DeStein/Boltizar) 2		 Bran A 5 Bran A 0
JHU B 2
JHU B 6
Hopkins B (Qureshi/Iyer) 8
Brandeis C (Fradkin/Datloff) 0
 3
14
6
11		 MIT B (Karim/McKee) 2
AU B (DeLevie-Orey/Caravias) 5		 AU B 0
WM A 2
W&M A (Stern/Hynes) 8
Fordham B (McElroy/Klap) 0
 6
11
West - Chicago, IL
Final Four
 South - Washington, DC


NON-RUTGERS ATTENDEE BRACKET
(5 complete brackets submitted)

North - Boston, MA
Final Four
 Central - New York City, NY
1
16		 Harvard A (Bean/Early) 5
NU B (Rosinski/Kolakoski) 0		 Harv A 5 Harv A 5 Harv A 0 Yale A 0

MIT A 2
JHU A
JHU A 3
JHU A 4
Harv B 0
Harv B 4
Harv B 4
Harvard B (Loomis/Rubenstein) 5
Williams A (Ferguson/Aftab) 0
 1
16
8
9		 Dartmouth B (Agarwal/Gadson) 3
Yale F (Brown/Kornfeld) 2		 Dart B 0
Bate A 1
W&M B (Herdman/Rosenberg) 2
Bates A (Mahmud/Etnire) 3
 8
9
4
13		 BU B (Chiu/McDonough) 3
Rutgers A (Bomeisl/Reiss) 2		 BU B 1 Chi A 0
Dart A 0
Dart A 3
Dartmouth A (Wansley/Huston) 3
Brandeis B (Green-Lowe/Saffir) 2
 4
13
5
12		 Chicago A (NBlaser/TBlaser) 4
Harvard D (Hopkin/Chaevitch) 1		 Chi A 4
Yale C 0
Yale C (Falkenstien/Reed) 5
Chicago C (Wyatt/Spera) 0
 5
12
2
15		 Yale A (Ali/May) 5
Hopkins C (Boyle/Ali) 0		  Yale A 5 Yale A 3 Yale A 3
JHU A 4
JHU A 4
JHU A 5
Hopkins A (Suri/Withall) 5
Maryland B (Hall/Yanik) 0
 2
15
7
10		 NU A (Crocker/Woods) 5
NYU A (Thambidurai/See) 0		 NU A 0
Ford A 0
Fordham A (Morrissey/Shaughnessy) 3
Yale H (Trinh/Kryger) 2
 7
10
3
14		 BU A (Taubes/Campbell) 5
Princeton C (Lewis/Gecker) 0		 BU A 5 BU A 2
Pton A 1
Pton A 5
Princeton A (Rauch/Siddique) 5
Columbia B (Gabriel/McHale) 0
 3
14
6
11		 West Point A (Van Kopp/Lupo) 4
BU C (Meyer/Liberman) 1		 WP A 0
Yale I 0
Yale E (Bilinski/Colonel) 2
Yale I (Shenoy/Moody) 3
 6
11
1
16		 MIT A (Goldstein/Clark-Adams) 5
Syracuse A (Gasda/Strom-Webber) 0		 MIT A 5 MIT A 5 MIT A 5 MIT A 5
Tie 0
GW A 2
GW A 3
GW A 5
GW A (Buckwald/Robinson) 5
West Point B (Hall/Amoroso) 0
 1
16
8
9		 UVa A (Gallagher/Henning) 2
Yale G (Chen/Zelinsky) 3		 Yale G 0
Harv C 0
Harvard C (King/Wu) 3
Duke B (Byrne/Lewin) 2
 8
9
4
13		 AU A (Hayes/Storer) 5
Chicago D (Balocca/Ramakrishnan) 0		 AU A 4 AU A 0
Yale B 2
Yale B 4
Yale B (Lucarelli/Cugini) 5
Yale J (Briggs/Kalla) 0
 4
13
5
12		 Yale D (Blevins/El-Khatib) 4
Columbia A (Kahn/Bagwell) 1		 Yale D 1
Swat A 1
Swat A (Stoller/Sawyer) 3
Brown A (Halpern/Wagman) 2
 5
12
2
15		 Maryland A (Katz/O'Reilly) 5
Yale K (Magdzik/Potter) 0		 MD A 5 MD A 3 MD A 0
Amh A 2
Amh A 3
Amh A 5
Amherst A (Lamboy/Zhou) 5
NYU B (Raskin/French) 0
 2
15
7
10		 Duke A (Mulhern/Chandran) 1
GW B (Fogarty/Doyle) 4		 GW B 0
Chi B 0
Princeton B (Doshi/Anton) 2
Chicago B (Field/Murphy) 3
 7
10
3
14		 Brandeis A (Husick/Bouchard) 5
Stanford A (DeStein/Boltizar) 0		 Bran A 5 Bran A 2
JHU B 2
JHU B 3
Hopkins B (Qureshi/Iyer) 5
Brandeis C (Fradkin/Datloff) 0
 3
14
6
11		 MIT B (Karim/McKee) 5
AU B (DeLevie-Orey/Caravias) 0		 MIT B 0
WM A 2
W&M A (Stern/Hynes) 5
Fordham B (McElroy/Klap) 0
 6
11
West - Chicago, IL
Final Four
 South - Washington, DC

 

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