(Partial) Redemption
The district speech tournament was today. We pretty much dominated the field. Out of the eleven individual events, I'm pretty sure that we won first in something like 7 of them. I personally picked up first in Radio and Extemporaneous Speaking. While I think Wilson has good odds of picking up another trophy in the top five at the state tournament, I'm not making any predictions. Things are just too variable. On the other hand, I will say that if you plot a linear regression of our placement at state over my tenure at Wilson (2003: 5th; 2004: 4th, 2005: 2nd), we will do better than first place this year. Unfortunately correlation doesn't imply causation...
Congratulations!
(PS. Bring your trophy for a photo 1st period Monday so that we can get you guys on the cover of this issue)
Will the trophy even be engraved by then? I don't think so. We'll see if we can still get it, though.
Anyways, Adam, congratulations. And congrats to the whole team. Counting it up, it looks like we have 18 entries at State, including two Congress spots. We're pretty much gonna kick butt.
Picture canceled, the trophy isn't engraved (I just talked to Beth), but we will get you guys into the next issue.