CONSTRUCTIVE POINTS<br><br>1. Semester Summary<br>2. Upcoming Tournaments<br>3. CUSIDnet<br><br>1.&nbsp; CUDS had a very successful fall semester, with amazing results in the tournaments that we have attended.&nbsp; Garnett Genuis and Padraic Ryan did very well at Yale, finishing as quarter-finalists, additionally Padraic placed third overall in the speaker scores as the top Canadian speaker.&nbsp; In the Oxford Inter-varsity Tournament in England, Padraic Ryan and&nbsp;
Kirsten Odynski were the top Canadian team.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At&nbsp; Chancellors, Garnett placed as the second public speaker, and Blair Stein came fifth in public speaking at Guindon.&nbsp; CUDS once again hosted the Xerxes High School Debating Tournament.&nbsp; For the very first time this year, however, Xerxes was run in British Parliamentary Style.&nbsp;&nbsp; The&nbsp; tournament was a success with over forty debaters participating from schools across eastern&nbsp; Ontario.
<br><br>CUDS will be sending three teams to the World Debating Championships, hosted this year by the University of British Columbia.&nbsp; We are looking forward to beating our success last year, in which we placed sixteenth out of over three hundred fifty teams.
<br><br>2.&nbsp; There several tournaments coming up that people are able to sign up.&nbsp; Winter Carnival, the North American Championships, and Leger are all coming up soon and if you want to participate, please express your interest on CUSIDnet or email 
<a href="mailto:exec@carletondebate.org">exec@carletondebate.org</a>.<br><br>3.&nbsp; To sign up on CUSIDnet, go to <a href="http://www.cusid.ca/community">www.cusid.ca/community</a>, register, and then send 'Graham Pressey' a message or email 
<a href="mailto:vpcom@carletondebate.org">vpcom@carletondebate.org</a> to be granted access into the Carleton forum.&nbsp; There is more information there on how to sign up for tournaments, how to debate, and&nbsp; interesting discussion on a variety of contentious and interesting topics.
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