#Bids season

[potomacdebateacademy]

MAJOR WINS AT CSU AND BRONX!

This past weekend, our students competed both virtually at Cal State Fullerton and in-person at Bronx in New York City!

Congratulations to our middle and high school teams for a phenomenal showing at both tournaments! 

First, some important shoutouts:

CSU: CONGRATS to Roselyn B. & Tiffany T. for WINNING the entire middle school division and Sanvi J. & Anya K. for WINNING the entire high school novice division! 

BRONX: CONGRATS to Christopher T. & Cynthea W., Jonathan F. & Alex L., and Andy D. & Leon W. for earning THREE GOLD BIDS to the TOC 2023!

We couldn't be more proud of all of your hard work and dedication to debating this weekend! GREAT WORK! 

Now, onto the rest of the results!

High School Varsity:

Semifinals (Top 4) AND securing a SILVER BID to TOC 2023: Grace L. & Katherine X.

Quarterfinals (Top 8): Digonto C. & Dhira V.

Doubles (Top 64): Zayn B. & Lucas K., Preston L. & Zayd P., Sophie H. & Catherine Y.

Speaker Awards: 5th: Ashley H. 9th: Nethra N.

High School Novice: Champions (1st place): Sanvi J. & Anya K.

Speaker Awards: 3rd: Anya K. 5th: Manvitha K. 6th: Sanvi J.

Middle School Open: Champions (1st place): Roselyn B. & Tiffany T.

Semifinals (Top 4): Anika B. & Kaylynn Y.

Quarterfinals (Top 8): Daven K. & Karthik U., Zara D. & Aanya R., Diya B. & Ayan M.

In fact, FIVE of the EIGHT teams that appeared in Quarterfinals were POTOMAC teams! Great job everyone!

Octafinals (Top 16): Alex R. & Caroline Z.

Speaker Awards: 1st: Diya B. 2nd: Ayan M. 4th: Roselyn B. 5th: Karthik U. 6th: Daven K. 9th: Anika B.

WOW! SIX of the TOP TEN SPEAKERS were Potomac students! Excellent work!

Finally, last but certainly not least, Bronx results:

High School Varsity:

Quarterfinals (Top 8) AND securing a GOLD BID to TOC 2023! Christopher T. & Cynthea W., Jonathan F. & Alex L.

Octofinals (Top 16) AND securing a GOLD BID to TOC 2023! Andy D. & Leon W.

NICE WORK TEAM! NEXT UP: NADC OPAL CUP AND OUR VERY OWN INTRAMURAL!

[tennessoui]

wait lol au where post-war, the jedi order does a date auction a la every cliche ever where they auction off a date night with one of their jedi generals. it's supposed to raise credits for various post-war charities as well as stoke good feelings about the order (the smear campaign was pretty effective, even if sidious died before the genocide bit)

obviously both the hero with no fear and the negotiator are put on the metaphorical chopping block. anakin is a Good Husband™️ so he clears this with Padmé first, and she laughs and agrees and wishes him luck in surviving the hoards of fans that desire him carnally. she says as a senator, she will be expected to attend and maybe even bid. they both agree that it would be way too obvious for their super secret marriage if she bids on anakin, and anakin asks her to bid on obi-wan in a spur of the moment thing.

it's just. obi-wan was really hurt aboard the invisible hand and then he was hurt again when fighting with grievous. and is anyone vetting these random people who will get to go on a date with the jedi? anyone could win!! a disgruntled separatist could win obi-wan's attention for a night and then take him on a date and then kill him!!!! under anakin's very nose!!!

anakin actually gets like. super concerned about this possibility. like super concerned. he gets padmé to promise that she will bid however much it takes to win obi-wan's hand (she is after all generationally wealthy) and she agrees because she loves him and then also follows through because she's a woman of her word.

anakin gets bid on by several people, one woman wins, it's whatever, anakin doesn't care. what anakin cares about is making sure he and this person can go to the same restaurant as obi-wan and padmé. just like. to make sure obi-wan is alright. he was looking quite flushed during the bidding? anakin is Concerned.

and anakin's poor date, who paid millions of credits for his attention, has to deal with an anakin who is obsessed with what's happening a table over and why are they laughing and are their knees touching beneath the table and maybe anakin should go over and like? break it up? his master is obviously a bit uncomfortable in all this candlelight. he looks beautiful, obviously, but he's clearly uncomfortable and he would feel better if anakin were there. obviously.

and anakin's poor date ALSO has to deal with meeting obi-wan kenobi after/during dinner because anakin can't keep in his lane, and general kenobi is downright hostile and cold to her because he's feeling incredibly overprotective at the thought of anakin having to spend time with some woman who bought him. as if he were a slave again.

[pucksandpower]

BBC Sport has received confirmation that Adrian Newey is to leave Red Bull Racing in the wake of the controversy involving allegations about team principal Christian Horner.

[sarah-dipitous]

The Dragon Prince did “being abandoned by your terrible dad despite how much you love and look up to him” and “desperately trying to keep what’s left of your broken family together” and “not forgiving your terrible dad” and “terrible dad atones for his awfulness even if his son doesn’t forgive him” better than Horikoshi could ever dream

[nervouspearl]

[thesherrinfordfacility]

Good Omens S2 + Onion Headlines (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Aziraphale Special | Crowley Special)

+ bonus

[lordandladywhistledown]

Way too many people in this fandom expect Colin to be this nuanced, interesting, and deep character with an exciting story when in reality my boy is only 20 (in season 1) and a third child in a rich family, meaning he doesn't even need to have a specific purpose. He's essentially assured to live a lavish life without doing any work.

But the beauty of his character is that he keeps looking for that purpose, as he doesn't want to be seen as a superficial charmer but as an actual person. And he keeps looking for that purpose, whether it might be as a husband and/or father, a traveller, or a writer, but he's still not sure. And that's so great because it shows how developing one's self and discovering one's true passions and dreams takes time and does not come in a starter package when you get born.

Multiple people, including myself, struggle with their identity and their purpose in life so my god why is it so hard to believe Colin is going through something like that himself.

Anthony's purpose has since birth been assigned to him (a future Viscount), and then it just gets thrown onto him immediately when his father dies. He didn't get to choose his purpose in life, but the rest of the children do. Some find it quicker (Benedict), and some find it later (Colin).

Instead of complaining about how boring Colin is, try thinking that maybe he's supposed to be like that because he's yet to find something that makes him interesting (to you haters at least, I find him interesting already)

[thirdtimed]

i think the transition from third life to last life is so interesting wrt how server dynamics were kinda shaped by who turned red first & how fast. like just thinking abt how grian spent a decent portion of 3L allied w a red name despite being a green name & how that set precedence for ren's altar sacrifice to take place, when the initial idea was that red names should isolate themselves & green names Should steer clear... & grian's pledge to scar inadvertantly rendering that null & void lol. and then you have last life where the first to turn red wasn't this huge intimidating power with vast influence on the server, it was Joel, someone already inclined to being a sort of lone wolf... his rapid descent into red name status as hilarious as it was almost seemed as if setting the tone for the rest of the season, like, compared to the two big red names of 3L, red names in LL were treated as exiles and outcasts and socially isolated... & of course this was at the active encouragement of grian as game admin, who stressed as much as possible that when you turn red, your alliances are out the door. and it was pretty much upheld by everyone that once you turn red, you turn your backs on your allies.. its a pretty stark contrast compared to the red/green & red/yellow teamups of 3L

[gacha-every]

HOW DO YA'LL DOWNLOAD SONIC PRIME SEASON 3 EPISODES?!?!

Reason? Uhh MAINLY THEM—

I WANNA EDIT 'EM SO BAD ToT

[my-adhd-gremlin-blog]

For a man with no soul, Grian is very easy to possess...

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

I can just imagine the season 5 finale of Puppet History now. Where Evil!Posessed!Professor goes up against Ryan Bergara.

But then Ryan smiles...

Evil!Professor: You’re finished, Beef Boy!!!

Ryan:...Oh, Professor. I’m not Ryan...I’m Ricky. Ricky Goldsworth.

[itsstede]

So. Ten days to go, eh? Ten days to wrap up my things and say goodbye to my family and friends who don’t watch neither OFMD nor Loki. To stock up with food and tea and coffee, to run errands, do house and homework in advance. To finish the games I’ve been playing and the books I’ve been reading.

The fandom troll is about to emerge for the autumn show harvest phase.

[hopeinthebox]

i was tagged by the biblically accurate angels @cordiallyfuturedwight and @aprylynn for the september round up <33

i'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this combination of tracks but i'm simply not privy to it. tagging favs if you fancy it: @thvinyl @btscontentenjoyer @spicyclematis @hoseeok @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @eoieopda MWAH and always @monismochi !!!!!!!

[adreamoverlife]

You know if the spn writers wanted to make Sam suffer THAT bad with his connection to Lucifer and also wanted to make Michael an asshole in season 13 why not combine the two?

Michael who sees humans only through the lenses of their relation to heaven. (Projecting himself onto Dean and Lucifer onto Sam) I think it’d be really cool and fucked up if instead of callous toward Sam’s time in the cage Michael was almost nurturing. Your blood sugar smells low Sam, here’s some food. Quite the silver tongue when speaking with others I see. Be careful, Sammy don’t trip. Lucifer are you even listening to me? I’ll watch over you.

(Adding into this, what if instead of Nick running around trying to avenge his family alone, when he prays to Lucifer for help Michael answers in his stead. Because it’s his baby brother’s corpse, of course he needs his big brothers help for things! Just like when they were little and Lucifer could barely fly.)

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

i cannot tell you how totally this cancellation has emotionally exhausted me for this past week 😭

[vonlipvig]

they shifted into the veepverse for a second there