Jim Anderson of Decorabilia, who coaches debate out in Washington, notes that Timothy Sandefur was cited during a Lincoln-Douglas debate he saw recently. I've never been cited in a debate, that I know of, but I have judged debates and had friends cited. And I remember judging a debate involving a Georgetown Day School team (GDS is a private school in D.C. where a large percentage of the rich and powerful send their kids) in which one team cited the father of one of the debaters on the other team and, according to the GDS debater, misinterpreted him. And once I had someone cite the husband of an old friend whose marriage I had attended about third world debt.
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laser72 writes:
I don't think that was them because I was out of the activity by the time they would have been there (I stopped coaching in 1990 and judging in probably 1992). But GDS has had so many kids of the prominent attend there that this happens fairly regularly. Their team this year is quite impressive. They've already won St. Marks, East Grand Rapids and the Georgetown round robin and probably more I don't know about.