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As has already been mentioned, Liberty's debate team has for three years running won all three major intercollegiate policy debate organization championships--an unprecedented achievement by any college or
as already mentioned, that's not true. Liberty decided to add up all the cumulative points of all their debaters throughout the year, and annouce themselves with the most points and the winners. Problem is the National Debate organizations don't determine the winner that way. They've never taken 1st place, period. They've had a LOT of 5th place winners, though. They give 1st place 5 points, and 5th place one point, so they rationalize that 6 5th place winners add up to 6, which is more than the 1st place winner scored with 5. So they announce themselves the all time super winners of the universe! Problem is, it's a lie. And really steals from the students who actually DID win (from OTHER universities, by the way).