2025 New Years Warmup Online Synchronous Tournament

John A. Logan College - Jan 10-11 | Status: Completed | 6:13 AM Central

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  A. First 2 years Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1A: 09:00 AM

  1. Speaker 1


    "The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written." – Melody Beattie
    "Every end is a new beginning." – Marian Zimmer Bradley

  2. Speaker 2


    "A goal without a plan is just a wish." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." – Brad Paisley

  3. Speaker 3


    "Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." – Gustav Mahler
    "The way we celebrate reveals who we are." – Unknown

  4. Speaker 4


    "No one can whistle a symphony; it takes an orchestra to play it." – H.E. Luccock
    "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." – African Proverb

  5. Speaker 5


    "The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
    "Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." – Nido Qubein

  6. Speaker 6


    "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." – Oprah Winfrey
    "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Round 2A 10:15 AM

  1. Speaker 1


    "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." – Benjamin Franklin
    "New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday." – Charles Lamb

  2. Speaker 2


    "And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been." – Rainer Maria Rilke
    "The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all." – Josiyah Martin

  3. Speaker 3


    "For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice." – T.S. Eliot
    "Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings." – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

  4. Speaker 4


    "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." – Bill Vaughan
    "Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on." – Hal Borland

  5. Speaker 5


    “Dream with ambition, lead with conviction, and you will be applauded every step of the way.” – Kamala Harris

    It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – Andre Gide

  6. Speaker 6


    Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open? – Rumi

    Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. – Buddha

Round 3A 3:30PM (Finals)

  1. Speaker 1


    "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

    "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb

    "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

  2. Speaker 2


    "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

    "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

    "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valéry

  3. Speaker 3


    "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde

    "I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between." - Sylvia Plath

    "You don't have to be perfect to be amazing." - Unknown

  4. Speaker 4


    "You can't change who you are, and you shouldn't have to." - Laverne Cox

    "The purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions." - James Baldwin

    "I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all." - Zora Neale Hurston

  5. Speaker 5


    “As always in life, people want a simple answer… and it’s always wrong.” – Susan Greenfield

    “Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.” – Cristiano Ronaldo

    “When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” -Charles Baxter

  6. Speaker 6


    “You have to be odd to be number one.” -Dr. Seuss

    "We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity." - George Takei

    "Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." - Morticia Addams

  7. Speaker 7


    “It’s useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.” – Frodo Baggins

    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” – Socrates

    “In politics, it’s what isn’t said that matters.” – K.J. Parker

  8. Speaker 8


    "If the story’s over, why am I still writing pages?” – Taylor Swift

    “Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.” -C.S. Lewis

    “Learning is creation, not consumption.” -George Couros