Madison May Drop Mundt Debate Tournament

The Karl E. Mundt Debate Tournament is in the news here in Madison:

• Elisa Sand of the Madison Daily Leader gives extensive coverage to the school's desire to scale back the tournament and hand over hosting duties to Dakota State University. Sand also gives some good history about Senator Mundt and the tournament.
  
• I offer my advocacy and invite some public discussion about keeping the tournament in Madison.

Coaches, teachers, how important are tournaments like Mundt to you? How well does extracurricular competition support your classroom speech efforts?