Today saw day two of the Binghamton tournament, with a final preliminary round and then quarters, semis and final. We both judged all three out rounds, and after an excellent final the overall winners were Vermont. Our hosts Cornell did really well too, with one of their teams coming second in the final, lots of top ten speakers, and a domination of the policy division.
Early evening, we set off for Cornell in Ithaca, about 1hr away. We stopped en route with some of the Cornll team to sample Binghamton's unique speciality, the 'Spiedie', which is a kind of sandwich with meat marinated in a specific way. The drive that followed through the rural countryside of New York state, where the trees were just beginning to change their colour for 'fall'. We arrived early evening into a very beautiful Ithaca. Ithaca is a fairly small town in New York State, very much dominated but its two Universities (Cornell and Ithaca COllege, which is in fact our next stop). After checking into our hotel we headed for food and some drinks in 'Collegetown' (the bit of the town around the campus), with Chris who is also in Cornell for a couple of days, and bumped into a few of the policy coaches. Then headed back for a good nights sleep, in preparation for, amongst other things, the prison trip planned for tomorrow!
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