I probably won't get out to Utah any time soon, but I'm glad to have helped!

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I was on a debate team in high school, so the application area was already quite familiar to me... I was somewhat surprised to not find pre-existing software that solved this problem, since it must exist somewhere, but perhaps I just didn't come up with the right combination of search terms.