Jeff Liu is Barkley Forum Silver Key Champion

ATLANTA, Ga. — Indian Springs High School’s Jeff Liu is the champion of the fifty-sixth annual Barkley Forum for High Schools at Emory University, having bested Walt Whitman High School’s Marshall Thompson on a 3-0 decision in the Dale Lauder McCall Exhibition. Read more →

Bauschard, Mahoney, Patterson, Smith Named Key Coaches

ATLANTA, Ga. — In 1964, the Barkley Forum, under the direction of Glenn Pelham, began to invite successful high school coaches into an honor society known as the Gold Key Society. Each year, the members of the self-perpetuating Society invite a select number of debate teachers from schools across the nation into membership in a ceremony held during the Barkley Forum for High Schools.

This year’s inductees are Stefan Bauschard of Lakeland High School, Tim Mahoney of Saint Mark’s School of Texas, Randy Patterson of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal High School, and, posthumously, Ross Smith of Wake Forest University. Read more →

The View From Tab Releases Episode 37

CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y., NEW YORK, N.Y., and LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Jim Menick of Hendrick Hudson High School, Jon Cruz of the Bronx High School of Science, Mike Bietz of Harvard-Westlake School, and Chris Palmer of Lexington High School have released the latest installment of their podcast, The View from Tab.

In the thirty-seventh episode, now available for download, Menick, Cruz, Palmer, and Bietz discuss alternative means of structuring speech times — including developing new speeches — in Lincoln-Douglas Debate. (This episode is dedicated to 2004 NFL National Champion Jed Glickstein, who is getting married in the near future!)

Field Report: Barkley Forum

ATLANTA, Ga. — The fields in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Pelham Debate (Policy Debate), Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate for the fifty-sixth annual Barkley Forum for High Schools at Emory University are available here on VBD. Read more →

VBD Weekend Coverage: January 22-24, 2011

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — VBD is providing results from the following tournaments this weekend.

VBT — Finals: Northland Christian’s Josh Roberts defeated New Orleans Jesuit’s Jacob Pritt on a 5-0 decision.
Columbia — Finals: Hunter College’s Diana Li defeated Stuyvesant’s Andrew Eckholm on a 3-0 decision.
Pepperdine — Finals: Palos Verdes Peninsula’s Arjun Tambe defeated Granada Hills’s Or-el Vaknin on a 2-1 decision.