Victory Briefs
When Is It Appropriate to Restart Speeches?
Every once in a while I encounter a situation where a debater wants to restart a speech. When is this appropriate?
Three Things You Can Do To Improve Your Research by Adam Torson
The depth and quality of your research is strongly correlated to your success on a given topic. For that reason, you should spend time cultivating your research skills just like you do your in-round technical skills. Here are a few tips to help improve your research skills.
Survey by Jake Nebel: The State of Debate
I’ve created a survey to figure out what people think about various judging principles, debate practices, and aspects of debate today. As a community, we may wish to do some soul searching to figure out what kind of activity LD really is, and what kind of activity we really want it to be. Many of these questions get at issues I discussed in my earlier post, Minimal Expectations for Clarity in LD. Please click here to fill out the survey. Every answer helps. I know the wording of each question is not perfect, and may sometimes even be bad, but please answer the question that you think I’m asking, to the best of your abilities.
Also, I apologize in advance for any weird formatting problems. GoogleDocs isn’t the greatest tool for this task, but it is free…
Thanks!
Drew McCormick wins VBT 2012
Strake Jesuit’s Drew McCormick defeated Aliso Niguel’s Regan Grishaber on a 2-1 decision. The panel for the final round was John Scoggin, Becca Traber and Adam Torson. Scoggin dissented.
More results after the jump.
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Paradigms and Principles: Offensive Arguments
This week I would like to discuss the following question:
A. At what point is it appropriate to drop a debater for making an offensive argument rather than simply tanking their speaker points?
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