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• 02.28.10
  2010 Arizona NFL District Results
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  The Arizona NFL District has qualified three Public Forum Debate teams to the NFL National Tournament in Kansas City. Q: Chapparal: Jackson Arn & Neel Rao Q: Desert Vista: Greg Hietala & Brittany Stanchik Q: Chandler Prep: Martin Lawrence & Rachel Molzen See the PFDebate Wiki for a running list of 2010 qualifiers in Public Forum Debate.
  
  
• 02.28.10
  Registration Opens for Middle School Nationals
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  The 2010 IDEA/NJFL National Middle School Tournament will be hosted by Dowling Catholic High School in Des Moines, Iowa, June 24–27. Schools are encouraged to make travel arrangements as soon as possible, since several events are happening in Des Moines that weekend. This year’s tournament will feature the addition of Declamation as a speech event. Enhanced opportunities for judge training are also available, to ensure the most educational experience possible for the young people attending. Visit the tournament registration Web site for complete tournament information, travel recommendations, and registration. For more information on the two sponsoring organizations, visit the NJFL site or ...
  
  
• 02.28.10
  Uncharacteristic weekend post
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  This weekend was the worst. I won't bore you with tales of true debate coach adventure, how I survived the cold and the lack of electricity and the lack of internet because it's too boring, but it was also boring going through it. And cold. And to think: I coulda been at Lakeland. Anyhow, much returns to normal, and Lakeland will live on, on the weekend previously owned by the MHL Grand Championships. We will combine the two. Since Lakeland is already free, and we were only going to charge a small trophy fee for the MHLGC, it seems to ...
  
  
• 02.28.10
  Belgrde Open 2010 Live Streams
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  Image via WikipediaFrom Manos Moschopoulos:Today and tomorrow we will be streaming one debate from every preliminary round, the semi finals and the grand final of the Belgrade Open, starting at 11 AM CET. In order to see our live stream click through to our website at www.belgradeopen.rs - you will find our embedded video on our main page.We would like to thank Mite Kuzevski and Viktor Stoimirov
  
  
• 02.28.10
  AlJazeera Telecasts more WSDC Debates
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  Image via WikipediaFrom QatarDebate:QatarDebate is absolutely delighted to announce this splendid news - Today, at 6 pm, AlJazeera Mubasher will be telecasting a very interesting debate between Turkey & Pakistan from the WSDC 2010, held for the first time in Doha and the Middle East region. This prestigious international competition brought together 57 countries (the highest number in the
  
  
• 02.27.10
  Tournament of Champions Qualifying Tournament History and Trivia
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  A few questions that arose while I was working on some statistical projects involving this year’s tournament results prompted me to finish something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time: create a spreadsheet listing the history of Tournament of Champions qualifying tournaments by bid level. Thanks to e-Debate and the HS Debate Archive, I was able to find the list of qualifying tournaments for every season since 1997-1998. In the thirteen seasons for which data is available, a total of 76 different tournaments have been designated as a TOC qualifier; a spreadsheet with year-by-year bid levels is available ...
  
  
• 02.27.10
  The View From Tab Releases Episode 16
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  CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y., LOS ANGELES, Cali., and NEW YORK, N.Y. — Jim Menick of Hendrick Hudson High School, Jon Cruz of the Bronx High School of Science, and Mike Bietz of Harvard-Westlake School have released the latest installment of their podcast, The View from Tab. Consider the sixteen episode the, lost episode. What a time for a technical glitch! The podcast will be back, recorded properly, next week.
  
  
• 02.26.10
  Request: Results Packets
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  In order to complete the “Baker+” calculations, I need results from the following tournaments (including prelims and elims unless otherwise noted): Houston-Memorial (TX) Kansas City Community College (KS) Auburn (WA) La Costa Canyon (CA) – just need packet, not elims Long Beach (CA) Omaha-Westside (NE) Samford University (AL) Vestavia Hills (AL) If you have any of these results, please email them to me (bill@the3nr.com).
  
  
• 02.26.10
  Debate Sabermetrics: A Statistical Analysis of the Season’s Top Individual Speakers
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  Ever wonder who has been the best speaker in the country over the course of the season? While the National Debate Coaches’ Association Baker Award recognizes the year long excellence of teams, no such award exists to recognize the excellence of individual debaters. The following is an attempt to fill that gap with a statistical analysis of the speaker points and speaker awards earned by the nation’s top policy debaters during the 2009-2010 season. Methodology The performance of individual debaters is assessed in each round through the assignment of speaker points and at each tournament through the tabulation of speaker awards. A ...
  
  
• 02.26.10
  Wasting Prep Time 2-26-2010
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  First Step to Mr. Fusion? “Scientists may have just made the breakthrough of a lifetime, turning discarded fruit peels and other throwaways into cheap, clean fuel to power the world’s vehicles.” Supreme Court Fantasy League This doesn’t strike me as a big fantasy sports crowd, but Fantasy SCOTUS might excite a few people. ConCon Anyone? After Citizens United, there are increased calls for a Constitutional Convention. Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration The Founding Fathers in a music video. The Great Global Warming Collapse “As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement.” Nuclear Proliferation Is This Year’s Inconvenient Truth I hope ...
  
  

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