While the previous two installments of the “Bad Cards” series highlighted popular but low-quality impact cards, this is not the only way that awful evidence is used in high school debates. In the third edition of the series, the issue is not the credibility of the evidence’s author or the ...
Debate Ronin Malgor the Warrior and I took some time away from our lives of international intrigue in order to deliver a dropkick to the sternum of all those jabronies out there debating the K like a DA.
Malgor Warming up for the Podcast
Topics discussed in this podcast include
-how we are ...
The Inland Empire NFL District in Washington has qualified two Public Forum Debate teams to the NFL National Tournament in Kansas City.
Q: Mead: David Spivey & Wraith Snow
Q: Gonzaga Prep: Justin Jurkovac & Mack Foster
A: University: Conner Sabin & Jordan Welter
A: Lake City: Ben Cooper & Zack Schreiber
This past weekend The Harker School hosted the 2010 Harker Beak and Talon Round Robin and the Nichols Invitational.
Kurt Girard & Maggie Jackson from Centaurus (CO) defeated Carl Shan & Pargat Singh from Lynbrook on a 3–2 decision to win the Harker Beak and Talon Round Robin. The semifinalists were ...
Interesting
From Bojana Skrt:THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL DEBATE TOURNAMENT SLOVENIA, Središče ob Dravi, 5th and 6th March 2010 The tournament was a huge success due to debate coach Andreja Šut and her school did a really great job. There are 120 students in the school, from the ...
There’s the Panivore, and now there’s the Little Ruffian (a Speecho-American). Who knew that he too was panivorous. I had talked to him in the past, and he intimated that by comparison to his famous sibling, he would eat anything that wasn’t nailed down. So after CFL Grands Saturday, we ...
From http://www.amsterdameudc.org/?page_id=349Registration resultsRegistration has closed. We received registrations for 256 teams from 120 institutions and 25 countries.The teamcap of our tournament is 200. Unfortunately, this means that we have to place 56 teams on the waiting list.We distributed the 200 available places using the following two criteriaThe first institution from ...
The purpose of CX is to ask questions that will help you win the debate, that should be pretty non controversial. However a lot of cx habits have been annoying me lately so here we go:
You should probably also read this post, not going to duplicate.
Don’t ask about cards the ...
Avatar is old hat for some debaters. I have had an avatar for almost two years now. That's the picture of my avatar. A year ago a debate was held in virtual reality (SecondLife) and was a stunning success. Debaters from all over the world gathered for free together and ...