Archive for September, 2006
2007 UCSD Sun God Invitational
September 27, 2006 Dear Friends and Colleagues: UCSD is pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual Sun God Invitational to be held January 20-21, 2007 . We will offer 8 preliminary rounds of parliamentary debate breaking to appropriate elimination rounds in one open division. Last year we broke to octo-finals and we anticipate the [...]
Example 1AC
Here is an example of a 1AC – the first speech in an NFA-LD round. This is what is referred to as an Affirmative Team’s “case.” It is well thought out, scripted, and teams should anticipate answers to the 1AC that the negative team will make. The 1AC (First Affirmative Constructive) There are two main [...]
Rules for Judging
NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate is a one-person, persuasive, policy debate on traditional stock issues. It is a communication event, by which we mean the philosophy of the activity is consistent with that which governs other individual events. Competitors in NFA Lincoln-Douglas will be evaluated on their analysis, use of evidence, and ability to effectively and persuasively [...]
NFA-LD Overview
RESOLVED: that the United States Federal Government should adopt a policy to significantly increase the production of energy from renewable sources. In a policy debate, the affirmative side supports the topic. The affirmative offers one or more reasons as to why the principles expressed in the topic ought to be upheld. This usually means that [...]
NFA-LD at PSCFA!
FYI – at the PSCFA conferences this past weekend we were able to add NFA-LD as a 1 year experimental event to the PSCFA Fall Champs, Spring Champs, and Cooloff tournaments this year! Unfortunately we had to schedule it to run against parli but it was either that or sure defeat. So hopefully a few [...]
Welcome
Welcome to SoCal-LD, the internet home for NFA-LD in Southern California! This site will feature tons of information to help debaters start competing in NFA-LD. Over the next year we will post instructional material on debating NFA-LD, tournament information, and evidence to help you get started. If you would like to contribute to the site [...]
