Archive for October, 2007
Malaria Article in the NYT
Great article on malaria nets – helpful for those running DDT or those going neg against it! Here is the brief I created using the card cutter feature available on the site here Malaria nets.doc Malaria nets.pdf Share on Facebook
AT Marse – In defense of Kritiks in NFA-LD
Forgive the title of the post, just trying to have a little fun. I don’t have too much of a problem with the things that Mike Marse is advocating (and similarly Danny Cantrell in his comment), but I wanted to provide an alternative viewpoint. I don’t think that ALL kritiks are against the NFA-LD rules. [...]
Kritik Theory
I wanted to explain what I believe about Kritiks, and hopefully start a discussion that will lead to some understanding about this realm of debate theory. Why now? This last weekend at the California Double-Up some of my students (the ones who don’t also do CEDA) ran into their first kritiks. So, what is a [...]
NFA LD Results From the California Double Up
Congrats to the following for advancing to elimination rounds! Arizona State: Josh Whitaker Northern Arizona: Antonio De La Garza, Adam Fluke, Zach Freels San Diego Christian: Darren Burdett Univ of CA at SD: Zachary Schultz Univ of Nev, Reno: Matt Hogan Univ of the Pacific: Broc Maples, Emily Sheldon, Richard Aragon, Raymond Candler, Steve Farias, [...]
Tournament Attendance and Planning
The purpose of this post is to provide some direction and guidance for tournament selection and participation in the activity as a whole. I write this post with the assumption that larger tournaments in both numbers and teams present on the whole provide a better learning environment for LD. On California (Including close surrounding areas… [...]
SoCal-LD.net Cal Baptist NFA-LD Debate Tournament Results
Thanks to Mike Marse for hosting what was probably the first NFA-LD only debate tournaments on the west coast! Teams from Cal Baptist, Cerritos, Palomar and Riverside competed at the tournament which had 11 competitors. Everyone learned a lot and got some great early season rounds under their belts. Congratulations to Palomar for closing out [...]
An Idea for Practice Debates
I’ve spent a lot of time in my 7 years of coaching trying to come up with ways to make practice debates more productive and one in particular has been the most helpful. One of the problems I’ve had with practice debates is that they aren’t always productive because the aff might be unique to [...]
Topic Area Background
The LD Camp went very well, with 16 students from 4 schools in attendance. Not bad for the first year of anything that doesn’t give away trophies. Anyway, among the highlights was a discussion of delivery by Prof. Bill Sparks of Cerritos College, who (among other things) explained the difference between strategies that allow you [...]
Evidence Dump
Here are some files that we’ve put together over the past two tournaments. Almost all of these were developed from the free NDCA evidence. Hope everyone does well at the Todd Lewis this weekend!!! Child Soldiers 1AC Child Soldiers – AFF Responses China DA Shell DDT Bad File Drought Insurance 1AC Drought Insurance Aff Answers [...]
New Feature – SoCal-LD.net Card Cutter – Free for two weeks
We are proud to announce a new feature available at SoCal-LD.net – an online card cutter tool. This feature will allow you to easily create briefs for cards you are cutting online (or that you type in from a hardcopy). The program will allow you to save as many cards in a brief and arrange [...]
Judges: The Role of Cross-Examination
One aspect that significantly differs from NPDA to NFA-LD debate is cross-examination. Following the first two constructive speeches there is a 3 minute period where the debaters can ask each other questions. Interestingly, I can find no reference to cross-examination in the official NFA-LD rules. The National Forensics Journal has many articles on judging NFA-LD [...]
Concordia Invitational – NFA-LD Results
Congratulations to the following debaters for making it to the elimination rounds: Cerritos TB – Tariq Bruno Univ of Pacific SF – Steve Farias Univ of Pacific ES – Emily Sheldon Univ of Pacific WC – Will Chamberlain Semifinalist: Cerritos TB Univ of Pacific ES 2nd Place: Univ of Pacific WC 1st Place Univ of [...]
