Archive for October, 2007
Tournament Preparation
When I discuss the role of NFA-LD in college forensics with people in the debate community I consistently hear about how refreshing it will be to hear “thought out, and prepared” arguments as a welcome alternative to parliamentary debate. In light of this observation and the use of evidence I do expect the NFA-LD rounds [...]
Generic Aid Bad
Here is a frontline from the Miami 2007 debate camp – it’s about 22 pages of why aid to Africa fails. Some of it is geared towards Sub-Saharan Africa so make sure not to read those cards =) I think it also helpful to get some citations of negative research articles that you can go [...]
SoCal-LD.net Debate Camp at Cal Baptist Oct 12 & Tournament Oct 13
September 6, 2007 On behalf of California Baptist University, it is my pleasure to invite you to the 2007 SoCal-LD.net Debate Camp, to be held at CBU on Friday, October 12th, 2007, and the SoCal-LD.net Warm Up Invitational to be held at CBU on Saturday, October 13th. Our mission is to allow as many students [...]
Generic Negative Disadvantage
I think the negative strategy for this year’s topic is great for new and experienced debaters. For new students, your goal would be a generic negative strategy against each of the areas of the topic. By this I mean to have a strategy for economic development assistance bad, public health assistance bad, and human rights [...]
Procedurals
Let me say first that I’m really enjoying the different points of view offered on this site. In anticipation of our SoCal-LD.net LD camp coming up in a week or so, I wanted to post some examples of procedural arguments you can use in the round. These are not groundbreaking, and they’re in .doc format [...]
The Joy (sic) of Tournaments
I wanted to take a moment to talk about Tournaments. It’s been brought to my attention by Danny that a lot of visitors to this site are either attending or running NFA-LD tournaments for the first time. As a 12 year veteran of NFA-LD, I’ll try to shed some light on the issue. Tournament Administration/Attendance [...]
