Archive for February, 2008
2008 SoCal LD Championships
Cerritos College hosted the 2nd annual Southern California LD Debate Championships Sunday, February 16, 2008. The following 13 schools competed in either NFA-LD or Parli-LD:
1. California Baptist University
2. Cerritos College
3. El Camino College
4. El Paso Community College
5. Glendale [...]
U.S. Policy in the Horn of Africa Background
Came across this speech from James Knight, Director, Office for East Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, from University of San Diego in December 2007. It lays out some great policy analysis and case areas for the topic.
If you are looking to run something new, or need to develop some specific neg arguments, [...]
Importance of Public Speaking Skills
Saw this great post over at the global debate blog on the importance of public speaking for Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.
All the more reason to try an event that stresses good public speaking skills!
How much to write out for the round?
An interesting question has come up around camp CalBap this week. How much do we want to write on our debate briefs? How much outside of the evidence, cites and tag lines? There are two schools of thought on this.
One says that you should put in lots of transitional statements [...]
LD in Northern California!
Kasey here just checking in from the NCFA Championships here at Diablo Valley College. We had a great turnout here with Pacific, UN Reno, Santa Clara, and Modesto JC. We even had a quarters break!
Congratulations to Pacific’s Will Chamberlain for defeating UNR’s Matthew Hogan on a close 2-1 in our quarters round. The rest of [...]
Effects Topicality, Topicality Part 4
Effects topicality is a variant of topicality. Here, rather than interpreting a specific word in the resolution, you interpret the direct relationship of the plan to the topic. You argue that instead of proving the resolution true, the affirmative team proves something else true, which by an effect of the that being true, [...]
Pt Loma Results
Congratulations again to Western Kentucky for closing out the finals at Point Loma Sunset Cliffs. Definitely a more competitive year than last when WKY closed out Quarterfinals! Full preliminary round and elimination round results are available at forensicstournament.net
Hopefully next year we can have more Southern California debaters participate – shout out to the three [...]
NFA-LD Growing at Pt Loma
Looking at the entries for NFA-LD at forensicstournament.net the Point Loma Sunset Cliffs I think it is amazing that:
1) 35 entries! That’s 3 more LD’rs than in 2006 with quite a few schools from SoCal not competing who normally do.
2) With 35 entries NFA-LD is the 5th largest IE after Novice Impromptu (39 entries), Open [...]
