Archive for October, 2008
UOP LD Reminder
Hey So Cal! I am taking timeout during our first rain of the season up here in Norcal to remind you to come to the 2008 Pacific Meets the Delta Swing in LD! As usual we will be offering LD at Paul Winters! And have received confirmation that many schools that are coming in from [...]
Judging NFA-LD
A lot of great discussion on the site regarding what NFA-LD is. I do not presume to know – however, I wanted to add in my opinion. First, a little background. It’s been a struggle to get NFA-LD added as a regular event at both the local league (PSCFA) and local invitationals. I’m constantly emailing [...]
The “Invasion” Case
Yes, CBU ran (and may still run) what is essentially a “make Cuba the 51st state case”. We seemed to get some nasty (albeit good-natured nasty) comments about the case at the last few tournaments, so I thought I would post it, and defend our choice as a team. First, I don’t think the case [...]
Introduction to NFA-LD
Earlier this semester I had the privilege of hosting a ‘masters class’ at our PSCFA coaches conference on coaching and judging NFA-LD. There were roughly 20 people in attendance representing about 10-15 schools, many of which have never done NFA-LD before this season. I was really excited with the discussion we had which covered event [...]
APU Elim Results
Congratulations to all the debaters at the recent Cougar Classic tournament held at Azusa Pacific. A special thank you to Azusa Pacific who has offered NFA-LD for the past few years at their tournament. Congratulations to Northern Arizona’s Zach Freels in senior and Pasadena City’s Nolan Pack for winning junior! NAU has consistently done well [...]
Important Day
Heard some good feedback about the rounds at APU this weekend! Congratulations to all the debaters. Thought I’d pass this round – Today, 48 years ago, President Eisenhower placed an embargo on all goods exported to Cuba. Here is a interesting article with some background. Next SoCal tournament, as far as I’m aware, is PSCFA [...]
Wow – good luck at APU!
Tremendous interest in NFA-LD this weekend at the Azusa tournament! Good luck to the 21 debaters in junior and 17 debaters in Senior – a total of 38 NFA-LD entries! wow! 12 schools are competing which has to be a new record in Southern California. Good luck and I’ll make sure to post the results [...]
Cuba and the 2008 Presidential Election
Saw this interesting article at MSN which describes how Cubans are seeing the 2008 Presidential election. Looks like Obama is a favorite among the informal poll: In our own informal NBC News survey of 100 people in downtown Havana, 63 said they preferred Obama to McCain, two preferred McCain, 13 had no preference and 22 [...]
Generic Neg Evidence
Here is some evidence that we prepared for the last tournament to run against every (topical) case. It may not be the best negative evidence but it something to read against solvency. Again, like other individual events, I like that in NFA-LD we can constantly improve our evidence and cases. Until Nationals, I would always [...]
Case list website
Saw this note on the IE-L listserve from Martin Harris of Drury: I have created a new page to help schools prepare for Lincoln Douglas debate. It is a wiki that contains information about what cases different schools are “running.” If you do LD, or know people that do, I would appreciate whatever information you [...]
Concordia NFA-LD results
Congratulations to the 15 NFA-LD debaters who participated in the first Southern California NFA-LD tournament of the year at Concordia! After four spirited rounds we broke the top 8 debaters to quarterfinals. Of note, there were two 2-2 teams that did not clear: Cerritos’ Javon Payton & Pt Loma’s MacLean Andrews – Congrats! Also of [...]
Good luck!
First NFA-LD tournament in Southern California is tomorrow – here are the entries from forensicstournament.net 17 debaters representing 5 schools will compete at Concordia this Sunday. I want to especially congratulate Pt Loma and Pasadena City College for their first NFA-LD tournament in Southern California! 2008 Concordia Eagle Invitational NFA Lincoln Douglas entries: 1. Point [...]
