Archive for February, 2009
Recent NFA-LD Results in Southern California
Two big tournaments were held in February with one more to go at the PSCFA Spring Championships this weekend at LA Valley College. I wanted to recognize all 28 schools that have participated at Pt Loma Sunset Cliffs and/or the Southern California LD Championships at Cerritos and/or the upcoming PSCFA Spring Championships: Schools: Azusa Pacific [...]
Being ‘Commanding’ as a debater
I’ve discussed previously the importance of public speaking in an NFA-LD debate round. As a self-described communication event the way you present an argument should matter. I think the best framework I’ve seen for how to apply your public speaking to debate is from Tuna Snider’s Code of the debater (old link apparently broken – [...]
Counterplans
A few of my debaters asked me recently about viable counterplans for this topic – honestly, I’m not so sure there are many that would be supported by good quality literature. The NFA-LD rules specify a few conditions for counterplans, three of which I think are critical: The negative may present one counterproposal specific to [...]
