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Evidence Sharing
Hello all – if anyone has any evidence from this past year on agriculture that they wouldn’t mind sharing with the community I would be happy to host it here on the evidence page. My experience has been that one of the best teaching tools for new debaters is to see existing evidence that was [...]
Phi Rho Pi LD Results
Congrats to the following debaters from SoCal for their success at PRP! Gold El Camino – Jonny Deatherage IVC – Kelley Kehoe Moorpark – Keith Corley Silver Palomar – Desiree Otillio IVC – Steven Cosgrove El Camino – Frank Masi Bronze El Camino Carter Beck El Camino Harrison Shieh Irvine Valley Peter Doesburg Irvine Valley [...]
“Organic Agriculture” and/or “Sustainable Agriculture”
I always prefer to start with definitions whenever a new topic is released. One of the things I like about this topic is that the terms appear to be well defined in actual LAW which given the United Stated Federal Government as the actor makes a good case for the use of an official government [...]
2012-2013 Topic Announced!
From the IE-L === The NFA Lincoln Douglas debate resolution for 2012-2013 will be as follows: RESOLVED: THE USFG SHOULD SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE ASSISTANCE FOR ORGANIC AND/OR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. This resolution received a total of 135 points in the tabulation of the ballots returned. The second place resolution received a total of [...]
Draft resolutions
Posted on behalf of David Trumble.. Dear LD Community, We are offering the following five draft resolutions (in no particular order) for your consideration. Please send us any comments or suggestions that you might have on the wording, grammar, directionality, scope, or any other relevant aspects. You can write to me or any member of [...]
SoCal LD Champs – Full Results
Congratulations to all 39 debaters for making this year’s SoCal LD Champs one of the largest. El Camino took home the top four awards by closing out the semi-final rounds. Here are the award winners: Octofinals California Baptist University Matt Phillips Octofinals El Camino College Aubrey Manahan Octofinals Irvine Valley College Christopher Danks Octofinals Irvine [...]
SoCal LD Quarterfinals
Congratulations to the following 8 debaters for making it to the quarterfinals! Cal Baptist – Alex Lamascus El Camino – Morgan McNally El Camino – Richard Ewell El Camino – Jonny Deatherage El Camino – Shannon Meredith El Paso – Jamie Salazar Irvine Valley – Jake Glendenning Palomar – Carolina Palmer Postings can be viewed [...]
SoCal LD Breaks
Congratulations to the following 16 debaters for clearing to Elimination Rounds! California Baptist University Alex Lamascus California Baptist University Matt Phillips El Camino College Shannon Meredith El Camino College Richard Ewell El Camino College Aubrey Manahan El Camino College Morgan McNally El Camino College Jonny Deatherage El Paso Community College Jamie Salazar Irvine Valley College [...]
SoCal LD Champs
Round 2 is currently underway for the SoCal LD Champs! Here are the debaters participating: California Baptist University – Alex Lamascus California Baptist University – Matt Phillips California Baptist University – Victor Rose California Baptist University – Richard Wickham El Camino College – Richard Ewell El Camino College – Nick Walden El Camino College – [...]
Good luck this weekend!
10 NFA-LD Debaters are braving it out this weekend at the 2011 Ray Dahlin Invitational – best of luck! Thanks to Palomar for offering the event for the first time at their tournament. I will try to report breaks and any other information here as we go along. 2011 The Ray Dahlin Invitational Open NFA-LD [...]
World Trade Organization
It’s very likely that you will be covering the World Trade Organization (WTO) throughout the upcoming year. I found this Congressional Research Service (CRS – great evidence source!) on “World Trade Organization (WTO): Issues in the Debate on Continued U.S. Participation” and thought there may be some interesting cards to cut on both running a [...]
Good introduction to trade debate
Debate Central is a project of the National Center for Policy Analysis where overviews and evidence is provided to help spur high school policy debate. In the spring of 2010 UIL had a topic that dealt with free trade versus protectionism. While it’s not exactly the same topic we’re covering the site features a great [...]
