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Critical Thinking
Throughout higher education critical thinking is a central tenant of most college classes. Most students must complete a “critical thinking” requirement in order to get their degree. Debate is certainly one of the best activities to teach critical thinking and is one of the reasons it is my passion to teach and share [...]
Spring Champs Results
Congratulations to the following award winners from last weekend’s tournament. I know Mike will be working on the last season sweeps update….
Very exciting to see 11 different schools receiving at least 1 award this weekend in NFA-LD! Cume sheets available on forensicstournament.net
2010 PSCFA Paul Gaske Spring Champs
San Diego State – Feb 26-28 2010
Final [...]
Spring Champs
There are currently 52 debaters signed up for NFA-LD for this Saturday at the 2010 PSCFA “Paul Gaske” Spring Championship tournament. 26 in Senior, 16 in Junior and 10 in novice from about 13 schools. Good luck to all the competitors!
Novice NFA-LD entries
Jeff Tyler – Pasadena City College
Jonothan Sonoda – Point Loma Nazarene University
Jason [...]
Glendale Breaks
Congratulations to the following 7 debaters for clearing to elimination rounds!
Biola Hensley (Jonathan Hensley)
Biola Reynolds (Steven Reynolds)
El Paso Anguiano (Joel Anguiano)
El Paso Bohannon (Terrell Bohannon)
El Paso Grijalva (Albert Grijalva)
El Paso Klooster (Susannah Klooster)
Mt. SAC Nakama (Jin Nakama)
2010 Glendale Golden Cowboy Tournament
16 debaters are entered for tomorrow’s Glendale tournament – good luck!
February 2010 is probably the first month in Southern California to offer NFA-LD EVERY weekend! Pt Loma, Cerritos, Glendale and Spring Champs – wow, what a month!
We’ll be breaking to semifinals and remember that the final round will be judged by a CA Assembly [...]
Case Idea?
Have your case adopted by the federal government already? Looking for a new winning affirmative after your 1AC went 0-2 last weekend?
Here is an interesting idea that I read about today on the New York Times – roundabouts. It’s pretty clearly topical – I’m not sure how much more reforming of roads you could [...]
Southern California LD Championships – full results
Congratulations to OCC for winning the 4th annual LD Championships!
OCC Towl (Megan Towles) 1st
Pasadena City Pack (Nolan Pack) 2nd
Moorpark Laug (Joe Laughon) Semis
El Paso Boha (Terrell Bohannon) Semis
Irvine Valley Aras (Jaya Arasalike) Quarters
El Camino Ewel (Richard Ewell) Quarters
El Camino Maxw (Robert Maxwell) Quarters
El Camino Saul (David Saulet) Quarters
Cume sheets available at forensicstournament.net!
Southern California LD Championships – breaks
Congratulations to the following 8 debaters for making it to quarterfinals:
El Camino Ewel (Richard Ewell)
El Camino Maxw (Robert Maxwell)
El Camino Saul (David Saulet)
El Paso Boha (Terrell Bohannon)
Irvine Valley Aras (Jaya Arasalike)
Moorpark Laug (Joe Laughon)
OCC Towl (Megan Towles)
Pasadena City Pack (Nolan Pack)
Quarters underway…
4th Annual LD Championships
The tournament is set to begin tomorrow. Here are the entries for NFA-LD. As announced earlier, the tournament will break to quarterfinals which will start at 2:30pm. Good luck. We’ll post updates throughout the day tomorrow.
Round 1 starts at 9:00am
1 Cal Baptist Carp David Carpio
2 Cal Baptist Lama Alex Lamascus
3 Cal Baptist Rose Victor Rose
4 Cal Baptist SF Sam Fragoza
5 Cal [...]
Interesting comment
From the Sunset Cliffs post an anonymous person writes:
all the preparation is wasted. opp strategy is always Topicality, procedurals, and counterplans. the debate doesn’t start until the 2nd speech.
at least thats what it seems like.
If true, I think this is a very damaging to both the future adoption of the event by schools and [...]
New Book on Gridlock
Here is a new book on transportation policy. If you’re looking for some good cards and a qualified source this may be a good pickup before the spring tournaments.
Gridlock presents a wide range of innovative ideas and policy recommendations for creating an effective transportation system—improvements that will increase our mobility and pay for themselves, whether [...]
2010 Southern California LD Championships
Registration is now open for the 2010 Southern California LD Championships to be held Sunday, Feb 14, at Cerritos College. This tournament will feature competition in both NFA-LD and parliamentary-LD debate. Please note that the parli-ld division is limited to students with remaining phi rho pi eligibility (this division is offered mainly as [...]
