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2011-2012 Topic – Banking
The second option on the ballot for next year is banking. Again, as with agriculture, I believe the 2nd place topic paper from the previous year is included automatically. Since there was a tie between Ag and Banking both are being included. I imagine the NFA-LD committee may want to revisit this policy of automatically [...]
BREAKING – Board suspends vote – will keep this year’s topic one more year
Just got an interesting email on the IE-L regarding next year’s NFA-LD topic… … The NFA-LD committee has just finished receiving results from the 2010-2011 coaches NFA-LD survey that was sent out two weeks ago to all active NFA member schools. Apparently, preliminary results indicate that a majority of debaters have decided against engaging the [...]
2011-2012 Topic – Ag Policy
The first topic listed for next year was submitted by Kelly Larson At Missouri Southern. I believe it was originally submitted for this year but was second place and thus gets resubmitted automatically. Here is the full topic paper. Here is the statement of significance: The arena for discussion over the next 10 plus years [...]
Next Year’s Topic…
The topic papers for the 2011-2012 Season are available on the NFA Page. Here are the six choices: Agriculture Policy Banking Regulations and Oversight Higher Education The Middle East U.S./China Foreign Policy U.S. and International Free Trade BALLOT FOR VOTING ON TOPICS (voting ends April 6; NFA member schools may vote). Over the next few [...]
Good luck at Spring Champs!
PSCFA Spring Champs is here and the final pre-nationals LD tournament is is looking to be huge! Novice NFA-LD (7) Junior NFA-LD (14) Open NFA-LD (37) Good luck to all the competitors. Novice: Point Loma Nazarene University – Novice NFA-LD – Ben Carney Point Loma Nazarene University – Novice NFA-LD – Brian Bentley Point Loma [...]
2011 Southern California LD Championships Final Round
Congratulations to Moorpark’s Allison Bowman and El Camino’s Richard Ewell for making it to the final round of this year’s Championships. We have 7 judges evaluating the final round. Good luck! 2011 Southern California LD Championships Open NFA-LD Round Finals .Affirmative Negative Room Judges Moorpark AB v. El Camino RE SS 315 1.Eric Garcia – [...]
Semi-Finals
2011 Southern California LD Championships Open NFA-LD Round Semifinals .Affirmative Negative Room Judge Moorpark AB v. OCC JD SS 213 1.Eric Garcia – IVC 2.Marc Oimet – Palomar 3.Jason Hosfield – Palomar . IVC JH v. El Camino RE SS 214 1.Courtney Anderson – OCC 2.Sherana Polk – OCC 3.Brandan Whearty – Palomar . Share [...]
Quarterfinals
Congratulations to the following 8 debaters for clearing to quarterfinals at the 2011 SoCal LD Championships! It took a 3-1 with high speaks to clear. El Camino Bear Saulet El Camino Richard Ewell El Paso CC Joel Anguiano El Paso CC Terrell Bohannon-Martinez Irvine Valley Jason Hong Moorpark Allison Bowman Orange Coast James Delahoussaye Pasadena [...]
Round 4 – Good luck!
2011 Southern California LD Championships Open NFA-LD Round 4 .Affirmative Negative Room Judge PCC AM EPCC JA SS 211 Rosie Buada – Hired Moorpark AB EPCC TB SS 212 Jeanne Dunphy – LA City Palomar CD EPCC AG SS 213 Eric Garcia – IVC El Camino RE Palomar SM SS 214 Kevin Castleman – OCC [...]
Round 3
2011 Southern California LD Championships Feb 20, 2011 Open NFA-LD for Round 3 – 11:00am •CBU AL is debating El Camino RE •CBU FS is debating Palomar CD •CBU RW is debating OCC PR •EPCC AG is debating PCC AM •EPCC JA is debating El Camino SM •EPCC TB is debating El Camino AM •El [...]
Round 2 Pairings
2011 Southern California LD Championships Open NFA-LD Round 2 .Affirmative Negative Room Judge OCC HS EPCC TB SS 211 Brian Ekstrand – Cerritos OCC JD EPCC AG SS 212 Rosie Buada – Hired OCC MR Moorpark AB SS 213 Bill Sparks – Cerritos El Camino BS OCC PR SS 214 Michael Miller – Glendale, CA [...]
Round 1 Pairings
OCC CG CBU AL SS 212 Michael Miller – Glendale, CA OCC BJ LA City JK SS 211 Janice Tessman – Glendale, CA OCC NT Glendale, CA RB SS 213 Ashley Graham – El Camino El Camino AM OCC MR SS 214 Brian Ekstrand – Cerritos CBU RW OCC JD SS 215 Francesca Bishop – [...]
