Author Archive
Affirmative Side Bias
First, I want to congratulate everyone for a fantastic season of NFA-LD in Southern California. The activity is growing by leaps and bounds and there are some phenomenally talented debaters in our area.
I’m going to use this forum to discuss one of the biggest problems that NFA-LD had this year – affirmative side bias. [...]
Sunset Cliffs – Open Field Report
The Sunset Cliffs Invitational, hosted by Point Loma Nazarene University in sunny San Diego is now just a week away. As of Sunday afternoon, there were 40 teams representing 14 schools from eight states. This is truly a phenomenal field – by far the largest and most competitive in Southern California this year. I’ll start [...]
APU and a Fresh Perspective
Greetings! For those readers who may find my name unfamiliar, my name is Nick Matthews. I am a first-year student at UCLA, where I am competing in both NFA-LD and parliamentary debate. In high school, I was a policy debater for four years, competing at both the local and the national level. Now that I’m [...]
