Instructional
Summer Prep 101: An LD’ers Guide to Taking Advantage of Your Summer Break. Part 2 of 3
Last week we discussed researching the topic area and building a policy chain. This week we can start putting it all together by tagging and/or frontlining all of the literature in your policy chain. At this point there is no right or wrong way to approach cutting/frontlining. As long as you’re gathering evidence for good [...]
Amended Resolutions
Per an email sent to the IE-L on Thursday, May 5 at 5:49pm the Lincoln Douglas Committee has revised the wording of the 5 resolutions: The Lincoln Douglas Committee has revised the wording of the 5 resolutions for clarification reasons. If you have already voted, and feel you need to change your ballot, send me [...]
Possible Resolutions
NOTE: The possible resolutions have been amended as of Thursday, May 6. You can view the new resolutions here. New Poll available in that post since this one is now moot. From the IE-L: THE NFA LINCOLN DOUGLAS COMMITTEE AS FORMULATED THE FOLLOW LD DEBATE RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THE 2011-2012 DEBATE SEASON. PLEASE READ [...]
Why do you participate in debate?
Now that the season is over I think it’d be a great time to reflect: why do you participate in debate? I often find these conversations are helpful at the end of the season when so many coaches and students are experiencing burnout and may feel like all the hard work of the season was [...]
Summer Prep 101: An LD’ers Guide to Taking Advantage of Your Summer Break. Part 1 of 3
Being a winning LD debater starts with your work ethic. For both the novice and the advanced competitor, success in Lincoln-Douglas debate is about research. Those who are willing to do the research give themselves a competitive advantage in every round they enter. This is because they understand the topic area well enough to articulate to [...]
Possible Topic Wordings?
We probably have only a few more days to submit possible topic words to the NFA-LD committee (specifically Dave Trumble (dtrumble at anselm edu)) since the final five resolutions will be published April 30. If you’ve ever had to write topics for a tournament you’ll know it a really hard job and it’s essentially impossible [...]
2011-2012 Topic Area Announced
From the IE-L: The ballots have been returned and the voting was very close. Here is the results of the voting and the topic area for 2011-2012. 1st place: U.S. – CHINA FOREIGN POLICY - This will be the topic area for LD Debate for 2011-2012. (86 pts.) 2nd place: THE MIDDLE EAST – [...]
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 [...]
Winning LD in Cross Examination
Despite there only being a few LD tournaments left, I find it pertinent to discuss the importance of establishing perceptual credibility with your critic. One of the big complaints from Negative debaters this year is the lack of generic offensive arguments which most topics provide. For example, last year there were generic DA’s on decreasing [...]
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 [...]
2010-11 Yearlong Sweeps Results
Once again, NFA L/D in Southern California has experienced it’s largest year on record. Here are the final results of this school year’s yearlong sweeps. These results take into account the California Double-Up, Fall Champs, Sunset Cliffs, Golden Cowboy, SoCal LD Champs and Spring Champs. For the Lincoln Division (Highest percentage of wins): 1. Moorpark [...]
