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SoCal-LD.net updates
Hello all – not sure how many people are really all that interested but I’ve decided to change a few things for this upcoming year and wanted to seek anyone’s input in case they want to argue for something different. 1. We’ll effectively end the sweepstakes award. I don’t think it brought much value. Mike [...]
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 [...]
100,000 hits and counting!
I just wanted to say a quick thank you to all the readers of our blog. In 4+ short years we’ve topped a 100,000 total hits! I’m looking forward to seeing what this years topic brings – good luck in writing your aff cases and neg cases. Azusa Pacific is the first big NFA-LD tournament [...]
Season Sweepstakes 2010-2011
Last year we tried for the first time to run a season sweepstakes. I still have to get trophies to the winners but they are in process =) here is a recap of the award winners: Lincoln Division (Highest % of adjusted wins in at least three tournaments) 1 Biola University 2 University of California, [...]
Executive Committee: 2010-2011 Student Members
I’m happy to announce the two winners of the election for the two student members of the executive committee! A total of 17 ballots were cast and using an IRV vote system the two members are: Robert Maxwell (on the right) David Saulet (on the left) So the new executive committee will be: Danny Cantrell [...]
Reminder: Voting deadline 6/24
Students Four students were interested in serving on the board for next year. Thus, we will need to have an election. The qualifications to vote are that you must be a student from Southern California, competed in at least 1 NFA-LD tournament last year (2009-2010 season), and be interested in participating in NFA-LD next year. [...]
2010-2011 Executive Committee
OK – since the Southern California NFA-LD community is getting larger and I’d like to include more diverse voices on this blog, I’ve decided to try and setup an executive committee so that I’m not running this through fiat. I’d also like to ensure that the blog features plenty of new content each week and [...]
Forming an Executive Committee
Well, SoCal-LD.net seems like it’s getting bigger and bigger and this year NFA-LD was the largest its ever been in Southern California. To make the site work more effectively for our growing community I think it’s time to form an executive committee. Here are my ideas but they are not exhaustive nor final – I’d [...]
One Small step for… NFA-LD?
Alright! Our first poll is finished at SoCal-LD.net and our community topic for next year that we’ll submit is on Space Exploration. Here are the requirements for the brief due by Jan 31 – so we have about two weeks. In order to be accepted for consideration, the topic area must be in the form [...]
Next Year’s Topic
OK – we had three submissions for possible topic areas that we can concentrate on. Nick recommended space exploration Mat recommended indigenous people Shantal recommended education in the middle east. I think we should approach this as a community. We’ll have a poll and whatever topic area get’s the most votes we’ll rally behind. We’ll [...]
And the winner is
Our first contest is over for SoCal-LD.net and I’m happy to announce NKM with a guess of 25,000. was the winner! From August 1 to Dec 31, SoCal-LD.net had 26,802 total hits for an average of 5,360 hits per month! That means the difference was 1,802 for NKM – the closest of the guesses. Since [...]
Thanks
I want to send out a big thank you to all of the students, coaches, and judges who have visited the site so far in the 2009 season! As referenced earlier the site has had fantastic growth in what is now the 4th season we’ve been promoting NFA-LD debate. As we get closer to Dec [...]
