Tournaments

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Season Sweepstakes – Update #4

This update includes Fall Champs. As always, all errors in tabulation, spelling, etc. are entirely my own. Let me know of any mistakes and I’ll fix them right away.
Reminder: We will have at least 3 LD Tournaments this semester (Pt. Loma, LD Champs, Spring Champs) which means that all debaters and teams will [...]

Fall Semester Reflections?

Sorry about the lack of posts but as I’m sure like most of you I’ve been swamped with finals. I thought this may be a good time to reflect on the first semester of competition. What do you all think of this topic? Anything interesting so far?