Tournaments
Phi Rho Pi LD Results
Congrats to the following debaters from SoCal for their success at PRP! Gold El Camino – Jonny Deatherage IVC – Kelley Kehoe Moorpark – Keith Corley Silver Palomar – Desiree Otillio IVC – Steven Cosgrove El Camino – Frank Masi Bronze El Camino Carter Beck El Camino Harrison Shieh Irvine Valley Peter Doesburg Irvine Valley [...]
2012-2013 Topic Announced!
From the IE-L === The NFA Lincoln Douglas debate resolution for 2012-2013 will be as follows: RESOLVED: THE USFG SHOULD SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE ASSISTANCE FOR ORGANIC AND/OR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. This resolution received a total of 135 points in the tabulation of the ballots returned. The second place resolution received a total of [...]
PSCFA Spring Champs
Good luck to all 79 NFA-LD Debaters this weekend at the PSCFA Spring Champs tournament! NFA-LD has been growing by leaps and bounds and it’s really exciting to see so many students participating in the event. For comparison here are the numbers for the past few years at Spring Champs: 2012 Total: 79 (S:50 J:14 [...]
Upcoming Tournaments
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up of the 7 local NFA-LD tournaments for the upcoming two months! There are NFA-LD tournaments for six weekends in a row in the Southern California area! Jan 21-22 — The Free at Concordia – Concordia Univ, Irvine (Irvine, CA) Jan 29 — Back to the Beach Pt [...]
PSCFA Fall Champs Results
I wanted to post the results from the 2011 PSCFA Fall Champs. Result Sheets are available at forensicstournament.net. 25 Senior NFA-LD Debaters and 21 Junior NFA-LD Debaters participated in 4 rounds of prelims. Here are the award winners – Congrats! Senior NFA-LD Bronze Biola Univeristy Hilary Boerger Palomar College Brandan Fletcher Point Loma Nazarene University [...]
Good luck this weekend!
10 NFA-LD Debaters are braving it out this weekend at the 2011 Ray Dahlin Invitational – best of luck! Thanks to Palomar for offering the event for the first time at their tournament. I will try to report breaks and any other information here as we go along. 2011 The Ray Dahlin Invitational Open NFA-LD [...]
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 [...]
2011 PSCFA Cool Off
At last year’s PSCFA Fall Coaches Meeting I was able to persuade the coaches to add NFA-LD as an event to the PSCFA Cool Off. This will be the first year the event is offered at our year end novice tournament. It should be a great way to introduce the event to new students and [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
