Tournaments
2010 SoCal-LD Summer Tournament
Hello all! I’m very excited about a new website that I’ve recently learned about called debatehall.com It is setup very nicely for NFA-LD and I think it would be a fantastic way to keep your LD skills sharp over summer. Here is a video explaining the head-to-head debate feature: What I’m thinking is that we [...]
Possible Topics for Next Year
Here is the ballot sent out over the IE-L. Should be returned to Larry Schnoor at LGene9535 at aol.com LD TOPIC RESOLUTIONS 2010-2011 – Ballot Listed below are the five (5) LD topic resolutions developed by the LD Committee. In order for a ballot to be counted, all five resolutions must be rank ordered. Rank [...]
BREAKING – New Topic for NFA Nationals and Phi Rho Pi
I just got off the phone with an inside source at NFA who told me that the NFA-LD committee, in cooperation with the major two year national tournament, is planning on announcing later today, April 1, that nationals will be using a new topic! Given the steady stream of complaints about this year’s topic: Whose [...]
Next year’s topic area: Mental Health
From the March NFA Newsletter: LINCOLN DOUGLAS INFORMATION A call for topics was included in the January, 2010 Newsletter requesting that each school interested in and an intent to participate in LD Debate, to submit topic areas for consideration to the Chair of the LD Committee. The briefs that were submitted were contained in the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) Share on Facebook
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 [...]
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) [...]
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… Share on Facebook
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 [...]
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 [...]
