Tournaments
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 a warmup [...]
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 need [...]
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? Share on Facebook
PSCFA Fall Champs
FYI – registration for Fall Champs is now open at forensicstournament.net. PSCFA does have a waiting list procedure in case there are too many entries. Given the tremendous growth of NFA-LD you’d be wise to enter your students as quickly as possible to give your students the best chance of competing in case we run [...]
Judge Training Feature
One of the reasons I’m really liking this topic is the opportunity we have this year to really branch out with our judging pools. I’d be remiss to not mention the fact that I’m shamelessly stealing this idea from Dr. Kasle at Riverside who was able to arrange for an excellent presentation from the Federal [...]
IVC Free LD Tournament Results
Thanks to Edwin and Gary for putting on a free LD tournament a few weeks ago. Tournaments are not a easy thing to host and to not charge fees is even a greater service to the community. Here is the results and award winners: Open Division GOLD Cal Baptist (Alex Lamascus) SILVER UC Los Angeles [...]
APU and a Fresh Perspective
Greetings! For those readers who may find my name unfamiliar, my name is Nick Matthews. I am a first-year student at UCLA, where I am competing in both NFA-LD and parliamentary debate. In high school, I was a policy debater for four years, competing at both the local and the national level. Now that I’m [...]
Update to Yearlong Sweeps #2 & APU Results
Here’s the second update to the yearlong sweeps. It reflects the changes discussed since the last update, but should in no way be taken to be the final version of our rules. For example, we have no definite rounds/tournaments standards for qualifications. The results from last weekend are up on forensicstournament.net, but for convenience I’ll [...]
Huge turnout for APU
Just looking over the entries for this weekend and wow – NFA-LD has 54 entries this weekend! 12 schools are entered from 3 states: Azusa Biola Cal Baptist Concordia-Irvine CSU LA El Camino Northern Arizona Pasadena City College Point Loma Riverside City College Univ of the Pacific US Air Force Academy Good luck to all [...]
2009 RCC Championship Round
Here is the championship round from the RCC tournament. Thanks to both debaters for letting me videotape their round! 2009 RCC NFA-LD Tournament Championship Round from Danny Cantrell on Vimeo. Share on Facebook
RCC Cume Sheets Now Available
Congratulations again to all of the debaters for a fantastic tournament at Riverside today. I really enjoyed watching the two rounds I got to judge. The cume sheets are now available at forensicstournament.net. Professor Marse, Cal Baptist, has agreed to start working on the initial rankings of the SoCal-LD Cup so be on the lookout [...]
