2009 VBT Results

LOS ANGELES, Cali. — Over 300 competitors in speech and debated descended on the campus of UCLA to compete in this year’s SoCal Championships/VBT. Full results and packets are available here.

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Former LD Debaters Win Marshall Scholarships

LONDON, United Kingdom — Paul Chen, a former Lincoln-Douglas debater and frequenter of Victory Briefs Daily, alerted me to a December press release from the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. At least three former Lincoln-Douglas debaters have won prestigious Marshall Scholarships for the year 2009 to study for advanced degrees at universities in Britain. The three are Michael Shih, Sam Kleiner, and John Sheffield. Congratulations to all three!

(If there are others listed who I’m overlooking, please let the world know!)

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Scenes from Blake

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Nineteen photographs from the Blake School’s John Edie Holiday Tournament are among the new images added to the Victory Briefs Photo Gallery. (You can also enjoy a retroactive finalists photo from — Wake Forest!) Enjoy!

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Laird Lewis Registration Closes January 6

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Registration for the thirty-sixth annual Laird Lewis Invitational at Myers Park High School will close on Tuesday.

“We have over 620 competitors from ten states registered so far,” notes tournament director Jason Kline. “Over 105 PFD teams, over 350 entries in Individual Events. [The] PFDebate.com National Public Forum Challenge II will feature sixteen of the top Public Forum teams in the country on Sunday, January 11, competing for $1500 in scholarships.”

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Come to Scarsdale!

SCARSDALE, N.Y. — The Scarsdale Invitational — which features competition in varsity and novice Lincoln-Douglas debate, as well as in Public Forum Debate — will take place on February 6 and 7, 2008. Registration for the tournament is now open. You can access the invitation by clicking here.

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Happy New Year!

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Happy New Year from Victory Briefs Daily!

What are your…resolutions for 2009? (Where’s a rim shot sound effect when I need one?)

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Josh Roberts Wins Pinnacle Tournament

HOUSTON, Tex. — The sixth annual Pinnacle Winter Seminar came to a close with its traditional culminating tournament. In the final round, Northland Christian School’s Josh Roberts defeated New Orleans Jesuit High School’s Will Simoneaux on a 2-1 decision. Stephen Babb and David Donnati formed the majority, while Todd Liipfert dissented.

Pinnacle also featured a junior varsity tournament; in the J.V. final round, Dulles High School’s Aymn Kassam defeated Clear Lake High School’s Vinramata Singal to win the title. (more…)

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Greg Goldfarb Wins TOC

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The 1995 Tournament of Champions concluded with a victory for Florida over Alabama when Miami Palmetto High School’s Greg Goldfarb defeated Vestavia Hills High School’s Tyra Williams on a 3-0 decision. The final panel consisted of Fred Robertson, Dr. Delbert Smith, and Barbara Garner. Congratulations are still in order for both!

(At the conclusion of 2008, I’m returning to my ongoing project of insuring an institutional memory for Lincoln-Douglas debate, in which I have been carefully organizing, transcribing, and digitizing materials I have found in the Chellgren Center Debate Office at the University of Kentucky. My thanks to Linda Barker, J.W. Patterson, and Roger Solt for their assistance! More “Time Machine,” more “Ask Cruz,” more fun, and more content in 2009!) (more…)

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