Tune in Tomorrow: College Debate on College Sports Television

Entertainment World has a news story on a television special airing tomorrow night on College Sports Television about college policy debate and the quest for the Larmon Trophy, the championship cup of the National Debate Tournament.
It’s not high school debate, but you might find some striking similarities (and differences) between NDT and TOC, and the […]

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An Invitation to Respond: On Navigating Elitism

Given the recent discussion on round robins and the pursuant disagreement about who should be in them, how they should work, etc… I thought it might be appropriate to have some directed discussion on the relevant issues. At the risk of this becoming an unfortunate flame war, I’d like to see a good dialogue […]

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2004-05 Tournament Info: Valley Mid-America Cup

Sonja Hansen has released to the debate community the official invitation for the Valley Mid-America Cup, to be held October 1-4, 2004 in Iowa.

The Valley Forensic and Debate Society
presents
The Mid-America Cup 2004
Dear Colleague:
The members of the Valley Forensic and Debate Society would be honored by your presence at The Mid-America Cup 2004 on October 1 […]

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On Swift Boats and Hypocrisy

A major issue of this year’s Presidential election is the validity of Senator John Kerry’s military record…. The fact of the matter, quite simply, is that the whole truth is impossible to divine from the available details. That said, I for one don’t care. I believe that John Kerry honorably served his country […]

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Greenhill Round Robin Participants Announced

The following debaters are your 2004 Greenhill Round Robin participants:
David Wolfish – Greenhill School
Tisha Vaidya – Greenhill School
Casey Trombley-Shapiro – Edina
Elizabeth Hadaway – Stephen F. Austin
Justin Hinojoza – James Logan
Hirsh Jain – Mission San Jose
Tara Tedrow – Celebration
Will Leiter – Monte Vista
Katie Poulos – Highland Park (MN)
Mike Mencher - Scarsdale
Douglas Jeffers – Dulles
Daniel Sheehan – […]

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Vassar Round Robin Participants and Judges Announced

The Vassar Round Robin - or, more formally, the Rose & Gray - is a unique tournament held at the start of the season. The tournament features “rising stars,” all showing great potential to become major names on the national circuit. At the time of the tournament, all sixteen participants will be starting their third […]

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Perfecting Your Practice

This summer at VBI, during our speech structure module, we applied a technique that I have found to be effective at dramatically improving one’s extemp speeches. I’d like to tell you about it.
In addition, here’s a collection of some questions from my old “Ask Jesse” forum, a feature on victorybriefs.com prior to the creation of […]

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