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Archive for March, 2005

New to the VBI Staff: Glenn Prince

Victory Briefs is pleased to announce that Glenn Prince will be joining us on staff this summer at VBI@UCLA.
Glenn is the graduate debate assistant at the University of South Carolina. This past year, his teams won the National Parliamentary Debate Tournament of Excellence (”the NDT/TOC of college parli”) and were semifinalists at the National […]

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Attending Woodward This Weekend?

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Site News category

For those attending the 2005 Second Year and Novice National Championships hosted by Woodward Academy this weekend, be on the lookout for Liz Eggleston, Julia Lovett, and Sonia Sujanani. The intrepid trio will be serving as our VBD guest correspondents for the weekend, reporting in with results and photographs after the tournament.
So, if you’re spending […]

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TOC Advisory Committee Announces At-Large Bid Recipients

Posted by Ryan Hamilton in the Tournament of Champions 2005 category

The TOC Advisory Committee has formally alerted the coaches of students who applied for and received at-large bids today via e-mail. Among the confirmed at-large qualifiers:
Sam Abba (Des Moines North, IA)
Ben Balter (Glenbrook North, IL)
Justin Becker (Hendrick Hudson, NY)
Chris Bennett (Brophy Prep, AZ)
Corbin Cass (Highland Park, TX)
Jeremy Dudley (Mayde Creek, TX)
Loren Eastlund (Highland […]

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It’s…”Jack!”

Posted by Jack McFarland in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate category

Hello all. My name is Jack McFarland. I attended Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and graduated in 2004. I went to Atlanta Nationals and Salt Lake City Nationals in student congress and LD, respectively. I’ve also dabbled in policy and just about every speech event available. Yeah, […]

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Decrying the Egregiously Formulaic

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Interviews category

Where to start? He won the Glenbrooks, the MBA Round Robin, the Greenhill Round Robin, Harvard, and Newark (the latter for three years in a row). He was runner-up at St. Mark’s. He was top speaker at Big Bronx, St. Mark’s, and the TOC. He won awards at Emory, Stanford, and Wake Forest, just to […]

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A Unique Take on the “Non-Unique”?

Posted by Larry McGrath in the Neat Things By Larry category

The non-unique response has been around forever in debate it seems. It would be hard for me to find a single round this year that I have judged, in which I didn’t hear one of the debaters say “non-unique.” I wanted to comment on this pretty common response. Too often it becomes an argument on […]

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And Now, a NCAA Bracket Update

Posted by Bietz in the Site News category

Here is an update of the VBI NCAA Bracket. After the name is the highest postion this individual can finish. After that is the percent chance they have of falling into that position at the end of the tournament. I have included all of the individuals who can finish in the top […]

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