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Archive for March, 2006



Scarsdale Takes Great Midwestern Novice Championships

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Results: LD Debate (2005-06) category

IOWA CITY, IA - Congratulations to Scarsdale High School’s Matt Salant and Ken Hershey, who closed out this year’s Great Midwestern Novice Championships! (Ken coached over teammate Nikita Lalwani in the semifinals.) The team had quite a strong weekend overall at this highly competitive tournament.

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Upcoming Coverage of Up-and-Comers

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate category

ATLANTA, GA - The annual National Debate Coaches Association Convention kicks off tomorrow at noon as a prelude to Second Year and Novice National Championships at Woodward Academy. I’ll be making extensive use of my wonderful, fully-functional, global Verizon Wireless card for the purpose of covering a tournament for the first time this weekend, and I’m quite excited. (I’ll be covering all divisions of LD and policy.) VBD is also in the process of finalizing coverage details for the Great Midwestern Novice Championships and the Iowa Round Robin. Now is the time to post good luck to your friends, teammates, students, and family members competing this weekend! A schedule for Woodward as well as a comprehensive list of competitors in LD are available here.

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Topic For Debate: Where are the Orators?

Posted by Bietz in the Topic for Debate category

Today I was searching through the world wide web trying to find a Jesse Ventura campaign speech. I came across a website called AmericanRhetoric.com. I started to poke around a little bit and noticed that they had a ranking of the Top 100 American Speeches. Are we in a time when the Art of great speaking is a lost art? Since we live in a world of soundbytes, where even the majority of television stations do not carry the State of the Union, are we losing the grand, inspirational speeches of yester-year? If so, is that good or bad? If not, what are some of the great or at least important speeches of this generation?

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Crystallize: Riiiiiiight…

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Crystallize category

“Crystallize” appears each non-tournament Sunday and Tuesday. How does it work? I will post a humorous image from the VBD backfiles and turn to you, dear readers, to provide original, creative, and mirthful (or even witty!) captions right in the comments. If you have an image that’s just begging for exposure here on VBD, send it my way!

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Alex Good Crowned Nebraska State Champion

Posted by Jon Cruz in the State Championships 2006 category

LINCOLN, NE - Mike Grassmeyer, via Christian Tarsney, has provided the results of this season’s Nebraska State Tournament. Belated congratulations are in order for Millard North High School’s Alex Good and Lincoln Southwest High School’s Bailey Jones for advancing to finals at the tournament. The two debated in front of a panel of Jenn Larson, Scott Tomsu, and Fred Robertson. On a 3-0 decision, Alex bested Bailey to win the state title.

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Excel Flow Sheet (with Macros) Available

Posted by Jon Cruz in the In Brief category

NEW YORK, NY - It’s back! Now you can download the Excel flow sheet (with macros) right here on VBD.
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Woodward, GMNC, Iowa: Constructing the Fields

Posted by Jon Cruz in the In Brief category

NEW YORK, NY - This is a weekend for the next generation of championship debaters. The Woodward Academy Second Year and Novice National Championships, the Great Midwestern Novice Championships, and the Iowa Round Robin will draw fine debaters from across America to educational weekends of debate. Help us construct the fields by commenting here.
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