Comments on: Ask Cruz: Volume XVI

By: Thurm

Thurm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:27:02 +0000

The first rule of LD is you do not talk about LD.

By: Jon Cruz

Jon Cruz — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:56:06 +0000

Michael — I have a very early Rostrum that discusses a lot of the discussion on “rules” and “theory” from Dale McCall, Richard Sodikow, and other early thinkers in the event. I’ll transcribe some of the articles in the near future.

Or…if Cherian can digitize it, he can be my guest. :o)

By: Cherian

Cherian — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:12:18 +0000

@michael: That would be fun to see. We have archives of the Rostrum that far back in print. When things settle down in the office, I’ll see what I can dig up and either put it on the NFL website or have Jon do something fun with it. The current online archive only goes back to ‘94.

By: quinn olivarez

quinn olivarez — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:22:55 +0000

michael the rules for ld, i believe, can be located on the nfl website.

By: Cherian

Cherian — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:54:53 +0000

jess was actually the poster child for nfls in the late 90s. she won expository as a sophomore, lost in finals of ld as junior, and won fx as a senior. arguably, debate was the event she was worst at :)

By: Rebar Niemi

Rebar Niemi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:32:04 +0000

all i know is that the NFL ballot says i don’t have to defend any absolute claims, only on balance.

By: michael mangus

michael mangus — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:38:14 +0000

prom is for little eichmanns.

a question: when crossfire/ted turner/public forum debate was introduced the nfl published an event description, rules etc. has anyone been able to dig through the rostrum archive to find a similar initial document for LD? i’m interested purely as a matter of history (although im sure some people would love to finally have rules!!)

By: Paul G.

Paul G. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:15:14 +0000

If my memory serves me correctly, I believe Jessica Bailey would also fit in the category of a successful LD debater crossing-over into other events. In 1999, she was one of the top circuit debaters and then won NFL’s in extemporaneous speaking.

By: Mo Sahoo

Mo Sahoo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:11:39 +0000

:/ Go to TOC’s cuz its probably the same weekend.

By: maeshal

maeshal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:12:39 +0000

you should ghost auto-qual to the TOC