Where Are You Staying for Nationals?

GRAPEVINE/COLLEYVILLE, TX - Now that plans are finalized, and Nationals is but weeks away, I’ll ask again: where are you staying for Nationals? (If you’re still looking for room shares, the The Victory Briefs Exchange is a perfect place to network.)

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Nationals: A Sense of the Judges

NEW YORK, NY - Nationals — the culminating forensics tournament of the season — is only a few weeks away. Victory Briefs Daily would like to help the qualifiers and their coaches get a better sense of who will be making up the judging pool. Who are you bringing to judge? How does that person judge rounds?

To those attending Nationals, we strongly encourage you to contribute your judging paradigms to the VBD Paradigm Archive. (Said archive will soon have a new and improved home.) If you’d like to have your paradigm appear in the archive, please send it to Jon Cruz.

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Caitlin Halpern is NCFL Champion

CHICAGO, IL - Congratulations to Scarsdale High School’s Dave Salant and W.T. Woodson High School’s Caitlin Halpern for advancing to the final round of the NCFL Grand National Tournament! One of the nation’s oldest major Lincoln-Douglas titles, the tournament lasted two days. The final round itself was adjudicated by five critics, who, on a 3-2 decision, awarded the national title to Caitlin. Congratulations to both!

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The Cat Nats Report: Clearing to Outrounds

CHICAGO, IL - Mike Bietz, Nick Bubb, Missy Stertzbach, and I have posted lists of those who have cleared in every event. IE codes are liste by section for the first outround. Outrounds in both Lincoln-Douglas and policy debate begin early tomorrow morning; the pairings for double-octafinals will be posted by the second flight of LD. (Subsequently, all outrounds pairings will be posted live as they are announced at each meeting.)

Want to help crack the codes? Post what you know here. Congratulations to those who have cleared!

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Good Luck to Those Competing at the NCFL!

CHICAGO, IL - Be sure to wish the best of luck to your friends, teammates, students, and family members!

To those competing: If you would like to share your code with VBD so we can meaningfully report the outrounds, please post a comment here or find Jon Cruz (at LD), Mike Bietz (at policy), or Nick Bubb (at policy). Feel free to post codes from any event. Bietz and I will be reporting live from outrounds in every event on Sunday.

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The Cat Nats Report: Final Details

CHICAGO, IL - On Saturday, Lincoln-Douglas debate will take place at Wilmette’s Loyola Academy. Policy debate will take place at the Chicago Hilton and Towers. Student Congress will take place at St. Ignatius College Preparatory School. Extemporaneous Speaking will take place at De La Salle Institute. The remaining individual events will take place at De Paul University and Roosevelt University. (The latter four sites are located in Chicago proper.) All outrounds will take place at the Chicago Hilton and Towers on Sunday. (We will be covering LD and policy on Saturday.)

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Chetan Hertzig: What It Was Like to Win the NCFL

CHICAGO, IL - We had multiple requests for a vintage piece by Doug Lieb, in which the past NCFL top seed gives some advice on debating at the tournament. Now I’d like to fulfill another frequent request: the reposting of another vintage piece, in which past champion Chetan Hertzig reflected on what it was like to win the title in 1998. Aspiring to win the tournament this weekend? Hertzig may have some advice for you.

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