TOC 2008 Archive
2008 TOC Video: Final Round
Posted by Victory Briefs in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, TOC 2008, Videos categorySANTA MONICA, Cali. — Today, VBD Original Videos features the final round of the 2008 Tournament of Champions.
The Kinkaid School’s Becca Traber was on the affirmative and Apple Valley High School’s Chris Theis was on the negative.
The decision was a 6-1 for the negative; the judges were Chris Castillo, Wesley Craven, Jon Cruz, Dave [...]
2008 TOC Video: Los Altos DM vs. Kinkaid BT
Posted by Bietz in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, TOC 2008, Videos categorySANTA MONICA, Cali. — Today, VBD Original Videos features a round between Los Altos’s Daniel Moerner on the affirmative and Kinkaid’s Becca Traber on the negative.
This was a semifinal round at this year’s Tournament of Champions. The decision was a 4-1 for the negative; the judges were Ryan Lawrence, Tom Evnen, Larry McGrath, Dan Meyers, [...]
2008 TOC Video: Elkins AC vs. Apple Valley CT
Posted by Bietz in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, TOC 2008, Videos categorySANTA MONICA, Cali. — Today, VBD Original Videos features a round between Elkins’s Andrew Cockroft on the affirmative and Apple Valley’s Chris Theis on the negative.
This was a quarterfinal round at this year’s Tournament of Champions. The decision was a 2-1 for the negative; the judges were Mike Bietz, Dan Meyers, and Tom Evnen. Evnen [...]
2008 TOC Video: Mountain View DG vs. Walt Whitman CS
Posted by Bietz in the TOC 2008 categorySANTA MONICA, Cali. — Today, VBD Original Videos features a round between Mountain View’s Daniel Garber on the affirmative and Walt Whitman’s Caroline Sherrard on the negative.
This was a run-off round at this year’s Tournament of Champions. The decision was a 3-0 for the affirmative; the judges were Mike Bietz, Tim Hogan, and Liz [...]
Chris Theis Wins the TOC
Posted by Jon Cruz in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Policy Debate, Public Forum Debate, Results, Student Congress, TOC 2008 categoryLEXINGTON, Ky. — This year’s Tournament of Champions concluded with an intense final round between Apple Valley High School’s Chris Theis and the Kinkaid School’s Becca Traber.
Chris Castillo, Wesley Craven, Jon Cruz, Dave McGinnis, Adam Nelson, Liz Scoggin, and Aaron Timmons adjudicated. On a 6-1 decision — Craven dissented — Chris took home the [...]
Live from the TOC: LD Prelims
Posted by Jon Cruz in the TOC 2008 categoryLEXINGTON, Ky. — The Tournament of Champions features seven preliminary rounds in Lincoln-Douglas debate. The first two are preset; the remainder are powered high-low.
LD ROUND 1
Lakeville South CK vs. Scarsdale MH (Wesley Craven)
Walt Whitman JK vs. Analy CC (Wesley Craven)
Scarsdale KH vs. Pace AZ (Michael Mangus)
New Trier BM vs. Apple Valley CT (Michael Mangus)
Scarsdale NL [...]
An Epic Final Round: Watch a Piece of Debate History
Posted by Jon Cruz in the TOC 2008 categoryLEXINGTON, Ky. — I’ve received a tremendous number of e-mails after I uploaded a set of images from the 2003 Tournament of Champions to the VBD Photo Archives. People were very excited to see this blast from the (recent) past.
Well, today I made a little discovery: talk about a piece of debate history! There [...]
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