So now that I’ve talked about the rescued debacle that was the Yale IV tabbing experience this weekend, what’s up with the actual debating style? What happened in the rooms?
Well that’s another story altogether.
Bear in mind that due to aforementioned tab hell, I only saw two rounds; an up bracket round 2 (yes, they power [...]
In high school land, we’ve been using TRPC for well over a decade to run tournaments, and tabroom.com for nearly as long to run speech tournaments. However, there are plenty of us who still know how to do things the Old Fashioned Way. High school coaches have a relatively long tenure in the activity, so [...]
This weekend, instead of my usual jaunt to a high school or high school venue, I went down to Yale for a second time this month for the Yale Intervarsity, a tournament in the Worlds Debating Championships’ British Parliamentary style. I was going to satisfy curiosity — JJB is a huge fan of British Parliamentary [...]
My spellcheck, on writing the Princeton invitation, just corrected “Menick” to “Maniac.”
I was tempted to let it stand.
This year’s Yale Invitational was an exercise to answer the question, “Can Palmer run a major invitational tournament while mostly walking around in a relative fog and running at a rather low level of motivation?” The answer, it appears, is yes. The tournament ran fine, and the crack tab staff did their usual crack thing. [...]