So what triggered me to think of intervention’s two levels in the first place was the thus-far entertaining podcast that Bietz, Cruz and the Admiral have been doing for the last couple of weeks. So far their thoughts and conversations have been great fodder for my daily commute, and they haven’t engaged in that annoying [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]