The Jan-Feb topic-induced emotional meltdown count, to my awareness anyway, is now at 4. The NDCA email list decided to explode in a soul-searching Nature of the Organization thread the week leading up to our tournament. Hurrah. The Lexington tournament ran well, apart from the fact that I was dreadfully sick and lost my voice. [...]
The last post certainly stirred up the world a bit, but it didn’t unfortunately put together enough of a consensus to produce action in our nebulous, poorly governed and disunited community. That’s a shame, because students will suffer for it. The objections to a topic change came down to two categories. Some defenses are largely [...]
I went to Greenhill for the first time last weekend, as the proud coach of the eventual tournament champion no less. Winning the first time around isn’t a bad way to begin with a tournament, I have to say. L’Etoile debated 19 times over the course of the round robin and the tournament, and we [...]
We’d like debate to be fair. We’d like our tournaments to be maintained and run impartially, distantly, and to follow the covenants made with the attendees ahead of time, both those spelled out and those generally understood. We’d like students to advance or not based on the merits of their arguments and the quality [...]
I made some charts of the (Varsity) LD speaker points at Yale and the Bronx: