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NSD RELAYS is back!!For those of you who do not remember, NSD Relays is a segment we started last year with incoming and senior staff members who share compliments and memories to each other. It is one of the...

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Lincoln Douglas Tournament Results

Apex Academy’s Dylan Burke Champions Marlborough

Congratulations to Apex Academy’s Dylan Burke for championing the 2020 Marlborough Spring Championship. In finals, Dylan defeated Harker’s Madison Huynh on a 2-1 decision (Philips, Rai, Rosenthal*)...

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Oak Hall’s Kumail Zaidi Champions Berkeley

Congratulations to Oak Hall’s Kumail Zaidi for championing the 2020 Cal Berkeley Invitational. In finals, Kumail defeated Harvard-Westlake’s Alexandra Mork. Additional congratulations to Alexandra...

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West Des Moines Valley’s Animesh Joshi and Isabella Nadel Co-Champion Millard North

Congratulations to West Des Moines Valley’s Animesh Joshi and Isabella Nadel for championing the 2020 Milo Cup at Millard North. In semifinals, they defeated Hill’s Nethmin Liyange on a 2-1 decision...

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Success Academy’s Tajaih Robinson Champions Harvard

Congratulations to Success Academy’s Tajaih Robinson for championing the 2020 Harvard Tournament. In finals, Tajaih defeated Montgomery Blair’s Peter Zhang on a 2-1 decision (Bhatt*, Scopa, Sussman)...

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Houston Memorial’s Andrew Qin Champions the Harvard Round Robin

Congratulations to Houston Memorial’s Andrew Qin for championing the 2020 Harvard Round Robin. In finals, Andrew defeated American Heritage’s Peregrine Beckett on a 2-1 decision (Garber, Kaczmarek, Ryan*)...

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Santa Monica’s Rex Evans and William G. Enloe’s Tej Gedela Co-Champion Stanford

Congratulations to Santa Monica’s Rex Evans and William G. Enloe’s Tej Gedela for championing the 2020 Stanford Invitational. In semifinals they defeated Harvard-Westlake’s Andrew Gong on a 3-0...

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A Statistical Analysis of Side-Bias on the 2020 January-February Lincoln Douglas Debate Topic by Sachin Shah

Over the course of the 2018-2019 season, a pattern of negative side-bias was statistically observed across that year’s topics. The 2020 January-February topic provides an opportunity to ascertain if the negative side...

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Harvard Westlake’s Nathan Russell Champions Peninsula

Congratulations to Harvard-Westlake’s Nathan Russell for championing the 2020 Peninsula Invitational. In finals, Nathan defeated Dougherty Valley’s Kabir Dubey on a 2-1 decision (Dille*, Jalan, Sudesh)...

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Debate Commentary Lincoln Douglas NSD Update Staff

Answering Ks with Katherine Fennell

Looking for introductory instruction or a review on responding to the K? NSD staff member and Philadelphia Assistant Co-Director Katherine Fennell utilizes a popular Kritik from the 2017-Jan/Feb Topic to illustrate a...

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A Statistical Analysis of Side-Bias on the 2019 January-February Lincoln-Douglas Debate Topic

A Statistical Study of Side-Bias on the 2019 January-February Lincoln-Douglas Debate Topic by Sachin Shah Introduction Due to the strong interest in the September-October and November-December side-bias studies, a...

February 16, 2019

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A Strategic Response to Resource Disparity- Stephen Scopa

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Intentional and Functional Models of Judging by JP Stuckert

Intentional and Functional Models of Judging Within academic and public spheres, government officials are often conceptualized in two different ways. On the one hand, a functional approach to these officials regards...

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