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Portland, OR – Lincoln-Douglas debate has recently taken a new direction. A rise in the popularity and success of “pre-fiat” type arguments that speak to the role of the ballot or judge, an increasing number of online resources that aim to provide debaters with the information and tools to better …

Go to NSD Videos to check out the 25 new videos posted! Thanks to Drew Burd, Michael Harris, and the Harrison Debate Team for the videos. Greenhill Round Robin Prelim: Harrison DD vs. PV Peninsula AT   Greenhill Finals: Harrison DD vs. Northland Christian SH   Glenbrooks Octas: WDM Valley …

Posted on NSD Videos (nsdvideos.weebly.com) are 6 new rounds. College Prep CL vs. Harker PR- Quarterfinals of Berkeley La Jolla RP vs. University DB- Quarterfinals of Harvard Lexington PC vs. Bronx Science DM- Octafinals of Emory Northland Christian SH vs. Harker PR Travis AS vs. Northland Christian SH- Octafinals of …

3 new videos! Follow the links below and enjoy! Stanford Finals: PV Peninsula AT v La Jolla RP Berkeley Semifinals: Los Altos SD vs Northland Christian SH Octos UT: Kinkaid TG vs Strake AlTo

Lexington, MA- Congratulations to Collegiate’s Andrew O’Donohue for defeating Harrison’s Danny DeBois (final round at Columbia) to win the 2014 Lexington Tournament. Andrew is coached by Aracelis Biel and Mark Gorthey. Danny is coached by Chetan Hertzig and Henry Zhang. Full panel decisions will be posted once released   Doubles …

                  3 new videos! Follow the links below and enjoy! College Prep CL vs. WDM Valley JS. Judge: Michael Harris. Round 5 of the Glenbrooks Harker PR vs. Trinity Prep MP. Judge: Michael Harris. Round 6 of the Glenbrooks La Jolla RP …

          NSD Videos is back! The first video is of Lake Highland’s Sam Azbel vs. Walt Whitman’s Jessica Levy. Thanks to Ram Prasad for the video. Follow the link: www.nsdvideos.weebly.com to find a full list of past videos. To submit a video, please contact Benjamin Koh, either …

This year, the National Symposium for Debate jettisoned the traditional, lecture-based, resolutional analysis lecture and replaced it with an online discussion. In this video, five NSD staffers-Alex Smith, Jeff Liu, Larry Liu, Elana Leone, and Ari Parker-discuss their thoughts on the 2013 institute topic: Resolved: The United States ought to …

Give a quick glance at the debate community, and you’ll see frenetic brains hissing at each other at high-speeds, kids dressing like mid-career freelance journalists, feverish yet for the most part respectful rivalries, and passion. A whole lot of spitting, heated passion. Amongst our toils, differing opinions, and snarky comments, …

UPDATE: The packets for 2009 – 2013 are available online, but for the convenience of the readers of the Update (and the users of the Time Machine) I’ve posted them here for quicker access. – ed. Since about 2009, most tournament results packets have been posted online in some electronic …

We are now in the final day to purchase a TOC 2013 t-shirt. After tomorrow evening, there will be none available for order. You can buy or check the time remaining at any point at http://teespring.com/tocparttwo. All proceeds go to the Voices Foundation, which supports debaters who otherwise could not …

Ari: This is the first installment of a National Symposium for Debate round-table discussion that aims to treat several issues that have recently received considerable attention in conversations about the state of Lincoln-Douglas debate. The organizing theme of our round table is, broadly, the question of whether LD, as it …

Bethesda, MD/Birmingham, AL/Chicago, IL–Emily Massey, assistant coach at Walt Whitman and 2009 Bronx Champion, and 2011 TOC co-champions Jeff & Larry Liu chat with Ari Parker on the new January/February Lincoln-Douglas Resolution:  Rehabilitation ought to be valued above retribution in the United States criminal justice system. Topic Analysis: 00:26-15:06 Grant’s Question …

Why I Miss the “NC, AC” Roadmap: How Competing Interpretations Has Ruined Theory Debate by Daniel Imas Over the past few years, debate appears to have become esoteric to an unprecedented level. The increasingly common use of dense philosophy and the preponderance of theory debate have certainly contributed to this …

Tycoons of Piety: On constructing a delineation between acceptable and unacceptable argumentation Article by Rebar Niemi A recurring and perniciously unresolvable discussion about debate is the question of what arguments are acceptable and what arguments are not. Norms of acceptability can be educationally premised, based on rules of common conduct …