Not to be outdone by Mia, it was also Luke Stuttgen's birthday, Thursday. Happy birthday, Luke! What better way to spend your birthday than teaching debate!
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Congratulations to St. Louis Park's Leah Shapiro for championing the 2013 West Des Moines Valley Mid-America Cup over Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue. The decision was a 2-1 for Leah (Legried, Hymson, *Melin). Leah is coached by Christian Tarsney and Charles McClung, and Andrew is coached by Aracelis Biel and Mark Gorthey.
The Federal Aviation Administration says you'll be allowed gate-to-gate usage of most of your personal electronics.
Congratulations to Apple Valley sophomores Prince Hyamang and Sophie Ober for closing out Minnesota's JV State Tournament. Prince and Sophie are coached by Chris Theis, Ed Hendrickson, Josh You and David Quinn.
In the Novice division Kiley Eichelberger a junior from Chanhassen defeated Edina Freshman Annie Amen in the final round to win the Novice State title. Congratulations to both debaters. Kiley is coached by Zach Prax
Congratulations to Cypress Woods' Xixiang "Shawn" Xiong for winning the 35th Isidore Newman Invitational! In finals, Shawn defeated Greenhill's Mitali Mathur on a 2-1 decision. Shawn is coached by Heath Martin and Jared Woods. Mitali is coached by Aaron Timmons and Rebecca Kuang. Isidore Newman is a semis bid to the Tournament of Champions.
Congratulations to Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue for defeating Scarsdale's Noah Thaler to win the 2014 Columbia Invitational!
More and more, there appears to be disconnects between judges and debaters on the virtues of using theory as a strategy practice. Theory debate has steadily garnered the reputation as a frivolous, unpleasant practice, labeled as a tool employed to garner “cheap wins,” a “crutch” for those who lack substantive debate skills, and even a mechanism to exclude underprivileged debaters from the activity.
However, I find that a lot of these issues are not inherent either to theory debate or strategic theory debate, but the way debaters run these arguments. While it may occur much less frequently nowadays, excellent theory debate does exist. The goal of this article is to establish guidelines to help debaters improve on theory debate, should they choose to engage in it.
Congratulations to Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue for defeating Scarsdale's Noah Thaler to win the 2014 Columbia Invitational!
More and more, there appears to be disconnects between judges and debaters on the virtues of using theory as a strategy practice. Theory debate has steadily garnered the reputation as a frivolous, unpleasant practice, labeled as a tool employed to garner “cheap wins,” a “crutch” for those who lack substantive debate skills, and even a mechanism to exclude underprivileged debaters from the activity.
However, I find that a lot of these issues are not inherent either to theory debate or strategic theory debate, but the way debaters run these arguments. While it may occur much less frequently nowadays, excellent theory debate does exist. The goal of this article is to establish guidelines to help debaters improve on theory debate, should they choose to engage in it.
The 2019 January/February Lincoln-Douglas Debate Topic is Resolved: The United States ought not provide military aid to authoritarian regimes.https://www.speechanddebate.org/topics/
The 2019 January Public Forum Debate Topic is Resolved: The United States federal government should prioritize reducing the federal debt over promoting economic growth.https://www.speechanddebate.org/topics/
Congratulations to St. Andrew's Episcopal School's Ishan Bhatt for winning the 2018 Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament. In finals, Ishan defeated Harvard-Westlake's Jaya Nayar on a 3-0 decision (Castillo, Balachundhar, Kalghatgi). Congratulations to Ishan for also being top speaker.Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Benjamin Oestericher & Elias Silver from the Bronx High School of Science for winning the 2018 Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament. In finals, Bronx defeated Lake Highland Preparatory School's Anoosh Kumar & Jasper Ou on a unanimous decision (Hardt, Purohit, Urda).The following teams received bids to the 2019 Tournament of Champions:Archbishop Mitty VKArdrey Kell BHBronx OSCorona Del Sol PJDelbarton PMDurham OKEagan PSFairmont Prep ORLake Highland Prep KOLake Mary Prep HMMillburn AZPlano West LRPlano West WAPoly Prep FKRowland Hall ZDTheodore Roosevelt ACCallan Hazeldine from Ardrey Kell High School is this year's Top Speaker.Full results can be found here. Congratulations to all!
On Monday the Glenbrooks announced that they would be implementing decision times in VLD and VCX.
Congratulations to West Broward's Amanda Ciocca and Ethan Massa for closing out the 2018 Tradition Round Robin.Photo Credits: Dan Ciocca
Congratulations to Dulles' Yilin Li and Sofia Chang and Cinco Ranch's Aatreya Tewary and Anuraag Routray for co-championing the 2018 Katy Taylor Tournament.Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Stuyvesant's Claire Liu and Byram Hills' Lindsey Perlman for closing out The 15th Scarsdale Invitational. In semifinals, Claire defeated Millburn's Kevin Wang on a 3-0 decision (Hertzig, Staunton, Zhu) and Lindsey defeated Harrison's Ava Zinman on a 3-0 decision (Coyne, Gao, Hu).Full results and pairings can be found here.Photo Credits: Claire Liu