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.
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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.
Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Zion Dixon for winning the 2022 Harvard National Forensics Tournament. In finals, Zion defeated Lake Highland Prep's Ayman Badawy on a 3-0 (Bhatt, Hsu, Melin). Additional congratulations to Zion for being top speaker.
Full pairings and results can be found here.
Congratulations to Plano East's Jay Namdhari for winning the 2022 Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational. In finals, Jay defeated Southlake Carroll's Pranav Kaginele on a 3-0 (Andrews, Agho-Otoghile, Pulver). Congratulations to Memorial's Daniel Xu for being top speaker.
Full pairings and results can be found here.
Congratulations to Hawken's Emma Blemaster for winning the 2022 Pennsbury Falcon Invitational. In finals, Emma defeated Ridge's Vikram Saigal on a 2-1 (Combs*, Bryant, Reif). Congratulations to Hawken's Zayd Haufe for being top speaker.
Full pairings and results can be found here.
Congratulations to Strake Jesuit's Zion Dixon, Jet Sun, and Karan Shah for closing out the 2022 Golden Desert Debate Tournament at UNLV. In semifinals, Zion defeated West Des Moines Valley's Shreya Joshi on a 2-1 (Mishra*, Halverson, Meza). Additional congratulations to Zion for being top speaker.
Full pairings and results can be found here.
Congratulations to San Mateo's Yesh Rao for winning the 2022 Columbia University Invitational. In finals, Yesh defeated Nashua HS South's Enya Gu on a 2-1 (Wang*, Etienne, Natchukuri). Congratulations to Lexington's Arun Kodumuru for being top speaker.
Full pairings and results can be found here.
Congratulations to Lexington's Brett Fortier for winning the 2022 Barkley Forum for High Schools. In finals, Brett defeated Ayala's Adam Mimou on a 3-2 decision (Bietz*, Timmons*, Alston, Huston, Willoughby). Congratulations to Peninsula's Rhys Moon for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
The 2022 March/April Lincoln-Douglas debate topic is, Resolved: In a democracy, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy.
A total of 586 coaches and 1,257 students voted for the resolution. The winning resolution received 41% of the coach vote and 39% of the student vote.
The 2022 March Public Forum debate topic is, Resolved: In the United States, the benefits of increasing organic agriculture outweigh the harms.
A total of 593 coaches and 1,388 students voted for the resolution. The winning resolution received 54% of the coach vote and 47% of the student vote.