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.
The Lincoln-Douglas Wording committee has developed a variety of potential resolutions for the 2022-2023 season. Member students and one chapter advisor per active school will vote for each topic one week prior to the topic release date. Topic voting for the September/October topic opens August 1.
See the full details at https://www.speechanddebate.org/topics/.
2022 September/October
- Resolved: The United States ought to implement a single-payer universal healthcare system.
- Resolved: The United States should legalize the sale of human organs.
- Resolved: The United States ought to ban the use of germline genetic engineering in humans.
2022 November/December
- Resolved: The People’s Republic of China ought to prioritize environmental protection over economic growth.
- Resolved: Singapore’s Ethnic Integration Policy is unjust.
- Resolved: The Republic of Korea ought to abolish military conscription.
2023 January/February
- Resolved: Justice requires open borders for human migration.
- Resolved: The United States federal government’s plenary power over Indigenous Nations ought to be substantially limited.
- Resolved: The European Union has an obligation to accept climate refugees.
2023 March/April
- Resolved: In the United States, municipal governments ought to adopt participatory budgeting.
- Resolved: In the United States, public K-12 schools ought to eliminate academic tracking.
- Resolved: The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ought to be term-limited.
2023 National Tournament
- Resolved: It is unethical for individuals to consume the meat of non-human animals.
- Resolved: Deterrence is a morally just function of punishment.
- Resolved: Government employees have a moral obligation to leak classified information to address injustice.
The 2022 NSDA National Tournament Lincoln-Douglas Debate topic is, Resolved: Radicalism is preferable to incrementalism to achieve social justice.
A total of 401 coaches and 832 students voted for the resolution. The winning resolution received 36% of the coach vote and 41% of the student vote.
The 2022 NSDA National Tournament Public Forum debate topic is, Resolved: The United States should establish a comprehensive bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan.
A total of 389 coaches and 851 students voted for the resolution. The winning resolution received 50% of the coach vote and 50% of the student vote.
Congratulations to Sage Hill's Max Perin for winning the 2022 Tournament of Champions. In finals, Max defeated Harker's Anshul Reddy on a 2-1 decision (Abhyankar, Bukowsky, Davidson*). Max was also the top seed.
Congratulations to everyone who competed at the TOC, especially all the seniors!
Full results and pairings can be found here.
The 2022 National Catholic Forensics League Lincoln-Douglas debate topic is, Resolved: States should lose claims to international sovereignty if they abuse their citizens' human rights.
http://www.ncflnationals.org/NCFL2022/index.html
The 2022 April Public Forum debate topic is, Resolved: Japan should revise Article 9 of its Constitution to develop offensive military capabilities.
A total of 514 coaches and 949 students voted for the resolution. The winning resolution received 64% of the coach vote and 59% of the student vote.
Congratulations to Millard North's Nathan Liu for winning the 2022 Milo Cup at Millard North. In finals, Nathan defeated Lincoln North Star's Joel Henson on a 3-0 (Casas, Johnson, Rao). Additional congratulations to Joel for being top speaker.
Full pairings and results can be found here.
Congratulations to Harker's Deven Shah for winning the 2022 California Invitational at UC Berkeley. In finals, Deven defeated Sage's Max Perin on a 2-1 (Krauss*, Kuffour, Ramireddy). Congratulations to Sequoia's Alyssa Sawyer for being top speaker.
Full pairings and results can be found here.