The NDT and the Coronavirus

Ah yes – talking through a highly stressful, public health issue that imperils end of the year tournaments, just what this blog was created for. Let’s hash it out. First, I love the NDT. It is my favorite tournament of the year. I assuredly would not be a debate lifer

Texas '20 Takes

You give some heartfelt advice about a convenient service in exchange for no money and everyone ribs on you. I guess I only get to talk about debate. The message was clear: Dance, debate takes monkey, dance! 1. Cards from the blog First the Harvard roast, then outlasting http://policydb8.

First Semester '19/'20 Wrap-Up

Alright losers here we are again at the end of another semester and it is time for me to tell you why all your arguments are bad. Going to do it loudly and in public and get people all riled up.

Harvard '19 Reax

1. The field is wide open? So far three different teams have won majors (Wake EF, Cal FG and Kansas BD). Not only that but there have been six different teams in finals (Cal NR, NU JW and Emory GS being the other three). Six different teams in the finals

Let's Talk About Tournaments

Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend. I wanted to use this post to talk about running tournaments while things are fresh in my mind. I would love to know what other people think. 1. Division of Time A debate needs to take about 3 hours from when the

GSU '19 Reax... in Space

We are back! We really have gotten ourselves into a pickle with this one. At Kentucky we have new coaches and new debaters which really made GSU fly by for me as we learned to work together and had a lot of folks experiencing their first debate tournament ever. But

Rest of the 2010 Poll

Top 5 coaches of the decade Who had great teams? In what numbers? Across how much of the decade? These are pretty obvious questions to ask when trying to come up with a list. Another big thing I considered was how many coaches could duplicate their successes with similar budgets

The Best College Debaters of the 2010's (in a variety of categories)

There are a lot of ways to approach a question like this. I don’t think there is a clear correct method. This is a more challenging question than the best partnership one because the field of potential answers is much larger (people do work across multiple partnerships). I can

Top 10 College Teams of the 2010's

A walk down memory lane.

Mikaela Malsin: Thoughts on the College Topic Process

Guest post by Mikaela Malsin, topic committee member.