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Monthly Archives: January 2011
You Ask, We Answer: Season 2, Episode 7 of The 3NR Podcast
27
January
As promised, the latest edition of The 3NR Podcast centers entirely around reader/listener-submitted questions. With the full crew on board, the discussion covers a lot of ground including email evidence, the way that judges should (and do) balance explanation versus evidence, debating the case against COIN affirmatives, and more. Click on over to podcast.the3nr.com to [...]
Watch Glenbrook North Take On Westminster
27
January
The final round of the University of Michigan tournament will be held on Friday morning at the Marriott Century Center in Atlanta. Featuring a matchup of Glenbrook North’s Alex Pappas and Zack Parker and Westminster’s Ellis Allen and Daniel Taylor, the outcome will have significant ramifications on the Baker Award standings. The 1AC will begin [...]
Help Set Tomorrow Night’s Podcast Agenda
24
January
In addition to the recently-released Special Guest Podcast, we will be recording a pre-Barkley Forum episode tomorrow night. What do you want us to discuss? As always, we’d love to hear your suggestions.
Special Guest Podcast: Affirmative Approaches to Critiques
24
January
The latest edition of The 3NR Podcast features two special guests: James Herndon (Director of Debate Programs and Debate Coach at Emory University) and John Turner (M.A. candidate in Communication and Assistant Debate Coach at the University of Georgia). James, John, and Scott discuss affirmative approaches to debating critiques. Click on over to podcast.the3nr.com to [...]
Baker Award Standings Updated
24
January
The unofficial National Debate Coaches Association David P. Baker Award for Season Long Excellence standings have been updated and are available below the fold. This update includes partial results from the Georgetown Day School tournament, full results from the Lexington tournament, and a few corrections from last week’s version. I will release another update along [...]
New Kagan Hegemony Article
23
January
Has some good cards, including responses to the Mearsheimer article Alderete posted a little while ago Others have. For decades “realist” analysts have called for a strategy of “offshore balancing.” Instead of the United States providing security in East Asia and the Persian Gulf, it would withdraw its forces from Japan, South Korea, and the [...]
Walt Post on History
22
January
Has some interesting points, on Afghanistan Yet this sadly turns out to be no universal law: There is no inexorable evolutionary march that replaces our bad, old ideas with smart, new ones. If anything, the story of the last few decades of international relations can just as easily be read as the maddening persistence of [...]
New Additions To The 3NR Results Archive
21
January
A large number of results packets have been added to The 3NR Results Archive over the past few days. We have about 50 packets in the queue to process and post and will continue adding them to the archive as they are finished. A big thank you to Tim Alderete for his contribution to this [...]
Woodward Tournament Eligibility Questions
20
January
I’ve gotten a bunch of good questions over the last 10 days and to avoid repeating the answer I’ll post them here. Q1- Does patricipation in Middle School Debate Tournaments effect eligibility A– NO. Lots of places have people who debate in a middle school debate league. These tournaments are one day with abridged speech [...]