Predictions….still fail?
28
February
There is an entire issue of the journal Critical Review that is dedicated to the monkeys throwing darts card. Hat Tip -Zavell
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Afghanistan has mega attitudinal inherency
25
February
This is crazy Military General Reportedly Ordered Unlawful Operations Against Members Of Congress
Going for Framework on the Aff: Its hip to be square pt 1
24
February
Debate arguments often operate like fashion trends; they emerge on the scene, gain popularity, that popularity peaks and then declines. Some arguments, like multiple counterplans, then experience a resurgence years later. For some time now it has been very difficult to gain any traction by going for framework arguments on the affirmative vs negative critiques. [...]
Updated Baker Award Standings: Westminster Remains In Top Spot
22
February
With the final two octafinals-bid tournaments of the year in the books, most of the teams at the top of the standings for this year’s National Debate Coaches Association David P. Baker Award for Season Long Excellence have completed their resumes. The top spot in the standings came down to a single ballot in the [...]
Down To The Wire: The Baker Race Enters Decisive Weekend
15
February
With their tournament championship and undefeated preliminary record at Stanford, St. Mark’s Rishee Batra and Alex Miles have put themselves in contention to win the Baker Award. Entering the final maximum-point qualifying tournaments of the season this weekend at Harvard and Berkeley, Westminster’s Ellis Allen and Daniel Taylor remain atop the standings and are the [...]
Some Notes on Impacts
10
February
I’m somewhat baffled by many of the debates I see lately (as well as with the decisions of other judges when I listen to them) with the strange focus on terminal impacts, both in what percentage of time is spent debating them, and then even after a lot of time is spent arguing defense to [...]
Zalmay does it again…
8
February
Call me old school but as good as the Kagan and other hege impact cards have been I’ve always been a Khalilzad fan. Unfortunately too many people felt the Khalizad card was getting old (haters) Luckily for people who like to hear Khalilzad when someone says hegemony he has a new article that can be [...]
BFHS Rap Up
2
February
You can find the results packet, bracket, and all 21 ballots from the final round here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Khalilzad Replies to Mearsheimer
2
February
On the heels of Robert Kagan’s response to John Mearsheimer that Scott mentioned, Zalmay Khalilzad has joined in the fun with a reply of his own to “Imperial By Design”: Shifting to an offshore-balancer role now is premature. Adopting such a strategy would accelerate the rise of multipolarity and increase the risk of conflict among [...]
Top Speaker Rankings Updated To Include Emory
1
February
Along with the Baker Award standings, the rankings of the top individual speakers of the season has also been updated to include results from the Barkley Forum. As before, speakers are ranked in two ways: by their total share of speaker awards and by their average points per round. Remember, these rankings only include tournaments [...]