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28
April
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Do you want to be top speaker at the toc? Part 2- stop cutting cards, start working on craft
27
April
Part 1 discussed in detail how to work on the actual speaking to improve your points, part 2 is going to discuss a few ways to improve the things you are saying. Before doing that I will quickly address some questions I got about part 1.
The Tournament of Champions In The 3NR Results Archive
22
April
The results from every Tournament of Champions since 1995 (XXIV through XXXIX) are now accessible via The 3NR Results Archive. Packets remain missing for 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, and 2008; if anyone has access to these packets (or to results from prior to 1995), please email the author. 1995 — Immigration 1996 — [...]
Top Speaker at the TOC: A History Of The Mark Shelton Award
21
April
This year marks the 40th running of the Tournament of Champions at the University of Kentucky. In the run-up to the tournament, we will be sharing several notes about its history here on The 3NR. First up: the top speaker award. Since 1993, the top speaker award in policy debate at the Tournament of Champions [...]
Podcast: Preparing For The TOC, Part 2
21
April
Scott Phillips and James Herndon are back for part two of their discussion of TOC preparation. This time, the goal is to help students prepare to debate on the negative. How can you prepare topicality arguments to protect yourself against new cases? How does the politics disadvantage fit into your preparation? What counterplans should you [...]
Damien Becomes First School To Win Two NDCA National Championships
19
April
The National Debate Coaches Association National Championships has quickly grown to become one of the most prestigious high school debate tournaments in the United States. Since relaunching in 2006, the NDCA National Championships have brought together the vast majority of the nation’s best policy debate teams for an intense postseason tournament. This year’s champion was [...]
Podcast: Preparing For The TOC, Part 1
15
April
Preparing for the season-ending tournaments? Heading to Lexington in a few weeks for the TOC? The latest episode of The 3NR Podcast is here to help. In part one of a two-part series, Scott Phillips and James Herndon discuss affirmative preparation and strategy. When should you read a new case? What makes a new case [...]
Speaker Point Inflation: Real or Imagined?
11
April
One common request over the past few months has been for an assessment of the effects of the new .1 scale on speaker points in high school debate. With most if not all tournaments now utilizing this system (or its 100-point variant), it is now possible to look back and analyze how the new scale [...]
Georgetown Debate Seminar Releases Hoya Template 1.0
11
April
The Georgetown Debate Seminar over the weekend released the 1.0 version of the Hoya Template, a paperless debate template for Microsoft Word designed by Anton Strezhnev and based on Alex Gulakov’s pioneering Synergy program. The Hoya Template offers several improvements over previous software including a streamlined automatic cite request generator, enhanced speech document functionality, and [...]
Do you want to be top speaker at the toc? part 1
4
April
A few have emailed/posted questions about prep for the toc. Loyal 3nr readers know most every question about how to win the TOC was answered step by step in my pulitzer prize winning series (here, here, here, ). One thing that was not addressed in great detail there was how to become the top speaker [...]