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SDI Faculty Demonstration Debate and Discussion

Bill Batterman — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:38:06 +0000

The Spartan Debate Institute at Michigan State University held its annual Faculty Demonstration Debate this week in East Lansing. With all four- and five-week students in attendance, the debate featured a showdown between faculty members with a combined five appearances in the semifinals of the National Debate Tournament:

Kevin Kallmyer, University of Mary Washington ‘10 — 2010 NDT Semifinalist
Gabe Murillo, Wayne State University ‘07 — 2006 and 2007 NDT Semifinalist, 2007 NDT Top Speaker
Greta Stahl, Michigan State University ‘04 — 2004 NDT Champion, 2002 NDT Semifinalist
Carly Wunderlich, Michigan State University ‘10 — 2010 NDT Champion

Kevin and Carly represented the affirmative and argued that the United States should withdraw its combat forces from Afghanistan in order to maintain hegemony and stabilize both Pakistan and Central Asia. Greta and Gabe countered with several arguments but eventually settled in their final rebuttal on a Midterms disadvantage and takeouts to the affirmative case.

The debate was moderated by Will Repko, the coach of the 2010 National Debate Tournament Champions. Repko has now coached three NDT Champions in the last seven years and is widely regarded as one of the nation’s best debate educators—he uses the demonstration debate to discuss a wide range of strategic and tactical issues with the audience.

The video of the debate is divided into two parts and is available below the fold.

Part One: Intro through 2NC CX

Part Two: 2NC CX through 2AR

Summer Institute Lecture List Updated

Bill Batterman — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:37:35 +0000

The list of freely available lectures from this year’s summer debate institutes has been updated this morning. Lectures from the Dartmouth Debate Workshop and Dartmouth Debate Institute are now being posted as an iTunes podcast and the first four episodes have been included in our list. Lectures from the Spartan Debate Institute will be added soon. If anyone notices missing lectures, please post a comment.

Freely Available Summer Institute Lecture List Updated

Bill Batterman — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:05:11 +0000

The list of freely available lectures from this year’s summer debate institutes has been updated this morning and now includes 49 lectures from four institutes. It would take almost three full days to watch all of these videos. Students and coaches should give a big “thank you!” to Cal, Emory, Georgetown, and Texas for sharing these lectures freely. If any other institutes are sharing their lecture videos online, please post a note in the comments and we will add them to the master list.

Freely Available Lectures From This Year’s Summer Institutes

Bill Batterman — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:45:21 +0000

Several summer institutes are making some or all of their lectures available freely to everyone via their websites or wikis. These videos provide all students—even those not attending a camp—with an incredible resource to help them prepare for this year’s topic. Below the fold, I have aggregated links to all of the lectures that have been made available (to the best of my knowledge). If I missed something, please post a comment and I’ll add it to the list.

This list was last updated on July 28, 2010.

Lectures About The Topic:

Topic Intro—Eric Forslund and Mike Shackelford (CNDI)
Topic Intro—David Heidt (ENDI)
Topic Intro—Will Repko (SDI)
Intro to Japan, Iraq, and South Korea—Kade Olsen & Caroline Harkins (DDI)

Afghanistan—Brittany Cambre (ENDI)
Afghanistan—Seth Gannon and John Warden (Georgetown)
Afghanistan—John Hines (Texas)

Iraq—Ed Lee (ENDI)
Iraq—Kirk Evans (Texas)
Iraq/Kuwait—Michael Antonucci (Georgetown)

Japan—Mikaela Malsin (ENDI)
Japan—Bill Batterman (Georgetown)
Japan—Nick Fiori (Texas)
Japanese Politics Seminar—Kathy Bowen (CNDI)

Kuwait—Ana Nikolic (ENDI)
Kuwait—Daniel Sharp (Texas)

South Korea—Casey Harrigan (ENDI)
South Korea—Nate Cohn (Georgetown)
South Korea—Jane Munksgaard (Texas)

Turkey—Hays Watson (ENDI)
Turkey—Kevin Kallmyer (Georgetown)
Turkey—Ricky Garner (Texas)

Negative Ground On The Topic—Aimi Hamraie (ENDI)

Intro To Hegemony—Professor Stephen Brooks (DDI)
Proliferation and Deterrence—Greta Stahl (SDI)

Lectures About Skills/Preparation:

What Is Debate?—Ken Strange (DDW)

Research Lecture—Andres Gannon and Jacob Polin (CNDI)
Research Tips and Tricks—Dylan Keenan (ENDI)
How To Research—Ed Lee (ENDI)
Cutting Cards Electronically—Alex Gulakov (DDI)

How To Be Top Speaker—Maggie Berthiaume (Georgetown)

Cross-Ex Skills—Melissa Wade (ENDI)

Debating The Aff—James Herndon (ENDI)
2A Terrorism—Kevin Kallmyer (Georgetown)

Negative Strategy—Seth Gannon and John Warden (Georgetown)
The Neg Block—James Herndon (ENDI)
Extending A Disad—James Herndon (ENDI)
Giving The 2N Seminar—Geoff Lundeen (CNDI)

The Final Rebuttals—Seth Gannon (Georgetown)

Impact Assessment—Exploding Traditional Methods—Bill Batterman (Georgetown)
Evidence Comparison—Bill Batterman (Georgetown)

Improving at Debate: The Value of Watching Others—James Herndon (ENDI)

Ethos in Debate—Seth Gannon (Georgetown)

Debating For A Small School—Kevin Kallmyer (Georgetown)

Newcomb’s Paradox—Seth Gannon (Georgetown)

Lectures About Argument Genres:

Kritiks and Kritik Answers—Mike Shackelford and Andres Gannon (CNDI)
How To Answer Critiques Without Knowing What They’re Saying—Nate Cohn (Georgetown)
Critiquing Disads—John Turner (Georgetown)

Debating Topicality—Megan Swenson (ENDI)
Debating Topicality—Seth Gannon (Georgetown)
Debating Topicality—Ben Thorpe (ENDI)
Topicality—Michael Antonucci (Georgetown)

An Introduction To Theory Debating—Bill Batterman (Georgetown)

Introduction To Counterplan Theory—Maggie Berthiaume (Georgetown)

Debating The Case—Nate Cohn (Georgetown)

Impact Turning—Eric Forslund (SDI)

Debating The Politics Disad—Maggie Berthiaume (Georgetown)
Politics Disadvantages—Brett Bricker (SDI)

TOC Finals 2010 Videos

gulakov — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:14:29 +0000

Westminster TA (aff) d. St. Mark’s MB (2-1) *Bricker, Greenstein, Herndon
The negative went for economic growth bad.

Award & RFD

1AR by Ellis Allen from Westminster

2NR by Alex Miles from St. Mark’s

2AR by Daniel Taylor from Westminster

Recordings From Blake, Emory, and Harvard

Bill Batterman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:16:37 +0000

I am finally getting caught up with processing the recordings I have made of debate rounds over the past few months. The following recordings are posted and available:

I will continue to process the remaining recordings and will update this post when they are uploaded to my Mediafire page. As listeners will hopefully notice, I have figured out how to dramatically improve the quality of these recordings while cutting their file size in half. If you downloaded previous recordings and were not satisfied with their quality, please give one of these more recent recordings a try and I trust that you will be happy with the results.

As always, please let me know if you were a participant in one of these debates (or are affiliated with a participant) and you wish for it to be removed from The 3NR. I hope that debaters and coaches continue to find these recordings useful.

Barkley Forum Final Round Video Posted on NFLTV.org

Bill Batterman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:37:35 +0000

A video of the final round of this year’s Barkley Forum for High Schools at Emory University has been posted on NFLTV.org. The round features Glenbrook South’s Richard Day and Will Thibeau taking on the Westminster Schools’ Ellis Allen and Daniel Taylor.

Recordings From The Glenbrooks

Bill Batterman — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:23:42 +0000

Twelve audio recordings from the 2009 Glenbrooks are now available below the fold. The recordings include the six preliminary and five elimination rounds that I judged as well as a “bonus” recording of round seven between Kinkaid and Bronx Science. The debates include six of the top ten teams in the latest TOC Scoreboard Rankings and eleven of the current top 25. As usual, you can access all of the recordings at my Mediafire account. If you are involved in one of the debates and for whatever reason you do not want it posted on The 3NR, please send me an email.

Glenbrooks Round 1 – Montgomery Bell VW vs Hawken EM
Glenbrooks Round 2 – Damien EG vs Rosemount BN
Glenbrooks Round 3 – Cathedral Prep MW vs Kent Denver KM
Glenbrooks Round 4 – Wayzata DM vs Bronx Science PS
Glenbrooks Round 5 – Whitney Young GH vs Oak Park-River Forest HH
Glenbrooks Round 6 – Montgomery Bell HM vs Pembroke Hill BS
Glenbrooks Round 7 – Kinkaid BK vs Bronx Science EM
Glenbrooks Doubles – Bishop Guertin DS vs Highland Park PY
~~Glenbrooks Octafinals – Pembroke Hill HV vs Chattahoochee CR~~
Glenbrooks Quarterfinals – New Trier CS vs Lexington EV
Glenbrooks Semifinals – Westlake BM vs New Trier CS
Glenbrooks Finals – Damien EG vs Westlake BM

Recordings From The New Trier Season Opener

Bill Batterman — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:06:05 +0000

Recordings of the debates that I judged (sans round two—a dead battery prevented that one from being recorded) at the New Trier Season Opener are now available below the fold (including a semifinals debate that I did not judge but nonetheless recorded). As usual, you can access all of the recordings at my Mediafire account. If you are involved in one of the debates and for whatever reason you do not want it posted, please send me an email.

Round 1 – Valley DW vs Vermillion GM
Round 3 – St Marks BM vs Centerville CL
Round 4 – Glenbrook South HJ vs Glenbrook North HP
Double-Octafinals – Dowling BD vs CR Washington CL
Octafinals – Glenbrook South MZ vs Glenbrook North MP
Quarterfinals – Dallas Jesuit DG vs Glenbrook North SS
Semifinals – Harker MP vs McDonogh BR

Recordings From The Greenhill Round Robin and Fall Classic

Bill Batterman — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:30:06 +0000

I have started to record (most of) the debates that I judge with a small digital audio recorder. For the most part, the resulting audio files are relatively small (around 70MB for a complete round) and acceptably clear. While I initially began recording debates for my own purposes (in my infinite geekdom, I like to re-listen to debates that I have judged and RFDs that I have given so that I can improve the quality of my judging), it has become clear after talking with debaters and coaches that there is a very high demand for me to share these files publicly. As a result, I will be uploading them to my Mediafire account and linking to them from The 3NR. I can envision several uses of these recordings:

If you are one of the debaters that has been recorded, you can listen to yourself debate. The benefits of this should be self-evident, but it is especially helpful to listen to yourself in tournament competition.
If you are the coach of one of the teams that has been recorded, you can listen to your students debate. Again, it is particularly helpful to listen to them in tournament competition.
If you are not personally involved in the debates, you can use them as teaching or learning tools. Using these recordings to practice flowing, for example, would be a great way to make your flowing drills more interesting and relevant to the topic.

I’m sure there are other uses—feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.

Finally, an obligatory disclaimer: if you are involved in one of the debates and for whatever reason you do not want it posted, please send me an email. It is not my intention to harm anyone—legally, emotionally, or otherwise. Based on the feedback I received at Greenhill, it seems like most people are on-board with this project. If you’re not, please don’t hate me for trying to be helpful.

Without further ado, five recordings from the Greenhill Round Robin and eleven recordings from the Greenhill Fall Classic are available below the fold.

Greenhill Round Robin

Round 2: Greenhill KP vs. St. Mark’s BM
Round 3: Bronx Science EM vs. Damien EG
Round 4: Damien EG vs. St. Mark’s BM
Round 5: Kinkaid BK vs. Westminster AT
Finals: Glenbrook South DT vs. Damien EG | RFD

Greenhill Fall Classic

Round 1: Bishop Guertin MS vs. UC Lab GR (email if you want this one)
Round 2: Glenbrook North MS vs. Lakeland CD
Round 3: Dallas Jesuit MY vs. Valley DN
Round 4: St. Mark’s BM vs. Homewood-Flossmoor DH
Round 5: Valley DW vs. Carrollton Sacred Heart HS
Round 6: Dallas Jesuit DG vs. St. Mark’s GJ
Doubles: Whitney Young GH vs. Glenbrook South SV
Octas: Carrollton Sacred Heart DG vs. Bronx Science EM
Quarters: Westlake BM vs. Bronx Science EM
Semis: Glenbrook North MS vs. Whitney Young GH
Finals: Westminster AT vs. Whitney Young GH