Does your speaking speed rival Gift Of Gab’s? Do you set rooms on fire with the speed of your flows? Think you’ve got what it takes to be the fastest MC in debate?
On the heels of “Learning From Hip-Hop: Lessons for Debaters from How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC,” we’re giving debaters the opportunity to show off their MCing abilities.
By popular request I am moving back the deadlines/timetable for the next issue of the last word. So the new timeline looks like this
Article Due Date- Friday Sept 9th- this is the last day submissions can be turned in.
Target Publication Date- Friday Sept 30th.
If you are thinking about submitting something, check below the fold for requested topics.
There hasn’t been the lead in discussion of the disclosure award this year that there was last year, which to me is ironic because I believe the graduating class last year did a much more thorough job of updating their wikis than several schools this year. Part of that may be that I found this year’s wiki to be more cluttered/disorganized than last years which was more bare bones imo.
So this year for the disclosure award I will be throwing in a twist. This year the award will go to a team who shows not only that they were committed to disclosure by putting up their arguments but also to the team who best comes up with a way to organize their wiki to make it easy to use.
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.
To help preserve debate’s institutional memory, The 3NR has begun curating an archive of results from (mostly “national circuit”) high school policy debate tournaments. While we are still in the process of organizing and uploading all of the results that we have compiled over the years (including an extensive collection from Tim Alderete), we wanted to let our readers know about this new resource now. Our goal is to provide as many results packets and elimination round results as possible from previous seasons. With due credit to Phil Kerpen’s old High School Debate Archive site, the archive is extremely bare-bones and simple to navigate. If you have results packets to contribute, please email Bill Batterman.
We are going to record a podcast tonight, so if you have questions post them in the comments.
The more detailed your questions are the more likely they are to get answered. Questions that are super generic like “why is condo good” are most likely to be dismissed. Questions about how to answer specific arguments related to the topic are more likely to get answered, as are questions that give some background info.
For example, someone recently emailed me a question about a K and included the 2 cards the neg won on and their 3 answers and asked why they were insufficient. That is a good question because it gives a lot of ground for discussion. Saying “we lost on security, y?” is much harder to discuss/answer.
We have made two recent upgrades to The 3NR that we hope will improve your user experience.
First, we have installed IntenseDebate, a feature-rich commenting system that includes comment threading, commenter profiles, reputation points, and robust connections to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. You can now log-in to The 3NR using an Intense Debate account, a WordPress.com account, Facebook, Twitter, or OpenID. Victory Briefs Daily has been using IntenseDebate for several weeks and the user experience is excellent. Even if you don’t make use of any of the new features, the IntenseDebate system should make for a more elegant commenting experience for all of our users.
Second, we have begun caching the site to increase its responsiveness and cut down on the time it takes to load pages. Our goal is to eliminate downtime and ensure that our content is always available when our users need it. If anyone notices any problems with the site during this transition, please let me know — bill@the3nr.com.
Thanks for your continued support.
The New York Times raves that season two is “the most satisfying, coherent story arc of any [high school debate podcast].” TV Fanatic “didn’t think it would be possible to surpass season one, but season two is proving us wrong.” Muhaddisah Batool of In Real Life agrees that “Season two is 10 times more exciting than last season.”
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