Tag: BP

  • Competitive Debate is not in the Hands of Educators

    The biggest issue facing the Tournament Debate Regime around the world is that they willfully exclude the educational perspective and also work to exclude educators from participating in the creation and administration of debate events. The biggest shock during the pandemic is that debate tournaments continued, unimpeded through online means. There was no discussion and…

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  • The Irish Times Debate in New York

    Irish Times clock on the new building at Townsend Street, Dublin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is our second time hosting the Irish Times debate champions in New York. We were very pleased that the NPDA and the Times chose us as the anchor point for the start of this tour. The debate we had was…

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  • Championship Debates from the Northeastern US

    Here they are all together for your viewing pleasure, the elimination debates from the recent Northeastern Universities Debating Championships (NEUDC). Semifinals Finals There is a quarterfinal video, but for whatever reason, it always has an error or some problem when I upload it. It will eventually appear on this post, so keep an eye out…

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  • University of Vermont Final Round Video

    there are more videos coming, but let’s start with the final round. Motion: THB that black actors, comedians, musicians, and other public figures should not use the n-word. Opening Government: Portland State University Opening Opposition: St. John’s University, New York Closing Government: Cornell University Closing Opposition: Cornell University The performance of each team was heavily…

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  • US Nationals 2010: Preface

    Having a coffee waiting to give a judge briefing for an internal University debating competition here in Manhattan. The weather is fantastic. I have Germans sitting to the left of me, and Brits on the right (is this a song reference?). And tomorrow I head off to Denver for my third trip to the US…

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  • Closed Adjudication and the Ballance of Learning

    Things are ramping up toward the white party tonight and the grand final round of WUDC 2010. Great tournament and great people. Been thinking a bit about the final closed rounds. Closed adjudication is something we rarely, if ever do in the Northeast BP region of the United States. I have usually been against it,…

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  • Rejecting the “Righteous Four”

    Doing some last-minute preparation before our departure for New Haven in the morning for the Yale IV, which generally involves printing out maps, train schedules, hotel confirmation numbers and tax exemption forms. Prepping for a tournament is pretty easy after doing so many so close together – one of the things about adjusting to BP…

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  • Expert Adjudicators or Extra Adjudicators

    I was having coffee with a good friend of mine and colleague from the debating world recently, when the subject of debate theory came up. My colleague mused about how lucky American debaters were to have such a rich tradition of theory behind what they do. At the time, I disagreed. I like BP/WUDC debating…

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  • Cork Worlds Reflections 1 – Consensus Judging

    The judges assemble as the pairing scrolls by. So today I just uploaded to facebook all my pictures from Cork. And I caught up on some email and other things. A pretty throw away day, except I picked up lunch for my wife and dropped it off on campus for her, which gave me a…

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