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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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Worlds Debate, Instant Replay, Tech Fantasies
It’s the middle of the government whip speech in a semifinal debate. A POI is raised about something that the Member conceded. The whip disagrees in his answer to this POI and the questioner turns and points to the back of the room – points at the video camera recording the debate. The whip says,…
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Teaching via Skype: WUDC Basics
Here it is. I probably shouldn’t post it, because I make a lot of mistakes, but I was distracted pretty heavily by the technology I was using. Not the best idea to use some new tech when you are trying to teach, but I wanted to give it a try. Also, I had the audience…
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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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Teaching Keeps You Honest
Image via Wikipedia This week I am teaching my Worlds debate class, and the group I have is pretty impressive. All quite sharp, all very interested, and all excited to learn the art of debate. I started as I usually do by showing the WUDC Koc Worlds Final round – a round that many still…
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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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UK Tour Workshop
We hosted the British touring team this year and they presented an amazing workshop to our New York City debating family. This workshop is titled “Deep Strategy,” and has a lot of great ideas for people at any level of WUDC debating. It was held at the King’s College in the Empire State Building. This…
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American Debate Sediment 3: Argument “theory”
For those unfamiliar with American debating formats, you might be surprised to learn that built into several formats is the ability to engage your opponent on the rules of debate itself. You can argue that the argument your opponent(s) made violates the rules of good debating, hurts either your ability to debate fairly or your ability to…
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American Debate Sediment 1: Student Judging
There are several issues standing in the way of the creation of an American national circuit of WUDC debating. All of them are quite serious issues, and they are going to take a generation to fix. Fix? Not really the right word. Brush away, clear away, something like that. For these are best considered a…
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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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