Not to be outdone by Mia, it was also Luke Stuttgen's birthday, Thursday. Happy birthday, Luke! What better way to spend your birthday than teaching debate!
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Congratulations to St. Louis Park's Leah Shapiro for championing the 2013 West Des Moines Valley Mid-America Cup over Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue. The decision was a 2-1 for Leah (Legried, Hymson, *Melin). Leah is coached by Christian Tarsney and Charles McClung, and Andrew is coached by Aracelis Biel and Mark Gorthey.
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Congratulations to Apple Valley sophomores Prince Hyamang and Sophie Ober for closing out Minnesota's JV State Tournament. Prince and Sophie are coached by Chris Theis, Ed Hendrickson, Josh You and David Quinn.
In the Novice division Kiley Eichelberger a junior from Chanhassen defeated Edina Freshman Annie Amen in the final round to win the Novice State title. Congratulations to both debaters. Kiley is coached by Zach Prax
Congratulations to Cypress Woods' Xixiang "Shawn" Xiong for winning the 35th Isidore Newman Invitational! In finals, Shawn defeated Greenhill's Mitali Mathur on a 2-1 decision. Shawn is coached by Heath Martin and Jared Woods. Mitali is coached by Aaron Timmons and Rebecca Kuang. Isidore Newman is a semis bid to the Tournament of Champions.
Congratulations to Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue for defeating Scarsdale's Noah Thaler to win the 2014 Columbia Invitational!
More and more, there appears to be disconnects between judges and debaters on the virtues of using theory as a strategy practice. Theory debate has steadily garnered the reputation as a frivolous, unpleasant practice, labeled as a tool employed to garner “cheap wins,” a “crutch” for those who lack substantive debate skills, and even a mechanism to exclude underprivileged debaters from the activity.
However, I find that a lot of these issues are not inherent either to theory debate or strategic theory debate, but the way debaters run these arguments. While it may occur much less frequently nowadays, excellent theory debate does exist. The goal of this article is to establish guidelines to help debaters improve on theory debate, should they choose to engage in it.
Congratulations to Collegiate's Andrew O'Donohue for defeating Scarsdale's Noah Thaler to win the 2014 Columbia Invitational!
More and more, there appears to be disconnects between judges and debaters on the virtues of using theory as a strategy practice. Theory debate has steadily garnered the reputation as a frivolous, unpleasant practice, labeled as a tool employed to garner “cheap wins,” a “crutch” for those who lack substantive debate skills, and even a mechanism to exclude underprivileged debaters from the activity.
However, I find that a lot of these issues are not inherent either to theory debate or strategic theory debate, but the way debaters run these arguments. While it may occur much less frequently nowadays, excellent theory debate does exist. The goal of this article is to establish guidelines to help debaters improve on theory debate, should they choose to engage in it.
Congratulations to Harrison's Giovanni Cutri and Ali Ahmad for closing out the 2020 Isidore Newman School Invitational. In semis, Ali defeated Westwood's Pranav Medikonduru on a 2-1 (Matton*, Nails, Evans), and Giovanni defeated Greenhill's Varsha Gande on a 3-0 (Berryhill, Davenport, Shields). Congratulations to Giovanni for also being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to BASIS Phoenix High School's Zachary Jones for winning the 2020 Ridge Debates. In finals, Zachary defeated Perry High School's Joey Antonelli on a 3-0 (Keller, Rivera, Survance). Congratulations to CR North's Julia Walton for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Loyola High School's Andrew Pribe and Braden Masih for closing out the 2020 USC Trojan Invitational. In semis, Andrew advanced over Loyola's Daniel Beck, and Braden defeated Sage's Max Perin on a 2-1 (Ribera*, Moorhead, Mork).
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Peninsula's Rhys Moon and Marlborough's Jocelyn Shek for closing out the 2020 Alta Silver and Black Invitational. In semis, Rhys defeated Orange Lutheran's Aaron Zhang on a 3-0 (Robertson, Torson, Lam), and Jocelyn defeated Claremont's Gordon Krauss on a 2-1 (Ratnasabapathy*, Kuffour, Evans). Congratulations to Basis Independent Silicon Valley's Shreyas Kapavarapu for being top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
Congratulations to Harrison's Giovanni Cutri for winning the Princeton Classic. In finals, Giovanni defeated Princeton's Rohit Lakshman on a 3-0 (Borges, Cukier, Qiu). Congratulations to Scarsdale's Zachary Siegel for top speaker.
Full results and pairings can be found here.
We are excited to announce that registration for VBI 2021 is now open at vbidebate.com!
The 2021 January/February Lincoln-Douglas debate topic is, Resolved: States ought to ban lethal autonomous weapons.
The 2021 January Public Forum debate topic is, Resolved: The NSA should end its surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.