June 13, 2016

Bennett Eckert wins NSDA Nationals

—From Salt Lake City, Utah— Final Round Congratulations to Greenhill’s Bennett Eckert for winning the 2016 NSDA Nationals tournament and to runner-up Priya Kukreja from Millard […]
June 1, 2016

Unbroken Case Contest Results

Thank you to everyone who sent in submissions to our unbroken case contest! There is no prize, only glory. And now we have the winners! Premier Debate co-Director […]
May 14, 2016

Interview with Nick Steele

The following is a Premier Debate exclusive interview with Nick Steele, your 2016 Tournament of Champions winner. The interview is conducted by Salim Damerdji, the Premier […]
May 10, 2016

TOC Announces 2016-17 Bid Allocation

The following LD debate tournaments are OCTAFINAL qualifiers: Apple Valley (MN) Berkeley (CA) Bronx Science (NY) Emory (GA) Glenbrooks (IL) Greenhill (TX) Harvard (MA) Harvard-Westlake (CA) […]
May 7, 2016

Unbroken Case Contest

For those of us who love to write really creative, cool cases, it’s always a tragedy when the topic or season ends too soon, and a […]
April 25, 2016

Nick Steele wins TOC 2016

Finals Nick Steele from Harvard-Westlake (neg) defeated Felix Tan from Clements on a 2-1 decision with judges Chris Castillo, Chris Kymn*, and Michael Overing. Congratulations to […]
April 23, 2016

Battle for Los Angeles III

Main Tournament Pairings Round 1 Loyola AP & Loyola JO Crossroads NS vs Peninsula KK Immaculate Heart LM vs Marlborough AG Oakwood School – North Hollywood […]
April 11, 2016

Harrison RR 2016

Pods March Pod Cambridge – Paloma O’Connor Millburn – Wesley Hu Newark – Amit Kukreja Ridge – Neha Pai Success – Sekou Cisse April Pod Byram – […]
March 29, 2016

Lincoln Garrett announces TOC At-Large Bids

Congratulations to the following debaters/teams for receiving at-large bids to the 2016 Tournament of Champions. Good luck to everyone! Lincoln Douglas at Larges Accepted—TOC 2016 Apple […]
March 26, 2016

Penn RR

Pairings Round 1 BYE: Loyola John Overing BYE: Lake Highland Prep Neal Kapoor Harrison Kathryn Kenny vs Byram Hills Paul Erlanger Millburn Wesley Hu vs The […]
March 22, 2016

At-Large Data

Help fill out information that will be used while reviewing at-large applications to the TOC. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1catSwzpnsgbytBYbbnBBo0t-dlCo2FaqINZsVHLjsNs/edit Via Mike Bietz: Some members of the […]
March 15, 2016

On Spikes and Bob with a Hint of Norse Gods — Marshall Thompson

About a week ago Bob Overing posted a response to an article that I wrote last year, in which I criticize the way debaters and judges […]