September 24, 2016

2016 Mid-America Cup at Valley

Main Tournament Round 1 Pairings | Results Round 2 Pairings | Results Round 3 Pairings | Results Round 4 Pairings | Results Round 5 Pairings | Results Round 6 Pairings | Results […]
September 23, 2016

Three Reasons to Prefer Ordinal Judge Preferences (John Scoggin)

Most LD tournaments do mutual judge preferences (MJP) by the category method. Competitors rate judges into categories (often 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6/Strike) from […]
September 20, 2016

Yale 2016 Results Summary

Bracket Speaker Awards Sekou Cisse (Success Academy SC) Lindsey McNamara (William T. Dwyer LM) Nina Potischman (Hunter NP) David Min (American Heritage School – Plantation DM) […]
September 20, 2016

Rankings — Week 2

Premier Debate's ADP and ELO rankings for Week 1! Congrats!
September 16, 2016

Greenhill Fall Classic 2016

  Main Tournament Round 1 Pairings | Results Round 2 Pairings | Results Round 3 Pairings | Results Round 4 Pairings | Results Round 5 Pairings | Results Round 6 Pairings | Results […]
September 13, 2016

Rankings — Week 1

Premier Debate's ADP and ELO rankings for Week 1! Congrats!
September 11, 2016

Loyola Invitational 2016

Main Tournament Round 1 Pairings | Results Round 2 Pairings | Results Round 3 Pairings | Results Round 4 Pairings | Results Round 5 Pairings | […]
September 6, 2016

Small Schools and Disclosure (Lawrence Zhou)

Lawrence Zhou tackles one of the biggest objections to disclosure -- that it disadvantages small schools -- and argues for the exact opposite conclusion.
August 30, 2016

2016-17 Preseason Rankings

Debaters! The season is soon to come underway and we are as excited as you are. Below are the preseason rankings for the season. Expanded methodology coming […]
August 24, 2016

September-October Briefs Out!

The brief for the September-October topic, “Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power,” are out! Thank you to Jonas Le Barillec, Varun Paranjpe, Jong Hak Won, […]
August 9, 2016

Tournament Stats 2015-16

Below you’ll find links to data compiled on all the major tournaments and their participating debaters from the 2015-2016 season. You’re encouraged to download the files, […]
August 3, 2016

What Does It Mean To Vote on an RVI

In this edition of The Meta, Bob rehearses some common arguments for disclosure in more depth by imagining the same debate in a world with disclosure and a world without it. He then moves on to tackle Martin Sigalow's recent blog post in opposition to disclosure.