Fort Lauderdale, FL — The LD wording committee has released a second list of draft topic areas […]
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(Updated) LD Wording Committee Releases First Round of Topic Drafts, Seeks Input
Fort Lauderdale, FL — The LD wording committee has released an initial list of draft topic areas and is seeking constructive public input. This is list consists of initial drafts of topics advanced through Monday Afternoon. These topics are extremely preliminary and largely based on the wordings submitted to the committee by NSDA members. These topics should be seen as starting points […]
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NSDA Nationals LD Codes
Victory Briefs is hoping to make the pairings for LD at NSDA Nationals easier to read and centralize information concerning competitor and judge codes. Please fill out the following form with any information that you have concerning judge and competitor codes at NSDA Nationals! We’ll release all the information as it comes out in a […]
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Insights in Instruction: Teaching Top and Novice Lab with Marshall Thompson
Last week, Victory Briefs released as part of its Curriculum Corner series a video interview with VBI staff Devane Murphy where he told us about his teaching methods, practices, and philosophy. Today, we’re continuing the series with a video interview with the VBI Director of Lincoln-Douglas Debate Marshall Thompson. Marshall is a former Walt Whitman […]
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Anthony Berryhill Wins The 26th Annual Great American Think-Off
Congratulations to VBI’s Director of Human Resources Anthony Berryhill for earning the title of America’s Greatest Thinker for 2018 by winning The 26th Annual Great American Think-Off. In finals, Berryhill out argued Mark Bland of Virginia that failure plays a larger role in shaping one’s life. Read more about this accomplishment here!
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Lincoln Douglas Debate Bid Tournaments 2018-19
Automatic Qualifier Octafinals at the previous season’s TOC Octafinal Qualifier Apple Valley (MN) Berkeley (CA) Bronx Science (NY) Emory (GA) Glenbrooks (IL) Greenhill (TX) Harvard (MA) Harvard-Westlake (CA) St. Mark’s (TX) Valley (IA) Quarterfinals Qualifiers Blake (MN) College Prep (CA) Florida Blue Key (FL) Grapevine (TX) Lexington (MA) Loyola (CA) Meadows (NV) Presentation (CA) Stanford […]
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Gold Public Forum Qualifying Tournaments 2018-19
Automatic Qualifiers When Competing With Same Partnership: Octafinals at the previous season’s TOC Octafinals at the previous season’s NCFL National Tournament Top 14 at the previous season’s National Speech & Debate Association National Tournament Octafinal Qualifiers Apple Valley (MN) Arizona State (AZ) Berkeley (CA) Blake (MN) Bronx Science (NY) Emory (GA) Florida Blue Key (FL) […]
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Silver Public Forum Qualifying Tournaments 2018-19
NOTE for 2018-19: The non-bid methods of qualifying for the Silver PF division are being revised. This division will feature the international teams plus teams that qualify through an expanded number of metrics. These metrics include – (a) -Obtaining a 5-2 or better record at the previous year TOC in the Gold TOC Division. (b) -Reaching […]
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Preparing for Nationals: An Interview with a National Champion
With NSDA Nationals quickly approaching in just over a week, we thought we’d sit down and ask the most recent NSDA National Champion, Natalie Schaller, about preparing and competing at NSDA Nationals. This continues from an interview we did last year with the 2016 and 2014 NSDA National Champions, which you can find here. Natalie […]
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Curricular Components 7: Dine With Two Minds
Dine With Two Minds. Cause you know Two Minds are better than one. Last year, our first Curriculum Corner post explained a lot of our new curricular elements that we used at VBI in 2017. We’re very pleased with the results of these programs, and so have elected to keep all of these developments for […]
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