2008 NFA LD Nationals Debate Final Round Part 4

Final round NFA LD Nationals 2008

Affirmative (Senior, Spencer Harris from Drury University) wins on a 5-0 decision over the Negative (Sophomore, Jessica Furgerson from Western Kentucky University).

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Education

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• nfa
• ld
• debate

[collinandlindsay]

i am in LD debate and have done CX debate and they are doing CX

[iliketrains76]

This is CX debate, but it IS, if in label alone, LD-Policy debate in NFA. Honestly, i joined the NFA after years of high school policy and thought of it as "1-man policy where people spoke slower and didn't like kritiks." I think there are a lot of criticisms of this round based upon its appropriateness to a particular league or style.

[clorozkillsgerms123]

holy crap i wanted to do LD but now i don't... i just don't get it i know its based on values and stuff but i ergh i don't know how to explain it

[iliketrains76]

Just to be clear, this is LD-POLICY, which is distinct from a values debate. Since it is the debate over the merits of a policy, it lacks much of the values analysis that might be seen in high school LD values debate. It is research intensive and based around policy analysis rather than value.

[politicaldebauchery]

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English literature teaches one to seperate whole words instead of firing them off into a hellish complexity of hard pauses and blurred sounds.

[iliketrains76]

I agree wholeheartedly that their manner of speaking is akward and unnatural. I'll go further and say that it's the product of putting out a multitude of points rather than solid, defensible, or developed claims. But at the end of the day, I know what they're saying, they know what they're saying, and the judges do, too. So despite what literature teaches us, ideas were communicated. A good debater adapts to their opponent and judge so their arguments are evaluable. You object to their style.

[0thatme]

Those presidential debates don't require you to give your entire case as well as rebuttals in 13 minutes total. Also, it is a reasonable speed to talk at in this case, as the judges can understand it perfectly and there isn't a good reason to talk slower.

[floridapride09]

she is not even going that fast either

[jchou71]

People, this isn't even that hard to understand what she is saying. She's speaking fast, but the human ear can take in information faster than one can say it. Also, the audio quality isn't bad.

[xXReagan84Xx]

both of them are excellent readers not speeding just quick

[floridapride09]

People relax the world will not explode because spreading is common place in LD. Debate is a game, let it evolve as it may don't go running and crying that spreading and policy arguments in LD are ruining debate, it's just a game!

[Jockey701]

why are they spreading? I really don't think spreading works only in fast-circuit policy. But in LD?

[logic33157]

Sorry but audio quality is horrible...i cant hear anything

Spreading...why?

[steveo26s]

Neg has the burden of proof...she could have done better but not been able to disprove the aff case and so he wins