by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 23, 2011 | Strategy
I just received an interesting question on some mandates that will be at a tournament this weekend. I believe this will be instructive, because approaching mandates that seem strange can be a difficult and disorganized task. I will recommend the use of Standards,...
by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 19, 2011 | Featured, Tournaments
On April 8-9 I will be hosting the first annual Fun Tournament, here in Virginia. We have over 30 students registered from four states in attendance and are running TP, LD, and Parli (open to anyone). We are using the flexibility provided by Stoa qualifying rules to...
by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 12, 2011 | Coaching, Featured
Congratulations to Dan Pugh, who just won the National Parliamentary Debate Association’s (NPDA) Novice Nationals!! Dan wrote briefs for Ethos the previous two years and was coached by Isaiah in the Vector Debate Club for three years, where Dan spent 2008/9 and...
by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 8, 2011 | Strategy
Disclaimer: There are no rules in debate strategy, so our answer here is completely debateable. What follows is an argument as to WHY a certain theory is correct. Question from a Debater: “At the past few tournaments, people have run topicality (impacted to a...
by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 7, 2011 | Featured, Parliamentary, Strategy
Zack Voell/Lydia Bode vs. Josiah McPeak/Peter Voell at a recent parli practice. The resolution was: “This house believes that World War 3 is imminent”. Watch and critique (I mean learn… what to not do and what to do). PMC — Zack Voell LOC...
