Season 1, Episode 14 — 2010-04-06
Update: 2010-09-30
Description
This episode centered around questions from readers and includes the following topics:
- Woodward Tournament Review: Disclosure Award, Division Eligibility, Scott’s Absence
- Announcement: Will Repko Podcast at the NDCA
- Next Year’s Topic: What generic counterplans will be popular? What generic critiques will be popular?
- Roy’s Topic Idea: Forcible regime change in Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba
- More Tabulation Discussion: Should undefeated teams that are due the same side debate each other in round 6? Should the Woodward Tournament adopt the Challenge format for elimination rounds? Other tweaks: high-high rounds, MBA system (opponent wins + high-low points)
- Return To The Game: What would Scott/Roy do differently if they came back and debated again?
- Today’s Debaters: What do they do better and worse than previous generations?
- Preparation For The TOC: Risk Aversion, Strategies, Flexibility, etc.
- K Preparation For Dummies: Preparing to go for a K if you’re a “policy” debater (and vice versa)
- Judge Adaptation: Do people judge differently at the TOC? Should they?
In this episode: Bill Batterman, Roy Levkovitz, Scott Phillips.
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