December 26, 2014

Debate For All: An Intro to Debating Utilitarianism

by Shayne Walton Utilitarianism is a concept brought up by philosophers named John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham in the 1700s and 1800s. The basis of […]
December 26, 2014

Wolf Pack Part 4: Team Utah Redux

In our first installment of the Wolf Pack series, we interviewed Liz Letak with regards to the efforts in Utah to foster more national circuit success. […]
December 19, 2014

Marshall Thompson Hired as PDI Philosophy Director

Marshall Thompson will be the new Philosophy Director for PDI.
December 19, 2014

Davis Labarre wins Strake (TX)

Elims Finals Northland Christian DL def. Westlake DB. Congrats to Davis Labarre for winning the Strake tournament and Drew Burd for reaching finals! Semis Northland DL […]
December 18, 2014

Graham Baker wins Blake (MN)

The Blake tournament takes place this weekend, check back for live results right here!
December 18, 2014

CPS (CA) — Peninsula Closes Out

Tournament Info Location: College Prep School, Oakland Bid Level: Quarters Pool: 119 Entries Last Year’s Result: Loyola CK def Peninsula AJ 2-1 (*Smith, Amestoy, Graham) Pairings […]
December 18, 2014

Coaches Poll Top 25 — December 15

The following are the results of the third Coaches Poll for 2014! Congratulations to Varun Bhave and Pranav Reddy for sharing the title of #1 in […]
December 15, 2014

Free Briefs Out Tomorrow!

Briefs for the January/February topic will be released tomorrow!
December 13, 2014

Millard North closes out Dowling.

Live Results Finals Millard North GB (Grant Brown) and PK (Priya Kukreja) close out. Semis Millard North GB def Oxbridge NV Millard North PK def Theodore […]
December 13, 2014

Isidore Newman (LA)

Live Results Finals Greenhill BE (Bennett Eckert) def. Northland Christian DL (Davis Labarre). Congrats to Bennett Eckert on winning the Isidore Newman tournament! Semifinals Greenhill BE v Greenhill […]
December 13, 2014

Ridge (NJ) – Elims Results

Live Results – Elims NOTE: The tournament calls doubles and octas “Round 6” and “Round 7” respectively. There were only five prelims. Finals Harrison AG vs. […]
December 11, 2014

Topicality and Plans in LD: A Reply to Nebel by Bob Overing

Last week, Nebel argued that topicality is not a voting issue in LD. I offer reasons to reject his view based on fairness and a rejection of his faulty assumptions about LD resolutions and topicality.