Gearing Up: Workshop and Coaches Meetings
September 19, 2006 – 2:25 pm by: Nick BubbOn Saturday the WDCA will offer a very affordable season opening workshop. Workshops will be offered on many topics related to policy debate including but not limited to, negative strategy and theory, topic specific arguments, advanced disadvantages, topicality, flowing, and many other topics. The workshop will also offer an advanced seminar, which has in the past been taught by Shrikanth Reddy, Bill Batterman, and Kevin Thom. Sessions will also be offered for Public Forum and Lincoln Douglas debate - so there should be something for everyone. To get more information and to register, surf over to http://www.wdca.org.
During the first two sessions, the WDCA will also hold its fall business meeting. Many topics will be discussed, the novice topics and the calendar will be approved, and any remaing issues before the season will be taken care of. If you have an interest in helping debate grow in Wisconsin, attend the Coaches Meeting! Information on this can also be found on the WDCA web site. The link is above.
Conveniently, the WFCA is also hosting its fall business meeting on the same day, in the same location (Ripon College), but later in the afternoon. Many topics there will also be discussed, including but not limited to: eliminating LD as a spring category, standarizing the timing of categories (more on this in the comments), and various other issues. Again, if you're interested in seeing forensics grow in WI, please come to the meeting. To attend either meeting, you don't have to be a head coach or a member. (You do, however, need to be a member or a head coach in order to vote).
UPDATE: Bill Batterman will be teaching the Advanced Seminar. Also, Nick Bubb and Brian Samuelson will be presenting a demo LD debate. I am formally starting a rumor that unlike Star Wars, I will not go out like Obi Wan.
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The category timing standarization would be as follows: play acting and group interp move from 12 to 10 minutes. Solo Acting moves from 8 to 10. That's the jist of the proposal. Full information can be found on the WFCA's web site (category committee report):
http://www.wfcaforensics.org
Uniform rules between WFCA and WHSFA are also planned to be discussed. This will eliminate some of the more notorious discrpencies between the organizations, such as the use of a chair in solo acting (allowed in WHSFA, but not WFCA) and a huge discrepency on Oratory (Note cards and 8 Minutes in WSHFA, no notes and 10 minutes in WFCA).
By Nick Bubb on Sep 19, 2006