NCFL Pictures Have Landed
Posted on May 30, 2007 – 12:23 pm by: Nick Bubb
Enjoy the fantastic and invigorating pictures from the heart of Texas. And no, I will not stop making space comments. Check out the link here.
Houston, we have forensics students coming
Posted on May 17, 2007 – 7:54 pm by: Nick BubbThe Catholic National Forensics League’s Grand National Tournament will be descending to Mission Control next weekend. Wisconsin Forensics Daily plans to be there to fully cover the event.
Both Nick Bubb and Bill Batterman of WFD’s adult staff will be there taking photos and covering how Wisconsin students fare. Additionally, WFD Student Photographer, Kyle Felker will also be there. Post away in the comments section with what event you are attending or if you can help contribute to the coverage!
WFCA State Pictures are ONLINE!
Posted on April 24, 2007 – 3:20 pm by: Nick Bubb
Don’t Just Stand Around! Run over to the WFD Pictures, courtsey of WFD student photographer Kyle Felker. Check them out here
WFD March Madness Pool, Round 2
Posted on March 11, 2007 – 6:57 pm by: Nick BubbWhile the forensics season is heating up, so is the world of college basketball. If you’re a fan of the NCAA Basketball Championship, then this is for you: the WFD Hoops Challenge Round Two.
In keeping with last year’s tradition, Wisconsin Forensics Daily presents a free Final Four Challenge at Yahoo! It’s free to join, and is fun to play. Anyone can join, and all it takes is a Yahoo! id (which is also free). We invite everyone - judges, coaches, and competitors to join in on the fun. Show off your college basketball knowledge and establish bragging rights.
To join go to: http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/men and create a bracket. Once there, make sure you join the WFD Custom Group - information necessary to do this is enclosed below.
Yahoo Group Name: Wisconsin Forensics Daily
Yahoo Group ID#: 80876
Yahoo Group Password: speechgeek
As with last year, the winner will be showered with praise as the Wisconsin Forensics World’s Basketball Guru. And the winner will also be posted right here, on WFD. Let the Madness Begin!
Pictures from Appleton East, State
Posted on December 11, 2006 – 4:15 pm by: Nick BubbPhotos from Appleton East and the Wisconsin State Debate Tournament in Hortonville are now online! Check them out below.
I’m sure you’ll be dancing too.
Massive Picture Update
Posted on November 25, 2006 – 12:45 pm by: Nick BubbWisconsin Forensics Daily has just updated its picture log for this season. We’ve now added Albums for LaCrosse, Hortonville, The Glenbrooks, Sheboygan North, and the Marquette University Parliamentary tournament. We will have many, many more photos to come with Appleton East and the State Tournament right around the corner. There will also be two new features debuting in the next few weeks. One is a surprise (or at least I’m not sure I’m supposed to share the idea) and the other is a trivia challenge.
Here’s our schedule for this week. The Appleton East (Traas’) Trivia challenge will be coming on Monday in place of the Monday Meditation. On Tuesday will have a full update to the number of teams participating in the Challenge divisions at Appleton East, as well as a corresponding update to the AE Caselist. On Wednesday we should have some kind of word about the new feature. And on Thursday we’ll have a new Thursday Thing to Read. Friday we will have updated pairings from Appleton East - but - unfortionately we will not be live because of technological limitations.
Anyway: Here’s a taste of what you can find in brand new albums.
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted on November 23, 2006 – 4:31 pm by: Nick BubbFrom Wisconsin Forensics Daily, to all of you - Happy Thanksgiving. On a day devoted to giving thanks - we want to know, what are you thankful for?
WFD Milestone
Posted on November 9, 2006 – 11:29 pm by: Nick BubbYesterday’s Vote post reflected a milestone for WFD: our 250th post. We are also just 9 comments short of 1,000 responses!
That’s right - in a little over a year we have created significant coverage of Wisconsin Debate and Forensics, almost to the point of a post and three comments per day. I’d just like to pause to mention all of the things that WFD has accomplished over the last year and two months.
- We have provided live updates from many tournaments including: NFL Nationals, WDCA State, the Capitol City Challenge, Alex Meseck Invitational, Brookfield Central, University of Michigan, NFL Qualifiers, and the Alexandra Hoecherl Challenge.
- We have provided results from almost every Wisconsin Debate and Forensics Tournament
- We have interviewed important members of the debate and forensics community, with several more planned.
- We have provided a judge email list serv so that coaches can more easily get ahold of judges.
- We have started a debate case list for teams to make better and more in-depth arguments
- We have started community events for judges and coaches - namely, a Brewer Game.
- We have taken photos of many forensics and debate competitions.
- We have started numerous discussions on how best to improve our state.
- We have begun archiving and researching Wisconsin Debate history to perserve online for future generations.
- Our writer’s pieces have been featured on National Debate sites. Including our Laptop Discussion and Bill’s Recomendations on how to prep for debate camp.
And we’ve done it all for FREE - as a service to all of you. I’d like to thank the members of the community who have been so helpful in putting together this website: Bill Batterman, Mike Traas (who can’t even access this from school now), Adam Jacobi, and the folks who have joined this year: Paul Hager, Cory Puuri, and Erik Baseman. Thanks! With an increased demand for my time, I’m having a hard time putting together updates by myself and so I need to rely on these excellent individuals in order to keep WFD afloat. Again, if you’d like to write regularly or on an occassional basis - please let me know.
Nick Bubb
WFD Editor-in-Chief
WFD Presents a Master Case List
Posted on November 6, 2006 – 1:07 am by: Erik BasemanAfter some discussion Noah Trilling and I have decided to start a master casebook for Wisconsin debate. This will function similarly to the casebook that was published for the Sheboygan North tournament, except that it will be cumulative and will include not only cites for affirmatives, but also for negative arguments. This year’s version is intended to be a sort of pilot version, with a more extensive casebook planned for next year.
For those of you who are wondering what on earth I’m talking about right now, a casebook is basically a written record of arguments teams make at tournaments. Often there is either a scouting process at the tournament itsself or teams simply send in outlines of their affirmatives and go-to negative positions before going to a tournament. Our casebook will take the latter form, and hopefully be updated before each tournament.
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Rufus King Pictures are ONLINE
Posted on October 13, 2006 – 12:24 am by: Nick Bubb
Pictures from Rufus King can be found here. Captions are still coming. Other pictures are still coming. Some edits are still coming. But enjoy, in the mean time.