Archive forNovember, 2009
Nov
24
Old School Debate About Debate
November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
The videos posted below are from a 1992 series about debate. The panelist rank among the most successful coaches in college debate history. The three videos are rather long and a little dry at times but they are also thoughtful and aggressively fascinating at points. If you watch these videos you are guaranteed to learn [...]
Nov
23
City Championship Super Session Scoring
November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The final round of both HS and MS student congress at this years DKC City Championship will include a student vote element. Please watch the following video to learn the specifics of this new system.
Nov
23
High School Power Rankings Updated
November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Want to know who leads the way in DKC high school competition? Check out the updated Power Rankings below. Results are based solely on DKC tournament competition. If you are a competitor and don’t find your name on the list, then work harder to move up the ranks! We are only half way through the [...]
Nov
23
Central Takes Nebraska by Storm
November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Central High School traveled this past weekend, November 20-22, to compete at the Millard South High School speech and debate tournament in Omaha, Nebraska. As has been typical of the team under head coach Jane Rinehart, they had wonderful results. In Student Congress Jay Walters was the first place speaker out of 33 competitors. In [...]
Nov
23
UA Holds Weekend Tournament
November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
On Saturday, November 14th University Academy hosted DKC’s first weekend tournament of the year. Over 50 high school students competed in policy debate and student congress. Central continued their winning ways by taking first place in sweepstakes points. The winners a re listed below. Student Congress Central – Eric Neal Central – Jay Walters Lincoln Prep- Dara Boyer Lincoln Prep- Paul [...]
Nov
16
Middle School Power Rankings
November 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
As promised, DKC is proud to release our Power Rankings for Middle School debate. The current totals are based on the first two tournaments of the year. In policy debate the teams are ranked based on total number of wins with speaker points breaking ties. In student congress totals are based on top 5 House [...]
Nov
12
Center Hosts Second DKC MS Tournament
November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Nov 10 - Center Middle School play host to played host to 15 DEBATE-Kansas City middle schools at the second tournament of the year. Over 200 students competed in both student congress and policy debate. The sweepstakes results followed the same pattern as the previous tournament: Lincoln Prep in place first with Sumner Academy and [...]
Nov
11
Lawyers in the Classroom Recognized by University News
November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
High school debaters get mentored By: Kelley Kates UMKC’s University News Posted: 11/2/09 Debate Kansas City (DKC) and UMKC have entered a new era with a new program that helps local high school debaters. The new program, “Lawyers in the Classroom,” teams area lawyers with UMKC law students to assist urban students who are active [...]
Nov
10
Poverty K on the Affirmative
November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Greetings DKC debaters! We have a new video blog and file for you. We have taken the Poverty Kritik, typically run on the negative, and re-fashioned it to be an affirmative argument. You can find it here with a password. You should run this argument in the 2AC if your affirmative case does use poverty rhetoric and [...]
Nov
6
Introducing DKC Power Rankings
November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
DEBATE-Kansas City is proud to release our first ever set of “Power Rankings” for high school debate. The rankings are based on tournament performance and will be updated throughout the season. We have rankings for novice and varsity debate, along with student congress. Without further ado, here are the top performers to date in DKC. [...]
