Re: Case debate in the 90s ???

["Michael R. Dickman" <mdickman@cc.cumber.edu>]

I don't know David's background.  sounds like he did ndt then go out for a
while.  I did ndt at Wichita in the very early 80's and for one year at
John Carroll in the mid 80's and haven't heard an ndt team untill this
year.  

A good questionis asked, well actually two good questions.  Is case debate
dead? 

Is this a ceda vs ndt thing?  

I don't know enough about ndt debate to say whether case debate is alive
and well.  I know that in the "old days" it was considered quite a smart
strategy to take out a teams solvency (always considered the weak link on
case) and many teams built fine careers on being good solvency debaters.
Today Doyle Srader (who I believe is from an ndt type school--if that
means anything in the ongoing merger world of debate) openly ridiqules a
team that might try to have solvency as a weapon of choice.  In ceda (at
least in my small view of it--southeast/southeast central) case debate is
pretty dead.  most case debate is seen as a time suck to keep aff from
answering the "real" stuff.  I say this having had a team that did quite
well in our little region making people defend their case!  

Wel what of it? is case debate dead?  Should we revive the notion of
presumption as a way to even out the sides again?  How do we do that?

Mike 
CC Debate

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