[Re: [Re: 9-3-6 no! 8-3-6 yes!]]

[Randal Pittelli <pittelli@ehsct7.envmed.rochester.edu>]

Nice, Frank. "...ungrounded, confrontational and inflammatory
posts..."??? I may have forgotten the '{;->', but surely you could see
that it was directed at Bear's (originally included) bizarre comment,
"If [NDT] can agree to debate our topics, why can't we at least move a
little bit on standardizing format?" But if you still don't see the
tongue-in-cheek, maybe we should secretly poll CEDA coaches as to their
opinions of why NDT agreed to CEDA's topics...

-Randy

Frank P. Irizarry wrote:

> Bear,
>
> I agree with you that Randy's assertion is an unfounded and massive
> misreading of what has happened in the last decade and I would rather
> sit through endless rounds at 9-3-6 than be subject to such
> ungrounded,
> confrontational and inflammatory posts as Randy's but I still don't
> see
> the *empirical* evidence that 9-3-6 is better than 8-3-6.  I think Bob
>
> is correct when he says maybe it's the "6" for the rebuttals that make
>
> debaters happy and not necessarily the "9."  Maybe people just lump
> the
> 9 and the 6 together because that is the tradition.  I still don't
> know
> why we don't give 8-3-6 a shot.
>
> frank irizarry
> syracuse debate
>
> Date:          Fri, 1 Aug 1997 21:20:17 -0400 (EDT)
> Reply-to:      MWBRYANT@aol.com
> From:          MWBRYANT@aol.com
> To:            Issues concerning CEDA Debate  <CEDA-L@cornell.edu>
> Subject:       Re: [Re: 9-3-6 no! 8-3-6 yes!]
> X-To:          pittelli@ehsct7.envmed.rochester.edu
>
> In a message dated 97-08-01 19:46:31 EDT, you write:
>
> << Maybe I'm mistaken, but wasn't the `merger` spurred out of NDT's
>  weakness? Kinda like an unconditional surrender?
>
>  -Randy
>   >>
>
> Randy,
>
> I think that's a massive misreading of what's happened. NDT numbers
> were
> down
> over the last decade, but it seemed to be surviving just fine. The
> point
> is,
> anyway, irrelevant. 9-3-6 just makes for better debates. 9-3-6 is
> another NDT
> innovation worth transplanting to CEDA.
>
> Bear
> Weber st
>
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