Pick 50: On adapting and competing

[Irwin Mallin <imallin@indiana.edu>]

The need to adapt a message to a given audience is, I think, one of the
most significant things one learns from debate.  The ability to do so is
certainly one of the most valuable skills ex-debaters bring to their
post-debate lives.  But, maybe, with a pool as big and unfamiliar as we
have at nationals, and with so much on the line competitively at
nationals, maybe it's not too much for debaters to ask that, just for that
one tournament, they confine their need to adapt to a select pool that
they are already familiar with, or whose reputation they respect, or whose
self-disclosure in the judging book they are comfortable with. 

Just a thought.  Irwin.  Indiana.

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