Podcast link

http://www.archive.org/details/RmaRadioClubhouse_285

There's the link to our latest Radio Forum broadcast, from Monday night.

WFTR Radio Show, Facebook connection

We're on the air today at 6 pm on WFTR, 1450 AM. If you're in Warren County and can hear us, you can hit our Facebook page and we'll post your comments (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/R-MA-Debate-Team-Radio-Forum/239081184725)... at least, we will if we can get the Internet connection working. This is as close as we can get to a live phone-in format. (Anyone know how to use Twitter?)

WFTR podcast

Here is the link to the podcast of our Radio Forum on WFTR, Monday September 13:

 

http://www.archive.org/details/RmaSpeechDebateRadioShow_43

 

Back on the air!

WFTR has not only survived years of debaters on the airwaves, they keep inviting us back for more! We should have the podcast available for download tomorrow.

Wake wrap

None of our teams broke to finals. But all three of our judges had to judge the last round of the day, so we were all pretty tired when we made it back to the hotel and conked out. Getting organized now for breakfast and the trip home.

Even though we didn't win anything, it was an excellent tournament. Our freshmen got a chance to see what debate is all about. They learned on their feet, rewrote and tweaked their cases, shared and helped each other, and had a great time. Two judges told me how impressed they were with our kids. We accomplished a lot on this trip.

Last round

The teams are off to the last rounds of the day. It's raining, we're all tired and a bit bedraggled...and looking forward to dinner and the hotel. We have to stick around until 1930 to find out if anyone broke to octofinals, and if any of our judges are needed. We've spent a lot of time discussing the cases we've heard and tweaking our own. Spirits are high. Our freshmen are having a great time and eager to tackle the next tournament now that they've seen what it's like.

Wake Saturday

We made it to Saturday rounds on time, thanks to the fact that Valerie cooked breakfast for everyone...one advantage of staying in a hotel with suites. Wake Forest is a beautiful campus, and all of our rounds are in buildings that are close to each other, thank goodness.

We're at Wake!

First round is over. One more round tonight.

On the way to Wake

Wake schedule

The schedule for this week's Wake Forest Earlybird Tournament is up on our cell-phone-friendly page. If your phone can browse the Web, point the browser at debatealert.net.

 

Team practice

Fwd: 2010 Wake Forest University Tournament entries

We're lined up for the first tournament of the year, the Early Bird at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. We're taking four Public Forum teams:

John Christoph - Peter Jin
Jackson McGraw - Tyler Atkinson
Valerie Pratt - Jonathan Pedersen
Micah Peregrino - Ben Nelson

We'll head out Friday morning (September 10) and the first round is Friday afternoon. This year I have resolved to take more pictures and put them up here where people can see them, and I've figured out how to do that from my cell phone, so we'll give it a try. They probably won't be very good pictures, but that's probably better than no pictures at all. I hope.

Last week we met our new coach, James Taafel, who was one of Mr. Gregg's star debaters and has returned to teach at R-MA. This is going to be a great year!