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Statistics Regarding Georgia Policy Debate

I’ve been doing some statistical research on Georgia Policy Debate.
Here’s what I’ve found – prior to Hooch

2008-2009 (Only including Westminster, Mcintosh, Warner Robins) – 33 schools, 353 students
2009-2010 (Only including Westminster, Lakeview, Warner Robins) – 29 schools, 293 students

Post-Sequoyah (5 tournaments into the season):
2008-2009 {all year} – 699 students participated
2009-2010 {so far} – 460 students [...]


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Announcing the Official Website of the GFCA

Great news for our Georgia followers!
Confusion about what the official Georgia debate website is should no longer exists.  The Georgia Forensic Coaches Association revealed their new website for all the official GFCA news.
The new website will be the home for everything released by the GFCA – this includes (but not limited to) the novice packet, [...]


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On Open Content Licensing

Georgia Forensics Daily, and all other bluetub content is changing (for the better, of course). We want to live up to our mission of being a provider of free and open knowledge to the debate community.
When Jeff created the aggregated camp evidence and lecture pages, we did it as a service to the community, connecting [...]


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New Feature: Camp Lectures & Evidence Compiled in One Source

I spent this afternoon working on a manual aggregator of sorts to try and assist everyone in the downloading of camp lectures & files.  On Cross-X, the need for a better way to organize these camp lectures & evidence was mentioned.
Therefore, we decided to compile the links to all the lectures and files out there.  [...]


A Challenge to the Judging Community

When Brandon & I started this website two years ago we had one main goal, we were set on building community and supporting free, open knowledge.  I’m taking this one step farther by challenging the judging community across the nation, not just in Georgia, to become better teachers and more responsible judges.
I challenge judges to [...]


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GFCA Election Results

The Georgia Forensics Coaches Association has announced the executive committee for the 2009-2010 debate season which includes 6 position changes. We’d like to congratulate everyone on their respective offices and we look forward to the 2009-2010 debate season!
President: Richard Bracknell, Carrollton High School
Vice President: Lee Robinson, Lincoln County High School
Secretary: Mario Herrera, Henry W. Grady [...]


Trinity Prep, Westminster, Ransom Everglades Win Barkley Forum

The 54th Annual Barkley Forum for High Schools has concluded and congrats to the champions of the debate divisions, who win keys taken from a mold of the key General Sherman carried during his march to the sea:
In Policy Debate, Westminster SJ (Anshu Sathian & Rajesh Jegadeesh) took home the Silver Key.
In Lincoln-Douglas, Jake Nebel [...]