TOC

June 16, 2008

  • 2009 Tournament of Champions Qualifiers

    Dr. J. W. Patterson, Tournament Director for the Tournament of Champions, has released the list of approved tournaments for bids to the 2009 TOC to be held in Lexington, KY on May 2-4.
    Automatic Qualifiers
    Octafinals at the 2008 TOC
    Octafinals at the 2008 NFL National Tournament
    Octafinals at the 2008 CFL National Tournament
    Octafinal Qualifiers
    Yale (CT)
    Florida Blue Key (FL)
    Emory [...]

May 5, 2008

  • 2008 Tournament of Champions Results

    Naz El-Khatib & Claire Kairys from North Allegheny (PA) defeated Charles Giardina & Jonathan Yip from The Collegiate School (NY) on a 4-3 decision to win the Public Forum Debate division at the 2008 Tournament of Champions in Lexington, KY.
    Complete results below via Victory Briefs Daily.
    Two things:
    1. I’m assuming that KK advanced over the other [...]

May 4, 2008

  • TOC Weekend

    The Tournament of Champions is taking place this weekend in Lexington, KY. Georgia Forensics Daily is providing Public Forum Debate coverage and they have posted the octafinal results. We will print complete tournament results at the end of the tournament.

April 13, 2008

  • Tournament of Champions Field Announced

    A total of 59 Public Forum Debate teams have been selected for the Tournament of Champions which will be held May 3-5 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY.

March 7, 2008

  • Tournament of Champions Deadline Nears

    The Tournament of Champions entry deadline for fully qualified and at-large applications is 5:00pm on March 14; which is one week from today.
    I have updated the 2008 TOC qualifiers page on the PFDebate Wiki with new official tournament results from Dr. Patterson at the University of Kentucky. I have not culled through the tournament results [...]

September 19, 2007

  • Tournament of Champions Information Updated

    Dr. Patterson, from the University of Kentucky, has updated the Tournament of Champions qualifying information in two different posts (1 and 2) to NDTCEDA-L. There is some overlap between the two postings.

July 20, 2007

  • Tournament of Champions Bid Tournaments Posted

    Dr. J.W. Patterson from the University of Kentucky has released the list of qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Tournament of Champions (TOC) which will be held in Lexington, Kentucky on May 3, 4, and 5, 2008.
    A 2008 TOC Qualifiers page has been added to the wiki.

May 7, 2007

  • Lexington Wins TOC Public Forum Debate Championship

    Chrissy Kugel & Garth Goldwater from Lexington High School (PRO) defeated Patrick Toomey & Katherine Buse from Durham Academy (CON) on a 4-1 decision to win the Public Forum Debate division a the Tournament of Champions in Lexington, Kentucky.
    Durham Academy is coached by Jeff Welty. Lexington is coached by Lynne Coyne.
    Finals
    (8) Lexington KG defeated (7) [...]

May 6, 2007

  • TOC Prelim Pairings

    Victory Briefs Daily is posting the Public Forum Debate preliminary round pairings.

    Round 1
    Round 2
    Round 3
    Round 4
    Round 5
    Round 6
    Round 7

    The Public Forum Debate division will be breaking to octafinals.

May 5, 2007

  • And They’re Off!

    The Tournament of Champions is underway in Lexington, Kentucky. PFDebate has secured the services of a couple of college debaters who will be sending us the Public Forum Debate breaks, elimination round results, and hopefully, some photos. Stay tuned!

April 30, 2007

  • Public Forum Field For Tournament of Champions Announced

    The Public Forum Debate field has been announced for this weekend’s Tournament of Champions in Lexington, Kentucky. A total of 37 teams from 25 schools will be participating.
    Albuquerque: Van Snow & Flona Sloan
    Brentwood: Matt Stern & Chris Kaczmarek
    Bronx Science: Stefan Kazmi & Lev Raslin
    Chaparral: Ben Grossman & Adam Bloch
    Chaparral: Nick French & Anthony Convers II
    Chaparral: [...]

March 30, 2007

  • TOC Bids

    The Public Forum TOC bids seem to have gone out before the others. If you have been awarded a TOC bid, don’t forget to add your team to the two bid list on the PFDebate Wiki.

March 6, 2007

  • Tournament of Champions At-Large Bids

    We have received some questions about the PFDebate Wiki list of Tournament of Champions (TOC) qualifiers and the bid application process. Our list is unofficial and most of the contributions have come from you. For official information, you should visit the TOC website.
    There seems to be a lot of fear and loathing about the [...]

December 21, 2006

September 19, 2006

  • Qualifying For the Tournament of Champions

    Yesterday, Victory Briefs Daily posted information about the Public Forum Debate qualifying procedure for the Tournament of Champions. Previously Public Forum divisions at the TOC have been run as round robins.
    The qualifying procedure looks identical to the procedure we wrote about in July, but it includes some additional explanation from the tournament director, J.W. Patterson. [...]

July 27, 2006

  • Tournament of Champions 2007

    JW Patterson from the University of Kentucky has posted the qualifying rules for the 2007 Tournament of Champions. The Public Forum division is now a qualifying tournament instead of a round robin. According to the announcement, teams in the top 3 at at the 2006 TOC, teams in the quarterinals of the 2006 NFL National [...]