The final part of an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 2 (re: chemical weapons) Today’s round takes us back to the beginning of the tournament, the first filmed round of my career since…
Tag: The Agony of the Wait is the Agony of Debate
Wired
As bad as I felt last night at this time is as good as I feel tonight. What a difference, as they say, a day makes. I have just rattled off over 3,000 words (~12 pages) tonight, in a remarkably…
Frustration
Chapter 32 may be long remembered as the one that got away. After four nights and just shy of 5,000 words, I think I can finally put it behind me (for now), but it’s taken its toll. A lot of…
Crime vs. Convention
Part 7 in an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 3 (re: Enron executives and their wallets) Today’s round features one of my favorite opp-choice cases from my senior-year case-writing binge. The case was…
When the World is Silent, the Mind Comes Alive
Twice a week, I drive to New Brunswick from Princeton, a 16-mile jaunt that usually takes over half an hour to complete because of the nature of driving in New Jersey. I head up there in the 8:00 hour to…
Enron and the Cops
Part 6 in an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 4 (re: Stalin vs. Lenin) Today’s round is the only time in my career where I remember someone running a counter-case against an opp-choice…
The End of the Season
It’s October. There’s a lot of sleight of hand involved in October, but perhaps its greatest achievement is bringing an end to baseball season without generally making me upset about said end. Granted that the excitement of playoff baseball and…
The 20th Century: All About the Soviets
Part 5 in an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 5 (re: Native American Reparations) Today’s round features one of the best cases I ever hit in my tenure on APDA, run by a…
Monday Monday
Days like this, I miss having Introspection. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed and uninspired and like I have thousands of things to catch people up on. Just like 2.5 weeks ago, it’s time for bullet points: I spent most of…
The Most Open Case that Never Lost
While we’re waiting to see if I have the inclination to post my journal from last year’s India/Nepal trip, I figured I could trot out the rest of the Stanford 2002 filmed rounds as a recurring set of content for…