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=Welcome to the 2008 Tournament of Champions Wiki=

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This intro was taken from JP Lacy's Wiki for the College community - I'd like to thank him ahead of time

The objective of this space is to collaboratively develop the best possible scouting for the NDCA/TOC High School debate community.

Better intelligence improves all debating.

Members of the debate community all want to see debate at its best. As competitors, we want to debate against the best competition. This caselist is part of that effort.

This is an ongoing community project. It takes hard work and contribution by each member of the community to improve our debating as a whole by advancing argument as much as possible from one round to the next. The hope is that decentralizing control over contributions will provide better information for everyone, improving the debating of the entire community.

The impetus for this space is multifold: 1. Fair and open access to information improves everyone's debating. 2. Decentralized contribution improves "at tournament" and "pre-tournament" scouting, shifting the burden of scouts from mere collectors to evaluators of current information who can prioritize their scouting appropriately. 3. It inverts the centralized model--"free-riding" complaints and public haranguing by scouting directors work, but the best corrective is probably community input. If you see someone with inadequate scouting, do what you can to correct it! If someone contacts you for your cites, post them here for everyone to see!

My hope is that by next year we can make this a norm in high school debate and that instead of opening up multiple pretournament scouting lists - we can utilize one where everyone will participate.

Thanks, Brian Manuel Cathedral Prep/Lakeland

Caselist word doc:

=Basic guidelines=

2. Page organization:**
 * 1. Add all you want. Delete nothing. Corrections should be noted in subsequent additions.
 * Each school gets a page.
 * Each team gets an aff page and a neg page: see existing school pages for the basic idea
 * Teams are arranged alphabetically with their newest information first.
 * Use "*[*[toc]*]*" (without the asterisks or quotation marks) at the top of each page to make the page automatically generate a table of contents based on heading levels.
 * Use heading 2 to list the specific team name (preferably not just initials).
 * Use heading 3 to specify the round/tournament
 * Use normal for other text.
 * 3. Include all contextual information:**
 * Team
 * Side
 * Opponent
 * Tournament & Round
 * Judge

Are you Judging at the TOC?
If so, please make sure you have made yourself a wikipage at: [[judgephilosophies:home|http://judgephilosophies.wikispaces.com/]]

This is the Word document with the Judge Philosophies for the TOC.


 * TOC RECORDS**

This will be updated as the tournament goes on.




 * please note there was an error in the original round 3 record sheet that was posted. Please refer to the most recent one for correct records.**