Episode 3: TOC Thoughts The Next Off Victory Briefs Podcast

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Chris Theis, Jacob Nails, and Lawrence Zhou discuss their thoughts following the eTOC including the online nature of the tournament, the potential benefits of shifting to a 4-day online tournament model, the benefits of adopting side- or flip-equalization, miscellaneous thoughts and rants about various theory arguments, the problems with theory paradigm issues, whether or not online tournaments are superior to offline tournaments, potential supervision issues with online tournaments and potential solutions to it, and the rampant speaks inflation at the TOC.

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Episode Links:
Zoom Room Model: https://wyodebateroundup.weebly.com/blog/online-debate-guide
TOC Speaker Points: https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/results/event_results.mhtml?tourn_id=13038&result_id=128277
Speaker Points Article: https://www.vbriefly.com/2015/01/12/opponent-adjusted-performance-score-a-proposed-alternative-to-speaker-points-as-the-first-tie-breaker/
Podcast with Yao Yao Chen: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/its-happening-now-innovations-in-education-with-evan-margiotta/e/53727232

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