by Ben Brown | Mar 30, 2022 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Negative, Strategy, Team Policy
Most people would agree that higher speaker points tend to correlate with higher win rates in debate. Of course, there will always be teams who get low speaks and still do exceptionally well, and there will be those who speak well but still are stuck going...
by Ben Brown | Feb 23, 2022 | Lincoln-Douglas
Prior to the 2021-2022 competition season, I had four years of experience under my belt in TP. Coming into this year, I didn’t plan to change that at all–I had always done TP, and I certainly didn’t have any plans to switch over to LD my senior year. But...
by Ben Brown | Jan 19, 2022 | Concept Analysis, From Advanced to National-Class
I’ve found that a major downside of dedicating time to speech and debate instead of some other high school extracurricular is that it’s painful not being able to tell everyone about my amazing escapades in certain rounds. Sure, if I played basketball, anybody...
by Ben Brown | Dec 1, 2021 | From Intermediate to Advanced, From Novice to Intermediate, Negative
I’ll keep this brief: There is decidedly a correlation between quantity of negative research and competitive success in Team Policy. Look at the list of the top eight teams at both NCFCA and Stoa nationals last year. Almost every one of them has a...
by Ben Brown | Oct 27, 2021 | Concept Analysis, Soapbox
As zealous a proponent of high school speech and debate I may be, I’m forced to admit that its practical applications have their limits. Specifically, many might argue that those who succeed in speech and debate are able to do so because they develop skills which...
