by Nathanael Morgan | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Source: Pixabay In my opinion, Extemporaneous speaking is the most technical speech in NCFCA/Stoa. Sure, if you’re doing a digital presentation or an expository, then your speech might involve more technology, but barring that, Extemp requires you to learn technical...
by Nathanael Morgan | Sep 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Source: Pexels We’ve all experienced it. A fellow competitor acts one way within a debate round and when they walk out of the room they act like a completely different person. Maybe they’re quite polished and professional while debating and then you see them in goofy...
by Nathanael Morgan | Nov 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Before my last tournament of my high school debate career, NITOC 2021, I had a stunning realization. My partner and I had booked private coaching to see what we needed to do to succeed at what was for us the pinnacle of our speech and debate career. After mere...
by Nathanael Morgan | Oct 18, 2021 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Negative, Strategy, Team Policy, Technique
2Ns, listen up. This blog post is for you. Most TP debaters see the 1AR as the most difficult speech to give in a TP round. You only have 5 minutes to respond to 13 consecutive minutes of Negative argumentation, and if you miss something or aren’t very...
by Nathanael Morgan | Sep 24, 2021 | Best Resources, Communication/Rhetoric, Technique, Uncategorized
Source: Pixabay The judge literally didn’t write anything about our disadvantages on the ballot! I don’t understand, they were our most important arguments. The Aff completely dropped them and they were impacted out and everything! Ugh. Sometimes it can be...
