by Noah McKay | Mar 23, 2022 | Lincoln-Douglas, Thinking Strategically
Pixabay.com, https://pixabay.com/illustrations/silhouette-scales-justice-scale-3267887/ Many (probably most) Lincoln Douglas resolutions recommend “valuing” one of two things over the other. And most LD debaters don’t elaborate on what this means,...
by Noah McKay | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Speaker points” is an appropriate but potentially misleading label for the individual scores debaters receive on their ballots. One widespread misconception (especially among LD debaters) is that the “speaker” in “speaker points” refers to the quality of a...
by Noah McKay | Feb 2, 2022 | Lincoln-Douglas
Pixabay.com, https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/10/30/12/24/questions-1014060_1280.jpg The Problem Definitional vagueness is par for the course in Lincoln Douglas debate; in fact, most resolutions are meant to be semantically malleable enough to admit of several...