by Ben Brown | Nov 26, 2020 | Affirmatives, Best Resources, Debate, From Intermediate to Advanced, Speaking
I completely understand people who hate 1AR’s. In a poll of over 150 Team Policy debaters of all experience levels, over sixty percent responded that they thought the 1AR was the hardest speech in the entire debate round. Not only is the 1AR speaker forced to spend... 
by Kyle Lee | Nov 24, 2020 | Parliamentary
“Point of information.”*stops mid-sentence* “um I’ll uh take your point.” As I stuttered through my first ever answer to a point of information in parliamentary debate, I noticed that points of information are nothing like... 
by Anthony Severin | Nov 13, 2020 | Communication/Rhetoric, Cross Examination, From Intermediate to Advanced, Strategy, Technique
Let’s suppose I’m a prosecutor trying to convince a jury to convict the defendant in a murder case. Let’s call the defendant “Albert” and the victim “Buddy.” Albert is on the stand and I’m cross-examining him. You might... 
by Kyle Lee | Nov 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite books of all time is entitled “Made to Stick”, by Dan and Chip Heath. Throughout the book, they explain what makes certain ideas stick in people’s minds. They explore everything from societal-changing advertisements to folk tales... 
by Kyle Lee | Oct 20, 2020 | Debate, From Advanced to National-Class, From Intermediate to Advanced, From Novice to Intermediate, Thinking Strategically
In the previous article, we discussed how you should “Give Your Opponent the Benefit of the Doubt” when it comes to dropped arguments and treat your point being unrefuted as “Additional Support, Not Standalone Proof”. In this article,...