by Jala Boyer | May 26, 2023 | From Advanced to National-Class, From Intermediate to Advanced, From Novice to Intermediate, Strategy, Tournaments
With the month of May coming to a close, final competitions like NITOC and the NCFCA Championship are right around the corner. Regionals was an exciting time to see people make well-earned accomplishments and qualify to the national championships of various leagues....
by Noah McKay | May 23, 2023 | NCFCA Resolutions
The 2023-2024 NCFCA debate resolutions have been announced! The new Lincoln Douglas topic is, Resolved: rationalism ought to be valued above empiricism. As many of you know, I was not a fan of this resolution when it was proposed. I am still not a fan, though I am...
by D. J. Mendenhall | May 18, 2023 | Research Tips
Over the course of my years in debate I’ve seen many debaters try to support ridiculous claims, from North Korea being globalist to the moon landing being fake. While this isn’t shocking (debaters will have ridiculous arguments as long as humans remain imperfect), the...
by Ben Brown | May 13, 2023 | Affirmative, Team Policy, Uncategorized
Depending on your definition of the term, “policy debate” has been around in the US for roughly a hundred years. For the first few decades of its existence, the resolution for each year was considerably more narrow in scope than we’re accustomed to nowadays. Some...
by Patrick McDonald | May 9, 2023 | Lincoln-Douglas, Strategy, Theory
I will begin this article with a brief disclaimer: I have no definitive answer to this quandary. The purpose of this article is not to persuade you of a response to the question in the title but instead to raise the question. It is a topic of significant importance...
