by Isaiah McPeak | Oct 9, 2011 | Coaching, Parliamentary, Strategy
I’m teaching some parli classes lately. While these structures help in other forms of debate too, it’s good to learn a few standard case structures to deploy in parli. You can do almost anything you want to organize your speech, as long as you do it...
by Isaiah McPeak | Oct 3, 2011 | Strategy
I received a question over the weekend: What’s a Kritical aff and how does it work? I decided to respond to the whole debate community as the issue is so commonly misunderstood. The truth is, people mean several different things when they say “Kritical...
by Drew | Sep 26, 2011 | Strategy
Today’s post is an example of a Kritik and some potential responses. The K itself is geared at a higher level of both debate theory and political theory understanding and the responses also debate at a higher level of debate theory. So first off, here’s a...
by Drew | Sep 17, 2011 | Coaching, From Intermediate to Advanced
Thanks to our dual sourcebook manager, Lydia Bode, for writing today’s post. The 1AC is important. But I’m sure you already knew that – or at least, think you know that. Which is why I’m sitting here wondering why almost everybody thinks of the 1AC as “an eight...
by Isaiah McPeak | Jul 13, 2011 | Coaching, Ethos Info, Featured, Tournaments
~~CORRECTION: I had previously erroneously reported that the negative review from an alumni was from someone who was not at the tournament the whole time. In fact, the alumni WAS at the tournament the whole time. Apologies~~ Back in March I posted about the Vector Fun...
