by Joseph Samelson | Sep 23, 2010 | Strategy
You know you’ve been in a situation like it before. You come up in your first affirmative constructive and give the 1AC that you’ve practiced over and over and have had it critiqued again and again. Then. It happens. Some negative team comes up in their...
by Patrick S | Sep 20, 2010 | Featured, From Advanced to National-Class, Strategy
We have a problem in the debate community. It’s not bad evidence that I’m referring to. It’s not shallow argumentation. It’s not a lack of thinking. It’s not poor judging. Those are all problems, of course, but they’re not the...
by Isaiah McPeak | Sep 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s our largest production yet… 2,640 pages before free updates. 87 briefs (103 if you count 1ACs separately). 500+ pages of generics. Reading through our quality-source-focused resource will provide you an incredibly deep working knowledge of Russian...
by Isaiah McPeak | Sep 14, 2010 | Example Rounds, Briefs, and Case Studies, From Advanced to National-Class, Strategy
We often advocate taking risks in our blogging and coaching. You have no chance as an intermediate team against an experienced team through “straight refutation” that they are ready for and has failed dozens of times. Sometimes you need to try the hail...
by Andrew Min | Sep 13, 2010 | Coaching
Note to readers: any other tips you can think of would be much appreciated – please comment! The most important thing I’ve learned is that TP is not an individual event. You can do all the brief writing yourself… but if you do, you’ll probably...
