by Ben Brown | Oct 26, 2022 | Communication/Rhetoric, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Team Policy
Almost everyone in the world uses the base ten number system, meaning that the value of the place furthest to the right of an integer is ten raised to the zero power (IE, one), and each successive place increases the value of this exponent by one. Ten to the one...
by Charlie Said | Oct 20, 2022 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Parliamentary, Strategy, Team Policy, Thinking Strategically, Topicality
There’s few things that make experienced debaters happier than a quality Topicality debate (Hereafter referred to by the common debate lingo of “T”). That’s probably because T is so often mishandled by both teams, to the frustration of...
by Nathanael Morgan | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Source: Pixabay In my opinion, Extemporaneous speaking is the most technical speech in NCFCA/Stoa. Sure, if you’re doing a digital presentation or an expository, then your speech might involve more technology, but barring that, Extemp requires you to learn technical...
by Jeremiah Mosbey | Oct 14, 2022 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Soapbox
https://pixabay.com/photos/facepalm-statue-gray-sadness-1791146/ We all have pet peeves, things that to others would simply be minor annoyances, but to ourselves represent all that is wrong in the world. For example, the difference between “I could care...
by Noah McKay | Oct 10, 2022 | Lincoln-Douglas, NCFCA, Strategy, Uncategorized
Pixabay.com, https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2021/04/09/09/39/money-6163908_1280.png The moment this season’s resolution was announced, most NCFCA LD debaters doubtless rushed to the nearest copy of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations in search of arguments...
