by Jeremiah Mosbey | Mar 18, 2022 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Strategy, Technique, Thinking Strategically
https://pixabay.com/photos/factory-demolition-destruction-4757647/ It’s fairly often that I’ll make an argument and practically be wiped across the floor by my opponent’s response. Does that mean I’m a bad debater? Not at all! As much as we...
by Amanda McPhetridge | Mar 14, 2022 | Coaching a Club, Debate Partnerships, From Advanced to National-Class, Technique
(Foodess.com, Jennifer Pallian) Last weekend I made a beautiful chocolatey cake. Quite honestly it was fantastic, so my roommates and I ate most of it, then left the rest of it out on the counter. After a few days of the last bit sitting out, it got stale on the...
by Justin Marwad | Mar 11, 2022 | From Intermediate to Advanced
In James 1:19, James makes it known that every person should be “quick to hear, slow to speak” and in Proverbs 18:2, Solomon goes as far as to say, “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.” The message that we can learn...
by Noah McKay | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Speaker points” is an appropriate but potentially misleading label for the individual scores debaters receive on their ballots. One widespread misconception (especially among LD debaters) is that the “speaker” in “speaker points” refers to the quality of a...
by Justin Marwad | Feb 26, 2022 | Judging/Judges
As a judge, we’ve all been in rounds where we might have seen a team do something that we perceived to be unfair or unethical. Perhaps it was bringing up a new argument in a rebuttal or making any other kind of sus argument. Most of us would immediately dock speaker...
