by Joshua Hu | Nov 11, 2017 | From Intermediate to Advanced, From Novice to Intermediate, Parliamentary, Technique, Uncategorized
We’ve all dealt with it. Whether you were working on dropping your mile time, increasing your vertical, or improving your speaking skills, you’ve probably faced the unfortunate reality of the “Law of Diminishing Returns”. Contrary to what we may think, people do not...
by Thaddeus Tague | Nov 6, 2017 | Ethos Info
Friends of Ethos, Let’s cut to it. We messed up. The final versions of our TP sourcebooks contained far fewer briefs than we had previously planned and previously advertised and all of our sourcebooks were released late. So as the new owner of Ethos, I owe all of our...
by Joshua Farquhar | Nov 4, 2017 | Speech Events, Technique
One of my favorite subjects is Russia. Russian culture, politics, language, history…it’s all fun to me. Because of this deep interest, I decided to deliver a platform speech about U.S.-Russian relations last year. Let’s just say my opinion wasn’t the most popular...
by Noah Howard | Nov 1, 2017 | Debate Rounds, Strategy, Technique
It was 10:30 pm at NITOC 2016, and I was about to give the last speech of the last out round of the day. I had almost everything prepared. Almost. The problem was, Neg had run an argument that I just couldn’t come up with a response to. But it was okay, I had two...
by Noah Farley | Oct 27, 2017 | Lincoln-Douglas, Stoa, Stoa Resolutions
In the last two pieces, I’ve discussed a couple of things that have changed due to the new resolution we’ve drawn for Stoa this year. So far, we’ve covered the proper role of values in a fact resolution and the lack of need for applications to prove the resolution....
