by Jeremiah Mosbey | Dec 15, 2020 | Affirmatives, Debate, From Intermediate to Advanced, Research, TP
Affirmatives, you need to wake up. How did you divide your research time during the last few seasons? If you’re like most people, you wrote the 1AC early, gradually built your Aff Backup throughout the entire year, but dedicated every other waking moment to expanding...
by Ben Brown | Nov 26, 2020 | Affirmatives, Best Resources, Debate, From Intermediate to Advanced, Speaking
I completely understand people who hate 1AR’s. In a poll of over 150 Team Policy debaters of all experience levels, over sixty percent responded that they thought the 1AR was the hardest speech in the entire debate round. Not only is the 1AR speaker forced to spend...
by Thaddeus Tague | Nov 20, 2019 | Affirmatives, Announcements, Best Resources, Bonus Evidence, Debate, Stoa, Uncategorized
Ethos debate is excited to announce that this Saturday it will be releasing both its Stoa and NCFCA TP sourcebooks. We have 18 quality briefs in each sourcebook, that are ready for debaters to use. In order for you to see the quality of the sourcebook, we are...
by Josh Arnold | May 15, 2019 | Affirmatives, NSDA, NSDA LD Resolutions
This year’s national tournament for the NSDA will debate the resolution: “The United States federal government should enforce antitrust regulations on technology giants.” Below is a brief strategy guide for the affirmative side of this resolution. Between 100 and 130...
by Thaddeus Tague | Feb 12, 2019 | Affirmatives, Bonus Evidence, Debate, NSDA, Public Forum, Uncategorized
Looking for a ton of quality evidence and insightful topic analyses compiled by seasoned debaters? We’ve got our free 110-page March PF brief here! The heart of this debate will boil down to which side of the motion can provide the best housing for the most...
by Thaddeus Tague | Feb 7, 2019 | Affirmatives, Bonus Evidence, Debate, Debate Rounds, NSDA, Uncategorized
This topic post is for Gov/Aff/Pro. Between watching practice rounds, and helping teams prep, it seems like Pro/Aff is definitely fighting an uphill battle on the PF February motion. Why? It can be daunting to argue against a really well run Fill-in DA, especially...
