by Jeremiah Mosbey | Sep 28, 2021 | From Advanced to National-Class, Judging/Judges, Strategy
https://pixabay.com/photos/referee-sports-fair-person-man-1149014/ If you’ve been reading my blog articles for a while, you knew that this was coming. Earlier this year, the NCFCA announced their rule changes for 2022, with this being one of the revisions: “Only the...
by Anthony Severin | Jul 11, 2021 | Advocacy, Counterplans, Fiat, From Advanced to National-Class, Negative, Uncategorized
What must an affirmative team do to win a policy debate round? The affirmative should win if they convince the judge that the audience and the debaters are better off if the judge votes affirmative. Conversely, the negative should win if they convince the judge that...
by Jeremiah Mosbey | May 13, 2021 | Coaching, From Advanced to National-Class
https://pixabay.com/photos/book-address-book-learning-learn-1171564/ What were the biggest things that helped you really start understanding debate as you were first starting out? We all have a short list of things that really made things “click” for us, and if you...
by Ben Brown | Apr 1, 2021 | From Advanced to National-Class, Team Policy, Technique
Anybody who’s been in TP or LD debate for any considerable amount of time understands the necessity of delivering a memorable 2AR. After all, being able to give the final speech of the round poses a significant rhetorical advantage to the affirmative–an...
by Ben Brown | Feb 4, 2021 | Concept Analysis, From Advanced to National-Class, From Intermediate to Advanced, Negative, Strategy, Team Policy, Uncategorized
In part 1, we looked at the argument for net benefits being the superior framing as compared to the burden of proof in Team Policy. The short version is that 9 times out of 10, the burden of proof boils down to net benefits anyway. That is, first, if there’s a net...
by Ben Brown | Jan 7, 2021 | From Advanced to National-Class, From Intermediate to Advanced, Negative, Research Tips, Team Policy, Thinking Strategically
Each year, my debate club requires every student to go through the NCFCA’s “Comprehensive Guide to Policy Debate” curriculum in the fall, regardless of experience level. Having read it multiple times before, I was skimming the week’s assigned chapter twenty or...
