by Noah McKay | Jan 31, 2023 | 2022 - 2023 NCFCA LD Rez: Property Rights vs. Community, Lincoln-Douglas, Strategy, Thinking Strategically
Pixabay.com, https://pixabay.com/photos/boy-portrait-child-hands-hide-317041/ Most LD debaters have participated in, or at least seen, an exchange like this one: AFF: “When the Soviet Union attempted to collectivize agriculture and industry in the early 20th century,...
by Jeremiah Mosbey | Nov 17, 2022 | Lincoln-Douglas
https://pixabay.com/photos/carpenters-toolbox-tool-chest-1466467/ As you may or may not know, I was a fairly experienced Team Policy debater before making the switch to Lincoln-Douglas this season. I’ve debated about 10-15 rounds now, and I thought maybe some of...
by Ben Brown | Nov 10, 2022 | Fiat, From Advanced to National-Class, Negative, Team Policy
As any TPer knows, one of the most satisfying parts of the preparation process is when one stumbles across a golden piece of evidence, thinks of a killshot argument, or anything similarly incredible that looks like it all but guarantees a win against a given case. ...
by Noah McKay | Nov 7, 2022 | Cross Examination, Lincoln-Douglas, Strategy, Uncategorized
Poly Languages, https://polylanguages.edu/bend-over-backwards/ Competitive debaters are trained to give good answers to difficult questions. So, we are profoundly uncomfortable when we don’t have an answer to a question. And, under most circumstances, we would...
by Patrick McDonald | Nov 3, 2022 | NCFCA, Team Policy
Note: I’ll be taking NCFCA as my subject for this article because that is where my experience lies. I assume that many of these points will also apply to Stoa, but that is for Stoa-ers (Stoics?) to decide. For the first four years of my exposure to speech and debate,...
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...
