by Hannah Cavanaugh | Jan 29, 2024 | College Debate, From Intermediate to Advanced, Lincoln-Douglas, NCFCA, NSDA, Parliamentary, Stoa, Thinking Strategically
Credit: Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/light-bulb-idea-inspiration-light-4514505/) “Narrative imagining — story — is the fundamental instrument of thought. Rational capacities depend upon it. It is our chief means of looking into the future, or...
by Allie Satterfield | Nov 7, 2023 | Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Team Policy
Credit: Pixabay It has happened to the best of us. You are in a round and have constructed a killer argument that bolsters your position tenfold. You deliver it beautifully in your first constructive, but low and behold looking back over your flow after the round you...
by Hannah Cavanaugh | Nov 1, 2023 | Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Team Policy, Technique, Thinking Strategically, Uncategorized
Picture Credit – https://pixabay.com/photos/floor-plan-construction-building-1857175/ Out of the 5 speaker categories on every debate ballot, one of the most undervalued (at least in my opinion) is that of organization. While every original constructive...
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...
by Charlie Said | Oct 20, 2022 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Parliamentary, Strategy, Team Policy, Thinking Strategically, Topicality
There’s few things that make experienced debaters happier than a quality Topicality debate (Hereafter referred to by the common debate lingo of “T”). That’s probably because T is so often mishandled by both teams, to the frustration of...
by Jadon Buzzard | Sep 5, 2022 | Announcements, Best Resources, Coaching, Debate Resources, Ethos Info, Featured, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Team Policy
Almost four years ago, the venerable Thaddeus Tague (former Ethos owner and certified debate genius) wrote “The Unrivaled Success of Ethos Debate.” In the article, Thaddeus lays out the core history and development of Ethos during his involvement with the...
