by Jeremiah Mosbey | Apr 10, 2021 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Negative, Strategy, Team Policy
https://pixabay.com/photos/stress-ball-anti-stress-ball-6071852/ You’ve just delivered the greatest 2NR of your life. Certain that you’ve just won the round, you sit back in your seat with a grin. There may be one more speech left, but the round is essentially over....
by Patrick McDonald | Apr 8, 2021 | Negative, Team Policy
“I voted for your opponents because lives are important.” Staring disappointedly at that solitary sentence, I felt overwhelmingly perplexed and perhaps even a tad disappointed. It has happened to all of us: you compete in a debate, you feel sure that 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 Ellie Harris | Mar 26, 2021 | Advocacy, From Intermediate to Advanced
Carefully read a list of numbers, wait a minute or two, and then try to recall as many of those numbers as you can. It’ll probably be easiest to remember the first and last few numbers. That’s because your brain is wired to recall things in order of primacy and...
by Jeremiah Mosbey | Feb 9, 2021 | Fiat, From Novice to Intermediate, Team Policy
If you’ve been in debate for any length of time, you’re probably well aware of the principle of fiat power. You’ve read about it in debate manuals, learned about it in camp, and probably even argued it in actual rounds. In fact, it’s even addressed in other Ethos...
by Nathan Wang | Feb 5, 2021 | From Novice to Intermediate, Team Policy
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should add more seats to the supreme court. What are your first thoughts from reading this resolution? Well, if you think like me, you’re thinking about all the reasons why the supreme court needs more justices. My...
