by Isaiah McPeak | May 5, 2011 | Coaching, From Novice to Intermediate, Technique
An Ethos Customer asked us: “Could you give tips on developing credibility while maintaining rapport with the judges? Especially for girls. Guys seem to have a slightly easier time of it. I usually give funny and rather pertinent stories as openers for my...
by Isaiah McPeak | May 3, 2011 | Parliamentary, Strategy
See the following three Ethos staff debating in the final round of parli nationals this year: Josiah McPeak, Peter Voell, and Ty Harding. This was the first year that parli debate was offered in high school homeschool leagues. Notice how these awesome debaters still...
by Drew | Apr 16, 2011 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Technique
This will take you 60 seconds to read. I’m heading off to my regional competition tomorrow and naturally I’m preparing so that I can do my best. Now some important background: my speaker points have been progressively getting worse as the season goes on....
by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 23, 2011 | Strategy
I just received an interesting question on some mandates that will be at a tournament this weekend. I believe this will be instructive, because approaching mandates that seem strange can be a difficult and disorganized task. I will recommend the use of Standards,...
by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 8, 2011 | Strategy
Disclaimer: There are no rules in debate strategy, so our answer here is completely debateable. What follows is an argument as to WHY a certain theory is correct. Question from a Debater: “At the past few tournaments, people have run topicality (impacted to a...
by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 7, 2011 | Featured, Parliamentary, Strategy
Zack Voell/Lydia Bode vs. Josiah McPeak/Peter Voell at a recent parli practice. The resolution was: “This house believes that World War 3 is imminent”. Watch and critique (I mean learn… what to not do and what to do). PMC — Zack Voell LOC...
