by Lisa Alexander | Apr 9, 2010 | Strategy
The key to this last week is organization and preparation. 1. Now that you have gone through all of your negative briefs and developed great arguments, make sure that they are organized. If your binders aren’t labeled, do so now. Make sure your generic evidence...
by Lisa Alexander | Apr 6, 2010 | Strategy
Now that you have a good caselist and have your 1AC all put together, it is time to work on negative. 1. First step is to get with your partner and go through the caselist one by one. Set out your negative strategy for each of the affirmatives. The negative strategy...
by Lisa Alexander | Apr 3, 2010 | Strategy
One of the questions I get asked is how to prep for regionals. Here are a few steps that will help you out. 1. Polish your 1AC and get it in good shape. Re-visit all of your affirmative evidence, check your citations, check the quality of your evidence, check your...
by Lisa Alexander | Mar 31, 2010 | Research Tips
It is that time of year again. We are headed into regionals and teams are gearing up with new cases, new negatives, and new evidence. It is also the time of year when people start sending me their cases and evidence to critique as well as negative briefs to critique....
by Zack Voell | Mar 22, 2010 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Strategy
After having an absolute amazing time debating and speeching at the Massachusetts National Open, one of the things that my partner and I learned was to point out any possible contradictions in our opponents arguments, whether affirmative or negative. This may seem...
by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 18, 2010 | From Novice to Intermediate, Technique
I recently went with the PHC team to NCCFI (‘Christian Nationals’) and judged about 11 rounds of debate. My favorite was quarterfinals in parli where it was Grove City on GOV vs. Pt. Loma on OPP (same team that won the tournament). Both teams had one...
