by Isaiah McPeak | Oct 3, 2011 | Strategy
I received a question over the weekend: What’s a Kritical aff and how does it work? I decided to respond to the whole debate community as the issue is so commonly misunderstood. The truth is, people mean several different things when they say “Kritical...
by Drew | Sep 26, 2011 | Strategy
Today’s post is an example of a Kritik and some potential responses. The K itself is geared at a higher level of both debate theory and political theory understanding and the responses also debate at a higher level of debate theory. So first off, here’s a...
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 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...
