by Anna Johansen | Feb 20, 2017 | Debate Rounds, Technique, Tournaments
It started the moment my alarm began its song and dance routine, vibrating on the table next to the bed. A spike of instantaneous, high-voltage adrenaline and I shot out of bed and across the room in full panic mode, my fight-or-flight instincts going ballistic. It...
by Harrison Durland | Feb 17, 2017 | Technique
In the past two parts in this series, we’ve delivered a glossary of fallacies for you to use in identifying fallacious argumentation in your next round. However, just calling an argument a fallcy isn’t enough to kill it. So how do you take down fallacies?...
by Anna Johansen | Jan 30, 2017 | Quiz Corner, Technique
Editor’s note: as you will notice, this version of the quiz is no longer accessible. However, a new version of this quiz has been created and shared in a new article. If you’re like me, you’re used to seeing dozens of personality quizzes plastered all over...
by Joshua Anumolu | Jan 23, 2017 | Coaching, Soapbox, Technique
The ancient Greek philosopher and rhetorician Gorgias was a very talented orator. He was so persuasive that he said he could persuade people into believing him through charlatanry, which led to the term “sophistry.” Socrates labeled sophistry as a manipulative form of...
by Noah Howard | Dec 30, 2016 | Coaching, Communication/Rhetoric, From Intermediate to Advanced, Technique
At my first debate camp, I learned to debate within a structure that made my nerves go away and my confidence appear. At my first practice tournament, I argued within a framework that allowed me to understand the complex ideas that I was discussing. And at my first...
by Isaiah McPeak | Dec 21, 2016 | Best Resources, Bonus Evidence, DebateSmart, Strategy, Technique, Thinking Strategically
Debate, the Ultimate 21st Century Skill (if you pursue it as such) Ask ten different people, get ten different answers. Kind of like when people find out my wife and I met in a debate, they assume we argue a whole lot… and I politely remind them that “nobody is...
