by Jala Boyer | Oct 11, 2021 | Apologetics, Speech Events, Uncategorized
Each aspect of God holds up a necessary pillar for who God must be if we desire to serve a being who is worthy of worship and service. The character of God is so much more than God simply picking and choosing the type of deity he wants to be; each word we use to...
by Nathanael Morgan | Sep 24, 2021 | Best Resources, Communication/Rhetoric, Technique, Uncategorized
The judge literally didn’t write anything about our disadvantages on the ballot! I don’t understand, they were our most important arguments. The Aff completely dropped them and they were impacted out and everything! Ugh. Sometimes it can be hard to get the...
by D. J. Mendenhall | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
At the third qualifier this past year my and a few of my friends decided to play a game we called impromptu bingo. To play the game we created a 5×5 bingo card of different actions we had to try to include in our limited prep speeches. This included things like...
by Jala Boyer | Sep 16, 2021 | Apologetics, Uncategorized
News Flash! NCFCA rewrote their apologetics topics. Some of them are the same cards they had in the previous years, but NCFCA also added a ton of questions. One of Ethos’s coaches, Luke Castle, suggested the idea to rework and reorganize the new topic list into a few...
by Anthony Severin | Jul 11, 2021 | Advocacy, Basics, Counterplans, Fiat, From Advanced to National-Class, Negative, Theory, Uncategorized
What must an affirmative team do to win a policy debate round? The affirmative should win if they convince the judge that the audience and the debaters are better off if the judge votes affirmative. Conversely, the negative should win if they convince the judge that...
by Anthony Severin | May 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
How many times have you heard it said that affirmatives must “solve beyond a reasonable doubt” or provide a net benefit “beyond a reasonable doubt”? This phrase, “beyond a reasonable doubt,” is a “standard of evidence”–it defines what the judge must believe to...
