by Noah Howard | Jan 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
…I wish you would’ve spent a little more time responding to their solvency argument… GOV team spent a lot of time defending but completely ignored the crux… I didn’t really fully understand how your Korea example applied… Ever gotten comments...
by Noah Farley | Dec 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
In my last post, I talked about the different types of burden scopes for different resolutions. In this post, I intend to address how to identify the different burden scopes you see in debate resolutions. Let’s look at three examples. Policy Resolutions I touched on...
by Joshua Farquhar | Dec 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Quite a few sports have been suggested as the real “gentleman’s sport.” Golf, tennis, fencing, motorsports…these have all held the title. There is one sport, however, that supersedes all of these. One sport that combines everyday life, procedures, and...
by Noah Farley | Nov 14, 2017 | Debate Rounds, Parliamentary, Strategy, The Parli Station, Uncategorized
Time for some new theory. Only a couple weeks ago, I was doing some Parliamentary debate. We were Opposition, and the debate had come down to the mass of historical examples on our side vs. the Government’s contention that the resolution was necessarily true. They...
by Joshua Hu | Nov 11, 2017 | From Intermediate to Advanced, From Novice to Intermediate, Parliamentary, Technique, Uncategorized
We’ve all dealt with it. Whether you were working on dropping your mile time, increasing your vertical, or improving your speaking skills, you’ve probably faced the unfortunate reality of the “Law of Diminishing Returns”. Contrary to what we may think, people do not...
by emilyerose | Sep 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
The single best way to improve in speech and debate is through practice. Your average competitor takes the first 2-3 fall tournaments to get that practice and fall into the groove. You don’t have to be like them. Ziggy Debate offers 10 online rounds of Fall...
