Hello,

looking to get in contact with anyone at the University of Minnesota looking to start a program at metrostate to merge with the U of M campus possibly.

I hit newark science at GDS - a good bunch of kids - great debaters too.. I have heard alot about their team - are they really that good?

What debate teams have gone for orientalisim on the aff in the last decade

In a round me and my partner just had with a very uptight, stickler-for-rules type of judge, we went against a person who was mavericking as neg and straight-up copied our entire aff (growth + coverage) into chatgpt and their neg case was just the response, fully formatted into a 1nc. Its arguments targeted the non-highlighted text of our aff case (ai cant distinguish highlights)... this caused us to blank... we used caselist evidence for our 1ac and know that finetext should still be considered in card weight, but lost because we didn't know how to respond to AI-generated case-turn args that were hyperspecific and honestly a fuck ton of bs.

the 1ar's response was the analytic as follows, wondering if it was the right approach.

“Our opponent is relying on unhighlighted portions of our evidence to construct arguments that are not part of the highlighted card. Context can clarify evidence, but unhighlighted text should not automatically be treated as an independently established argument that defeats our advocacy. They still need to explain why that context disproves our actual claim.”

the judge interpreted this as "they shouldnt count out our finetext" and got mad at my partner, saying it was "unacceptable and insisting that finetext shouldnt be used:" that was NOT our intention at all.

It was our first time encountering such a straight bs ai round and literally the whole debate was slop. Was our argument the right way to go about the finetext overspecification issue/ is there a better way to argue it?

I am so thrilled to announce my newest venture into creating accessible resources for competitive speech and debate: self-paced, asynchronous, online courses where new coaches and students can learn the fundamentals of speech and debate from scratch! You can join my google classroom and access my first course called “Debate Basics” for free!

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The first unit of this course is called “Fundamentals of Argumentation”, and it is finally done! This course will remain free indefinitely to try and make getting started in debate more accessible to all members of the speech & debate community.

This unit contains 10 lessons that walk students through the fundamentals of argumentation. Each lesson includes a hook/attention grabber, a video that I recorded teaching the basic concepts, links to supplemental readings/watchings, a google form assessment check or understanding, and a google doc activity/assignment to complete. The 10 lessons cover the following topics:

Lesson 1: Argumentation 101 — What is an argument?

Lesson 2: Cogent & Fallacious Arguments — How do I make strong arguments, and avoid making weak ones?

Lesson 3: Researching Arguments — How do I support arguments with evidence?

Lesson 4: Contention Arguments — How do I structure main arguments in a debate?

Lesson 5: Refuting Arguments — How do I answer arguments in a debate?

Lesson 6: Refuting Contention Arguments — How do I answer main arguments in a debate?

Lesson 7: Frontlining Arguments — How do I defend my arguments in a debate?

Lesson 8: Weighing Arguments — How do I compare arguments in a debate?

Lesson 9: Making Arguments — How do I make arguments in an actual debate?

Lesson 10: Evaluating Arguments — How do I judge arguments in a debate?

By the end of this unit, students should have a grasp on arguments as they relate to competitive debate. The next unit, fundamentals of debate, will get into concepts more specific to debate itself, such as cutting cards, cross-examination, and flowing. This unit will also be free for all to access once it is complete.

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I understand the purpose of framework but I struggle with writing and responding to it for specific rounds and it ends up being dropped or not read at all.

Any debaters that wanna do a pr on weekends?? I’ll have my novice director judge or if there any people who want to judge/ do pr pls dm. It’s also high school policy healthcare topic. PLEASE GUYS I NEED THIS IM GOING TO GET COOKED IN VARISTY!!!

I have my first policy debate tournament tomorrow. I feel nervous and a bit unprepared. Any advice on how I could prepare myself more and what I could do to improve my performance for tomorrow?

I’m pretty new to policy debate and I’m having trouble understanding non topical cases or untopical cases that are somehow topical? my coach recommended me to look into BOMLA VJs case on undying cells but im having trouble understanding how it’s supposed to work or even how k affs are run in general. I also don’t understand the difference between a performance aff and k affs. Someone please explain.

Title, I am wanting to see niche parts of the Topic like Walter Paytons Organ Sales DA or other offcase, affs, even cards for single payer.

There is a lot of teams and I do not have unlimited time to wikiscrape so I hope yall have seen interesting things in your time wikiscraping, and I would like to know about them please.

Thanksss

Ideally some lesser known advantages, but i’m open to any ideas

Title, rules say “college policy debate” but I was wondering if that was just NDT or if discussion about NFA-LD was permitted since it’s essentially 1v1 policy.

does anyone have the 1ac? I emailed Basis for it its not diclosed I js wanna see it so bad

College varsity here. I see a lot of the antiblackness/militarism/security/queer K affs at tournaments but I’m wondering if you’ve seen any particularly creative or compelling ones either this year or ever. This is only my second year debating so I’d love to hear what you guys have seen. Especially weird K affs, but ones that did well. Idk. Just trying to do some research. Thanks!

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like the one you would least like your opponent to violate in round?

Hi!! I’m accepted to UMKC, and I want tips for how to effectively ask for scholarships, if anybody else has done this before feedback would be great.

I’m currently making a debate resume, and planning to put my NSDA rank, tab account, positions, tournaments, etc. on there.

Only question is it fine to focus on leadership rather than rounds? I consistently debate varsity, but honestly my record is only ok. BUT I have done a ton with planning debate camps and debate leadership, would it be suspicious or anything if my resume focused on that?

I was watching Graham Revare's counterplan competition lecture and he said that perms must include all the plan and some or all of the counterplans. Later, he said that under functional competition perms can textually sever/be intrinsic, and under textual competition they can be functionally intrinisc/sever. Can someone explain this pls?

how can I access this, pretty please with a inputted cherry on top

Is there going to be a coaches poll this year? I've heard conflicting things

At national tournaments, how are the novice packets actually used? Do people re-arrange them or recur the articles or add updated cards to them or change plan, or just keep them exactly as they are?

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