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Lincoln Garrett

Revenge of the Takes

Ohhhh you thought the musings were over did you? You thought the most popular website about policy debate on the internet (fact check: true) had closed its doors? No no no, just lying in wait until you let your guard down. Until you open yourself up to be barraged by

Belated Clay '20 Fun Takes

You read 3500 words of my earnest feelings and thoughts. We will return to those another day. You have earned some aggro takes I have been keeping in my pocket since the Clatterson. 1. The tags be no good I think people have an appreciation of the first level ups

So Much to Talk About If We Can Talk to Each Other

As the world is imploding for the millionth time in the past seven days, I feel like there is a parallel occurrence in college debate. However, unlike in the real world, where a new thing happens every hour, a lot of what burdens college debate accumulates over years, as issues

GS(N)U '20 Takes

It has been a long hiatus for discourse fueled by musings and takes, but we are back. Something actually useful might happen in this blog post. Preseason is a unique part of the season that most people do not do well. It’s very long, but prone to distractions. You

A Year's Worth of High School Takes on the '19/'20 Topic

An entire topic’s worth of takes in one post? Let’s get to it.

The K and Me

A retrospective on K debate in 2020

Senior Year without the NDT

A guest post by Genevieve Hackman

Best New 1AC Game--And The Best 1AC is...

NTMs! The math: Who submitted what: Article IX—Kentucky (Truf) aff_1---article_ixaff_1---article_ix.docx233 KBdownload-circle Bogota—Dartmouth (Raam) bogotabogota.docx140 KBdownload-circle Commercial RPO's (Marban) aff_3---commercial_rposaff_3---commercial_rpos.docx76 KBdownload-circle Cyber—Northwestern (Joey) aff_7---cyberaff_7---cyber.docx235 KBdownload-circle Hyersponics—George Mason AH aff_2---hypersonicsaff_2---hypersonics.

The Space (Topic) Review: Policy Aff

We are back after a little COVID-19 and moving the entire TOC online delay. Trying something new, posting smaller posts more often. The Weebly comment system is pretty whatever. Catch the thread related to this post by adding me on Facebook if you would like to join the conversation. If

Oh Yea a Debate Tournament Happened---ADA '20 TAKES

1. Will Online Debate Kill In-Person Debate? This is one take I forgot to address in my last post. The argument is that proving online debate works means no university would fund debate travel. First, I am not an expert in the subject because I don’t deal with department