Normal Means: You Don’t Know What’s in the Box
What happens when the aff or the neg "wins" normal means?
Topic
Debate Theory
A collection of 6 issues
How to Get Better
This post will not be about improving any specific aspect of your debating, speaking, or research workflow. Instead, we will zoom out and take a macro view of the habits of mind and action that separate great debaters from mediocre ones.
Impact Debating Beyond The Label
Let’s talk about how we can do impact debating better.
Permutations from A to Z—Perm: Do the CP, Part 2
In this post, we will practice putting a perm: do the CP strategy into action by reviewing some speech documents from the most talented, intelligent, and hard-working debate teams in the country.
Permutations from A to Z—Perm: Do the CP, Part 1
In part 1, we learned how competition arguments work when dealing with CP strategies that put their disagreement with the 1AC relatively front-and-center. In this part, we'll learn what to do when the differences aren't so obvious.
Permutations from A to Z—Back to Basics
In this series, we will develop a rigorous approach for choosing a permutation strategy vs any modern process CP. In part one, we will go back to basics, rebuilding our foundational knowledge of competition theory.