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The role and limitations of stock issues - by Victor Joecks
The first insight is that every Team Policy debate round contains two separate debates. The first is on whether...
Why Good Cases Lose in Elimination Rounds - Mark Roose
What is the difference between Affirmative cases that win locally and those that win NITOC? The real question...
Speaker Positions
Every single year, my partner for that year and I made an unconventional decision: to swap speaker positions...
Kairos: the Forgotten Mode of Persuasion
Have you ever had too much evidence? A brief that covers all your bases? This can be overwhelming....
You've Been Emphasizing the Wrong Impact This Whole Time
By Coach Joshua Spivey Have a disproportionate win rate on aff or neg? Most people do. Want...
Solving All Your 1AC Problems in Under 3 Minutes
Coach Mark Roose In this short blog, I am going to show you how to solve all...
Squirrels Aren't Competitive
By Coach Brad Tomasovic We were living in dread. My partner and I had been running the same...
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