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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...
How to Argue Significance Effectively - Mark Roose
In my first three years of debate, I thought significance was a useless stock issue. I went so...
Speaker Positions
Every single year, my partner for that year and I made an unconventional decision: to swap speaker positions...
You Don't Have Time
I get it, highschool is busy. It certainly would be ideal to brief every single affirmative yourself, taking...
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...
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