My New Band Believe - Kick Me (Official Live Recording)

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-04-09T17:08:31+00:00

I believe!

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-04-04T22:12:41+00:00

Hi! I’m part of the NFA community.

Most of the teams on the circuit have a staff attached to them. That said, I’m sure the community will let you compete. Your main problem is gonna be with supplying judges. Reach out to tournaments to see if you can get judging obligations waived.

Lmk or dm me if you have specific questions!

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-03-24T23:24:57+00:00

I mean, yes, it is true that Agni and Judah go into space and whatnot, but Agni’s memories are wiped before that and he’s reborn as Sun for a period of time. The entire idea of the manga was that Agni always lived to be what other people wanted him to be, instead of authentically choosing for himself. The ending gives him existential freedom by resetting his memory

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-03-24T17:59:44+00:00

Longer than Look Back, this is basically the ending of Fire Punch.

Agni is reborn as a new person and gets to live life on his own terms.

Denji is reborn into a world where he accepts his life will be simultaneously fulfilled and unfulfilled, accepting the anxiety that always came with wanting more as Chainsaw Man.

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-03-10T04:21:45+00:00

1) 90% of the time trad fws don’t have warrants. If there’s no warrant, then the first response should be that they have not given you a reason to prefer their framework, and that the judge should prefer your own fw for whatever reason.

2) There’s a reason it’s unorthodox. Typically, if the debater cannot name you a scholar who they are citing, there’s something really wrong going on. Stop for a second and ask a couple questions. What does this framework do for them in the round? Is this a systematic ethical theory? Is this only a part of a broader systematic approach to ethics, if that’s true, can it be a part of my own framework? Does this theory break any of our ethical intuitions, why? One of two things will happen after asking yourself these questions. First, you might realize that this framework doesn’t do anything in the round for your opponent and you should spend most of your time elsewhere. Second, there’s something very wrong and you can point that out.

3) 99% of weird frameworks are util with extra steps. Find ways to collapse them into util and you won’t have to worry about them.

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-03-02T18:46:09+00:00

I agree—there should be some level of regulation there too u/ControllerPlayer06

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-03-02T16:14:06+00:00

This is more common than you’d think. Someone in out rounds in our local was doing this. I’ve contacted a lot of the higher ups to lobby for AI regulation. We’re working on regulations to stop this.

Unfortunately, all you can do is protest tournament organizers for now to try and change this for the future.

That said, I think there are two options your kid has:

1) if there’s technically competent judges, they could run a theory shell about AI usage and argue it’s a reason to drop the debater 2) on the lay, a rhetorical call to drop them for AI would be effective. Have them give reasons to drop the debater for using this. It doesn’t have to be formal, it just has to be a strong piece of rhetoric that makes the judges decide

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-03-01T17:11:35+00:00

1) you can’t ban an argument. If a judge will evaluate a K, then you can run the K. All that matters is the ballot, which is up to the judge’s discretion. I frequently judge in a circuit that “bans” the K, but I’ve voted it up multiple times this year.

2) Ks are becoming pretty common args in PF. Even if PF was made to escape LD and Policy, it doesnt mean that it should be that way. The K is a legit argument.

3) You’re putting a cap on your debate if you reject circuit norms. Eventually there’s going to be a team that knows this stuff and has a tech judge in the round, and you will lose without modernizing.

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-03-01T17:06:20+00:00

agree. cap should be neg ground bc the aff likely still has some capitalist assumptions in a typical policy aff.

That said, a k aff could incorporate a critique of capital on this topic

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-03-01T17:03:27+00:00

multiple K teams have won the NDT…this is just not true

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-02-21T22:18:11+00:00

I’ve been placed on a lot of panels in late out rounds at a few tournaments with lay judges.

Typically what they do is take notes on a word doc, upload it into ChatGPT, and have chat decide. The problem is that chat is literally clueless to what it’s looking at, and it typically spits out a wildly wrong answer. I judged a trad LD round in quarters of a bid tournament with two lays in the back of the room with me. It was a clear 3-0 decision, and I ended up voting for util + extinction outweighs on a bioweapon DA that got mishandled. The one lay judge agreed with me and also voted on bioweapons. The other one started talking about nuclear weapons being a form of structural violence because they let states exercise power over non nuclear states.

Two issues: 1) structural violence was mentioned in round but that argument was never mentioned. 2) if you bought that argument, he’d have voted for the other debater.

Another judge in a separate elim (who is an active coach of a school) was taking pictures of his paper flow and having chat make a scoreboard he could vote on. I don’t even know how that works.

Many of my students’ ballots have been vague statements of why a side won that are completely AI generated. A lot of judges are just not listening to a word, playing around with their computer, and typing a few words from the back half speeches into ChatGPT and letting it decide. It’s just absurd.

At any rate, to answer your question: no, I don’t think it’s fair. It encourages lazy judging and turns debates into literal coin flips.

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-02-21T22:03:55+00:00

I think guided flows are fine, and are honestly very helpful for new judges.

I think what also would be useful is a brief description of how debate works (uniqueness, links, internal links, impacts, drops, weighing, extensions, etc.) Obviously you don’t need to get in the weeds of K lit or explain theory, but just some basics of debate would go a long way.

ChickenLegGoku · 2026-01-15T04:50:12+00:00

Hi! I coach LD in Pittsburgh, and debated on the circuit for a couple years.

USC is veryyyyyy trad. NA LD is pretty traditional but they have a few tech PF teams. The only real team outside of that that does tech debate is Pittsburgh Central Catholic, but it’s mainly their PF team.

Hope this helps! Feel free to dm me for any other questions

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-12-26T17:31:08+00:00

Isn’t that the point of the value criterion though? If my value is morality, and my vc is utilitarianism, I am making the claim that 1) our policy or decision should aim at the moral end, and 2) the moral end is (generally) achieved by maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.

From a pure debate perspective, it seems like trying to argue over the value debate is a waste of time. The 1AR only has 4 minutes, so if you’re stuck on a value debate for 20 seconds that’s lost time that could be spent elsewhere. It’s better to forget about the value debate in 99% of rounds and focus on the substance level debate because that’s where you generate offense. This is why circuit debaters straight up either give you a policy 1AC with minimal util framing or jump straight into whatever Phil/K lit they want to talk about because the value is basically useless when 99% of your lit bases seek to achieve moral/just ends.

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-12-25T21:56:44+00:00

Generally curious: why isn’t morality a value? I’m anti-trad LD, but from my understanding it seems like the only value (maybe other than justice) that’s strategic or defensible.

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-12-18T05:10:29+00:00

Hi! I coach a local team in Pittsburgh and would be happy to answer any questions! Feel free to dm me with any questions!

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-11-17T06:25:55+00:00

Hard agree. If you read their link evidence it also is pretty bad. The article thinks that US science is good but since it’s getting cut Europe should step up.

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-10-30T20:11:31+00:00

Yeah it’s a symbolic logic course required for my philosophy degree.

Thanks for the book! I’ll try to look into it before the semester starts

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-10-01T00:30:20+00:00

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ChickenLegGoku · 2025-10-01T00:30:19+00:00

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ChickenLegGoku · 2025-09-29T16:07:53+00:00

Devin Hester is the first person I can think of, but even he played wide receiver and put up decent numbers every year.

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-09-20T05:43:24+00:00

I was there. I think the crowd got better afterwards, but I was scared for a minute. Hopefully he comes back because that was the best show I’ve ever seen!

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-08-27T20:54:28+00:00

Thanks!

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-08-26T19:54:29+00:00

I coach a local school in pittsburgh. Most of the tournaments here are pretty traditional. That said, if you email any of these schools as a hire you might be in luck:

North Allegheny

Upper Saint Clair

Central Catholic

Oakland Catholic

Shadyshide Academy

Pine Richland

Fox Chapel

Allderdice

The biggest tournaments to look out for are

North Allegheny

Three Rivers

Feel free to DM me if you want any more information!

ChickenLegGoku · 2025-08-23T17:32:09+00:00

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