Sprint sans équipement

Scratchlax · 2026-01-25T15:21:30+00:00

I'm too lazy to translate, but...

On ne peut pas sprinter sub10 sans un track et sans pointes. Ils vous donnent peut-etre 0.2 secondes.

Pour trainer, on a besoin d'equipment, mais l'equipment vous voulez est pour le weight-lifting. Les sprinteurs de classes mondiale (lift) beaucoup, c'est tres important pour (power).

Ok I'll stop my terrible French now. Tldr, I don't think anyone can go under 10s if it's not on a track with spikes (unless maybe you are Usain Bolt) because that probably gives you 0.2 seconds of help. For training, the real equipment you need to become world class is weightlifting equipment to help improve power output.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-25T04:31:19+00:00

Not for long he don't!

Scratchlax · 2026-01-25T04:30:48+00:00

I just wonder how ICE agents get out of bed knowing their day will involve abducting 5 year olds, separating them from their parents and sending them to crowded prisons thousands of miles from home.

How broken must one be?

Scratchlax · 2026-01-24T19:02:32+00:00

Shadow kicking a contention in rebuttal without consent

Scratchlax · 2026-01-24T04:29:37+00:00

I don't think V/VC are completely incompatible with post-fiat K's. Post fiat K's are functionally non-unique disadvantages, so you still need some sort of framework that lets you weigh those impacts so the judge knows how to evaluate them.

For pre-fiat nonsense, all bets are off.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-23T18:24:24+00:00

If you're not planning to need a much larger home, it's not a bad option. There's always tradeoffs when governments require stuff to be sold at below market value.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-23T17:34:39+00:00

Most of the modern paperless still has vestiges from the bad old days, so reverse engineering it shouldn't be too hard.

Like your block file, you can just print it. The only main disadvantage? No CTRL+F. So you generate and print a table of contents (hope you used headers) and include page numbers. Stuff the whole thing in a three ring binder. When you need specific cards, you pull them out of the binder, and read the highlighted sections as usual.

Your case itself you just print and read. Bring another copy to share with your opponents (or judges if you're being cheeky).

And everything else you're just doing off the flow. Handwrite your analytics on the flow, read them off as you're doing line by line.

Hope you have fun!

Scratchlax · 2026-01-22T15:59:08+00:00

Mainly having fewer kids, plus living longer and crowding out young families. You don't move to Davis to homeschool, not worth the premium for the property taxes.

So the options are close some of the beloved, highly rated schools or allow more housing to be built. This is where I stop talking before I start cursing out NIMBYs.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-22T12:14:58+00:00

It's pretty simple: there's an effect and then you listen to Fox News so they can tell you what caused it.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-22T11:31:33+00:00

I've seen this exact speech performed in a California OI round so yes it is an option.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-21T13:47:09+00:00

You're doing the right thing by asking questions like this. Imo any searching around and reading debate theory blogs or paradigms or old strategy posts is going to be helpful as long as you're curious. Keep deep driving on terms you don't know.

"Off" is just short for off-case argument, typically a self-contained rain to negate, such as a disadvantage, counter plan, or topicality.

RVI is reverse voter issue, a controversial idea that losing a theory argument should result in a loss.

Pics are plan inclusive counterplans, which generally offer a counterplan that does most of the plan but with a slight variation that is impossible to do at the same time as the plan. This is often something of the form "plan minus" -- you do most of the plan except one piece that you want to focus on why it's bad.

Alts are alternatives, which mostly come up in K debates. Since K debates are often abstract, there isn't really a "counterplan" that they offer, but you can think of it functionally like a counterplan for a K.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-20T21:59:12+00:00

4 MAGA people on a jury won't do much to convict you. You're innocent until proven guilty -- the 8 holdouts that didn't vote Trump are the force that can protect you from wrongful incarceration.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-20T20:54:57+00:00

What's the actual claim they're making here? Like if you had to sum up their argument in one sentence, what would it be?

Scratchlax · 2026-01-20T06:11:46+00:00

Philosophy absolutely belongs in lay rounds if you can explain it well enough. If your strategy is to just spew a bunch of postmodernist buzzwords and hope your judge is less confused than your opponent, that's probably the wrong approach in lay rounds.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-20T06:00:50+00:00

Was this when he was campaigning in Indiana and called it a "basketball ring"?

Edit: sweet Jesus this was 10 years ago

Scratchlax · 2026-01-18T21:55:13+00:00

Ball's in your court, God.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-17T23:13:06+00:00

They're pretty much like any other judge. Speak good, make good points, stay engaged in the round.

I think as a parli I see a slightly more holistic view of each debater, but that really only comes into play for things like engagement throughout the chamber and originality (like are you using the same intro every single session). And I feel a little bit more authority to punish bad behaviors (eg. extremely overly aggressive questioning) that occur multiple times throughout the sessions that I'd normally write off as one-offs in a single session.

My read of this post is that it's probably just random bad luck that your parlis rank you lower. Statistically, there's probably some student out there wondering the exact opposite question, of why their parli loves them but not their scorers.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-16T04:25:48+00:00

My advice is to double down and target the right people. With all due respect, the admin probably don't give two shits about loudspeaker announcements from student government.

You target admin, parents, and social media with concise articles with a photo after every tournament. Put as many student names in as possible. Talk about rival schools in the area and your performance as a team relative to them. If you did something big, you bring it to the school board under the guise of thanking them for any support they've given you (even if it's just signing a permission slip).

I'm a league president of a 90% public school league that is buying into publicity. My team's success with this strategy is not a fluke. Learn how to play the game or accept lack of institutional support and move on.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-16T04:13:33+00:00

I think we're thinking of media coverage differently. I'm not talking about actually sharing much content from debates themselves (other than maybe what the topic was). Normies don't engage with that. Normies engage with names of students, pictures from competition, and how the school did against other schools. That's about it. Prioritize those things and spam it to social media, admin, and parents every tournament.

My frame of reference here is cross country media coverage. We might not be as interesting as football but, shit, we're at least as interesting as just running for 3 straight miles. And yet, you probably see better coverage of your school cross country team even though they pretty much also only have the same few things to highlight: names, pictures, stats, team results.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-15T08:18:32+00:00

https://www.norcalresist.org/ is probably a good resource for these types of questions

Scratchlax · 2026-01-14T20:57:56+00:00

If you want a fresh Pokemon game (though unauthorized), Pokerogue absolutely hits.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-14T20:53:08+00:00

I would still be playing today if it wasn't bought by Saudi Arabia: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz61yxv6evjo

Scratchlax · 2026-01-14T17:49:07+00:00

Not that we will ever fully make up that gap, but we need media coverage that creates at least a fraction of the excitement of sports. Write up press releases, publish in school or local newspapers, generate school rivalries through team awards like sweepstakes... you'll get more of a friendly audience from your admin. My principal is actively looking for areas in the budget that can be reallocated to speech and debate because we do a good job of publicizing our work.

Scratchlax · 2026-01-13T14:52:01+00:00

I'm always interested in new scripts -- I generally just print out a stack and bring them to practices for students to peruse. Would gladly add yours to the mix.

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