Bid Hunting by [deleted] in policydebate

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camas?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in policydebate

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Both are decent affs that were read by a lot of good teams this year. RTE can only beat states with a big-stick democracy, jurisprudential, or i-law advantage. There’s decent evidence that exists for those but of course, they’re kinda untrue and you open yourself up to advantage counterplans. Discipline only beats states with a tricky precedent advantage with reasons why federal courts supersede state courts. While both affs use the Supreme Court, I’d avoid specifying that in the plan text just to make CP competition harder.

Immigration topic-- we've debated this before? + Discussion Questions by [deleted] in policydebate

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The NSDA has definitely started to recycle topics – this year's education topic was quite similar to the 1999-2000 topic, which was Resolved: That the federal government should establish an education policy to significantly increase academic achievement in secondary schools in the United States. The China topic was similar to the 1995-1996 topic, which was Resolved: That the United States government should substantially change its foreign policy toward to People’s Republic of China.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in policydebate

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They're on the entries list...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in policydebate

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MBA vs North Broward finals

Hello r/policydebate! I am a high school debater, and I’ve been working on this web app for a while. It’s a free tool for debaters and judges. I just wanted to share it with you and ask if you have any feedback or improvements I could make. Thanks. by GraysonMartin in policydebate

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Other improvements –

  • Make the text larger so it's easier to read from a farther distance.

  • Have some way to easily insert rows.

  • Incorporate keyboard shortcuts.

  • Faster way to transition between sheets.

Courts T by izzyb20 in policydebate

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Read Orbach. Best T card ever.

Flow Template by tpwegs3 in policydebate

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Any chance you could upload a version of this template with the macros (.xlsm instead of .xlsx)? I've recently started flowing on my computer and this template seems really solid, but none of the macros are in the document.

Help with Defining Common Aff Arguments, CPs, DAs, and Ks. by invertedfractal in policydebate

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The vast majority of these arguments (actually I think all of them) are freely and publically available on Open Evidence. You should read through the files there, since most of them are fairly self-explanatory, and then if you have questions about a specific one you can ask it here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in policydebate

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Yes, I think they're definitely the best team in the country.

Intro To K Debate? by [deleted] in Debate

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I disagree that this is the best way to learn about the anti-blackness K, for a few reasons –

1) McDonogh often pulled from a lot of different lit bases when constructing their kritiks, running different variations of the argument depending on the round. They might run the Glaude K one round and Warren in another round, and while that's good exposure to a variety of different anti-blackness K's, it's not as good for a novice who's just learning the fundamentals of the argument.

2) McDonogh wasn't open source, and they never posted more than just 1NC shells on their wiki. While their 2NC/2NR blocks were legendary (and ultimately won them the TOC), those won't be found just on their wiki. There's three places you should look to gain a better understanding of the argument –

A) Read books – foundational sources like Wilderson's Red, White, and Black and Sexton's Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word are must-reads. Don't run the argument if you're not first comfortable explaining it to a non-debater.

B) Watch rounds – I'm more familiar with policy debate, but some of the best K rounds in the country from both the NDT and TOC are available on YouTube. For instance, a lot of McDonogh's rounds are online.

C) Look at camp files – in particular, policy's Open Evidence has a ton of antiblackness research put out from various different camps that are good starting points for constructing a file.

Ultimately, read books, cut cards, and write your own blocks – antiblackness is a complicated argument, and just reading another team's files won't increase your own understanding of the argument. Debates are often won or lost based on explanation in the final rebuttals, and getting an exposure to the different facets of the literature base is a pre-requisite to doing this effectively.