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I have my first Jan/Feb tournament today and I am stressing -@lincolndouglas

That’s rough, buddy. Just swallow down that nervousness and be confident. Review your cards, make sure you know what you’re talking about, and discuss with other LD debaters. You got this!

hungoverjudge

Fun Exercise for Novices, part 1

One of the big fears that I had as a novice, and one of the things I see as a coach, is that a lot of new debaters think they don’t know enough to argue effectively. That’s not true. You know more than you think you do.

Here’s the “fun” exercise I use to help new debaters realize this. Let’s just assume this whole scenario is true:

Every year, the coastal city of San Alfonzo puts on a fireworks show. It’s something they’re famous for doing. this year, city organizers have considered doubling the size of the fireworks show, using twice as many fireworks. The city of San Alfonzo is also known for the annual migration of the threatened, but not endangered, Schoonover Whales. These whales pass near the city at around the same time as the fireworks show.

Without doing any research, I want you to argue in favor of one of these sides:

1. the larger fireworks display will have a negative effect on the whales

2. the larger fireworks display will NOT have a negative effect on the whales. (either there will be no effect, or there will be a positive effect)

take like 5 minutes to come up with reasons for your side. These don’t have to be super scientific or technical, but they should be able to be things you could argue without laughing.

“But Hungoverjudge! I don’t know anything about Schoonover whales, or how fireworks affect them” That’s fine. But you know some pretty obvious things: the ocean is pretty big, fireworks are made of chemicals that you’re not supposed to eat, etc. Use this information when you make your arguments.

Now, when you do debate, you can use these skills, and this background of pretty obvious knowledge to refute arguments that an opponent makes that seem untrue. I’m not suggesting that you can just make up a claim that seems true and expect it to defeat some evidence from a peer-reviewed journal. What I am suggesting is that you can run an opponent’s claims past a sort of “is this really true?” filter. For example, I judged a varsity final round, where a necessary link in the argument chain was “people who work in the criminal justice system want to be like Batman”.

allaboutdebate

i was a cute, likeable, and respectful freshman and i expect nothing less of my novices

#agreed

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National Circuit Teams

#L I T E R A L L Y #like when my friends from private schools tell me they're only doing university tournaments im like??????????//

I'll have a topic analysis of the new topic (nuclear power) up in a couple days! Probably by Saturday (8/13)

p0stings

i cannot wait to see how many people will be playing pokemon go this upcoming year during tournaments : - )

it’s either going to go to pieces or be really, really, fun

aspec-ospec-blog

Same, I’m excited to see Pokemon Go played at debate camp

solvensea

i went to snfi debate camp and i can confirm that the first thing the camp office told us was to “uninstall pokemon go”

heck, they even blacklisted it from the wifi

I need to make a ton of posts so I can make an LD master post hmm

Do you have any insight/good sources for the carbon pricing topic in LD? I just found your tumblr and am stressing out about the Aff

I totally do, actually!! See below the cut.

Well, obviously to go about the topic, we need to understand what carbon pricing is. Carbon pricing is “a cost applied to carbon pollution to encourage polluters to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas they emit into the atmosphere.”

Most people consider carbon pricing to be the most effective way of reducing carbon emissions, especially from a large country with huge industries that emit a ton of carbon into the atmosphere like the U.S.

That being said, the AFF has an obvious advantage with this topic. You could pretty much take this anywhere you wanna go.

The goals of an affirmative debater, however, are two things:

1. Determine why the specified actor in the resolution (in this case, the U.S.) needs to be the actor specifically.

2. Make a case as to why said actor should do (whatever the resolution says it’s going to do).

I usually suggest to every LDer (especially those who are novices or first-year varsities) that you should always have a Stock AFF on you.

(Note: In case you didn’t know, a stock case would be a basic case that’s not technical or progressive. For example: if your topic is “you should always wear sunscreen,” a stock argument would be “the sun can burn you” versus a progressive argument which would be something like “the concept of sunscreen is based on a capitalist agenda to get consumers to buy more.” Or something like that. Whatever.)

Anyways, you really can’t go wrong with having a stock argument just in case. Especially if you debate local circuit. You get tons of parent judges that way, and they respond much better to traditionally structured cases versus progressive ones.

That being said. You could take a stock argument anywhere. Your best bet with that would be a simple breakdown of “1. Climate Change is real and affected by carbon emissions. 2. The U.S. releases ___ amount of carbon emissions each day/month/year/whatever and __% of this is from industries that can be controlled by carbon pricing. 3. Carbon Pricing would have a positive effect on the U.S.”

This is pretty straightforward stuff. I would recommend cutting cards for this kind of stock or at least reading up on the arguments from here, here, and here (NOTE: these links are all certified studies of carbon pricing from 2015 or later). I would also recommend having backup cards as to why the United States (and therefore, the U.S. government) should the main actor in this resolution. You could honestly just make that shit up.

Remember that a big argument with any topic that specifies a government as the actor- especially from a conservative (or faux-conservative) opponent- could revolve entirely around the fear of extreme government control/tyranny.

Along with a stock argument, it’s important to have another case with you when you debate. This is useful because you can then evaluate your round setting before starting and have the appropriate case to choose. I usually have 2 or 3 cases per side (Aff/Neg) for every topic just to be safe. You can never go wrong. Especially when every topic lasts like two months.

I usually make the non-stock cases HELLA progressive/techy. I haven’t really analyzed the carbon pricing topic 100% though yet so you may need to get back to me on this, but a case I might make would be sort of like a Cap K?

Like I would just say that the apathy of industries in the United States in the face of environmental degradation is a mechanism of capitalism and the need to deplete natural, non-renewable resources (like, in this case, clean air) is a result of a corporate need to make money regardless of global consequences.

I would then link to that an example of one from history. Which, you know, should be easy. Literally pick anything. I would just make sure to keep it air-related and U.S-centric.

For an impact, I would just get into more detail about what that’s done, what that’s going to be doing to the us, the environment, the economy, etc. Maybe make a point about how lobbyists make the government (which is inherently capitalist anyways) make these awful decisions and do nothing to create carbon pricing, and how that’s also a mechanism of capitalism. Talk about how, historically, corporations could never be trusted.

You need an alternative too, but you could just really leave it as a rejection sort of thing. Like “because of this, capitalism is problematic and degrades our environment and therefore the system will never change and all we can do is burn it down #anarchy.” But if you wanted to write a real alternative, I would just say something like “therefore, a political revolution or banning lobbyists and taking control away from corporations is our only hope.”

You could read up on this and maybe find some nice info for cards here, here, and here.

These are just two directions you could take this topic. You could talk about the long-term economic benefits of carbon pricing. You could talk about the benefits of having government regulation of corporate affairs in a non-Cap K way. You could somehow (I don’t know how and I don’t encourage this so don’t ask) stick some ecofeminism in there. Just for funsies.

Anyways. That’s as much insight on the topic as I can possibly have at 2:33AM (when I’m writing this, though I’m posting it later), so if you still have any questions or want me to go deeper into anything that I explained or briefly mentioned, please let me know. Seriously. There are no dumb questions.

#carbon pricing #Lincoln Douglas #ld #debate #nsda #speech and debate #ld topic analysis

p0stings

how 2 find ur next interp piece:

go to wikipedia

on the left hand column, select “random article”

click that until you get a valid piece of media

perform

win hearts

win trophies

#sHI T

ok it's summer so I needa start analyzing new topics and making posts buds we r headed into DEBATE MODE OVERDRIVE

debatecamp

Debate Camp is In Session!

Welcome to the 2016 Summer Online Lincoln-Douglas (LD) Debate Camp, Organized by the Boxer Institute for Debate and Speech! At the Boxer Institute, we combine 20+ years of debate experience in order to create a meaningful learning experience for High School students who do not otherwise have the opportunity to attend existing Lincoln-Douglas debate camps.

As a participant, you will receive: • 8-10 weeks of online instruction in Lincoln-Douglas debate in an online video-course format • An opportunity for at least one online tournament-style debate round, judged by our esteemed colleagues

Topics covered will include (but are not necessarily limited to): • Topic Analysis • Research Strategies & Advanced Evidence Analysis • Casewriting • Effective Rebuttals • How to Run Theory (and how not to run theory) • How to Win Over Your Judge • Presentation

Expectations: • Mutual Respect and Professionalism • Completion of weekly assignments on a timely basis • Hard work and determination

What you will receive: • Personalized feedback on individual assignments. • A variety of perspectives on issues • Opportunities for one-on-one interaction: • Lessons for all skill levels

How to Sign Up: Please fill out the google form at this link • We will cap enrollment at the first 60 students, so sign up as soon as possible! Please note that camp will start in late June and run through most of August, so check your calendars now!

afloweroutofstone

All debaters and ex-debaters share a spiritual link as the result of both shared experiences and an idiosyncratic combination of extreme arrogance and self-loathing

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My old coach called it bitchassness

fieldofsmiting

hey! I'm an Oregon speech kid- I compete in ADS mostly. I'm trying to write a radio, but I have no idea how to structure it. would you mind giving me some examples? thanks!

Typically the structure you’re looking at is something like this (Demonstrations from my 2014-15 radio because it is really easy to break up and pretty much impossible for anyone in the state to use without getting caught, although it might be weird for all of us involved if any of y’all have heard it which I realise is possible):

Introduction- Make it relevant. People want to know why this particular topic would be on the radio on that particular day. (Most of the time, your judge will be thinking about this. Especially in a higher round. I know it impacted where I ranked people in finals at Pacific.) These don’t have to be long. This is mine in full:

“At the start of October, Germany reversed its 2006 decision to charge tuition for higher education. Yes, you heard me right – college just became tuition-free in Germany. Any seniors out there Sprechen ze Deutsch now? This seemingly impossible idea is also in place in many European countries, and open to foreigners. This of course, has been announced during college application season, causing many students to see the cost of education in America for what it often is: exceedingly high.“

Station/topic intro- If you listen to enough actual radio news broadcasts, this will be really easy. Since Oregon is west of the Mississippi, the recommendation is always to use K as the start of your station. Make sure you give your roadmap here. It doesn’t need to be fancy.

“This is Kitra Moeny with K-ED Radio, and I’m going to let you listeners out there in on the details of why college costs so much, what that means for education, and what we need to do about it.”

Explanation- Tell us why this is a problem. What is the necessary background, give us interesting facts, use analysis that isn’t intuitive if you can. Break down statistics in a way which people understand (I once put NASA funding in relation to how much Americans spend on hair products).

Solution- You don’t actually have to solve the problem, but make some suggestions for ways the listeners could get involved. Leave them with a light at the end of the tunnel. It can be as simple as emailing your representative, or donating to a charity which works on that specific thing, or as abstract as well, this:

“Finally, we must try to remove the social stigma which has been place on attending lesser known schools, or public institutions. Until the public can begin to believe that the Off Brand school can be as good as the Name Brand school, things aren’t going to get much better. “ (Which was part of a list of solutions, like streamlining scholarship programs, etc. by the way.)

Sign off- Basically, just get out of there. Many people like to do a “coming up next” or “tune in next week when we discuss x.” I tend to opt for the even more simple.

“This has been K-ED radio, Kitra Moeny, signing off.”

Hopefully that was what you were looking for, let me know if you have any other questions. I secretly love radio.

#ref #radio

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If you’re writing cases on the democratization in the Middle East topic, and you don’t know who Edward Said is, go look him up. He’s super important for this topic, especially his writings on orientalism.

#im so excited about this topic!!!