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The Importance of Depth in Critical Debates

This piece by David Asafu-Adjaye explores depth in critical debates, vital for winning high-level rounds

David Asafu-Adjaye

October 23, 2021

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A Look Into DebateDrills Rankings

DebateDrills’ PF and LD rankings include all national bid tournaments hosted on Tabroom and make use of an elo-based system. This article introduces the rankings systems by giving a brief look into their methodology and FAQs.

Inko Bovenzi

October 17, 2021

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Debate Economics 106: Down with Macroeconomics!

This is part of an ongoing series of blog posts where Daniel Luo talks about Debate and Economics. In this issue, he discusses novel uses of microeconomic theory in debate, with a particular focus on social choice and game theory.

October 10, 2021

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Lincoln-Douglas 2021 November-December Topic

The Lincoln-Douglas 2021 November-December topic is worker strikes.

Lucas Clarke

October 1, 2021

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Analyzing Fairness as an Impact

Why is fairness relevant? Perhaps the better question is whether or not we should continue to answer challenges to the purpose of the activity with calls to procedurals (especially when those procedurals have been relaxed for positions like internationally fiated, solvency advocate-less multi-plank counterplans).

Lindsey Dahms-Nolan

August 23, 2021

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An Argument for Reasonability Pt. 2

Why might reasonability be the preferred paradigm for evaluating theory debates? See the continuation of the debate from the first iteration of this article.

August 2, 2021

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