August 11, 2018
Premier Debate organizes online coaching and tournament preparation and coordinates a virtual team of debaters and coaches throughout the season. There are still spots available, so sign up now!
May 8, 2018
Interview with TOC finalist Santa Monica RE, 1AC/1NC/1AR speech docs from finals, and flow of the final round.
May 4, 2018
Premier Debate's rankings upon the conclusion of the regular season. Congrats to the Top 100!
May 3, 2018
The latest edition of 10 Things celebrates TOC 2018, including record breakers, flexibility, new affs, neg win rates, a critique of the topic metagame, and many shout-outs.
May 2, 2018
Your unbroken case may never win a debate round, but it can still win our hearts as the champion of the unbroken case contest! Click for details.
April 26, 2018
Do aff solvency advocates say what debaters say they say? And if they don't, is that bad? We need better topic wording because without it, theory and topicality abound and negs get free rein with abusive counterplans.
April 23, 2018
Drills and practice debates are the best way to improve your rebuttals! Click for instructions and pointers.
April 14, 2018
The transition from high school LD to college policy debate can be daunting, but more and more LDers are successfully making the jump. In this post, we asked five former LD debaters who now debate college policy to share their experiences and advice.
April 9, 2018
Stephen explains distortions in understanding "truth-testing," responds to Bob's recent objection, and outlines several advantages to the view.
April 5, 2018
Bob offers a reductio ad absurdum-style objection to recent explanations of truth-testing, which have the unfortunate consequence of eliminating most theory debate as traditionally practiced.
April 2, 2018
Overall, neg won 54.1% of prelim rounds, 49.6% of elim rounds, and 53.8% of all rounds at Berkeley and Harvard. We believe elimination rounds at major bid tournaments are the best sample for measuring side bias, and in our survey, neg won only 49.6% of elims at Berkeley and Harvard, indicating little discernible difference between aff and neg win rates.
April 1, 2018
It is a melancholy object to those who who walk through the halls of the University of Kentucky, when they see the rooms, the floors, and doorways, crowded with debaters refusing to disclose their cases, followed by three, four, or six debaters importuning every passenger for citations. To remedy these and many other inequities, I offer for public consideration the TOC Disclosure Prison.
