February 13, 2020
In this article, Kenan breaks down which affirmatives have seen the most success on the Jan/Feb 2020 topic.
October 25, 2019
Guest author Martin Sigalow defines and defends "judge-applied rules," which are a form of limited, structured judge intervention, as a practice and strategy.
April 25, 2019
Bob assesses the state of plans good/bad going into TOC '19 and gives some advice for debaters on both sides.
February 14, 2019
Bob summarizes and replies to some comments on the last edition of Planorama before moving to consider the state of plans good/bad debate.
January 30, 2019
To kick off a new series, Bob discusses a way affs that want to read a plan can read an 'example' instead, dodging semantics-based topicality concerns.
November 7, 2018
After the first major tournaments on Nov/Dec our new Associate Editor, Kenan Anderson, breaks down what affirmatives are dominating the metagame and how affirmatives are, and aren't, interpreting this resolution.
November 1, 2018
This edition of "10 Things" by Bob Overing features Bronx, food, theory, and some predictions about the fast-approaching Apple Valley tournament.
October 23, 2018
The topic for today is what to make of arguments like “your interpretation X leads to Y bad thing” and the common response “but you could read theory on Y bad thing.” Bob likes the former (sometimes) but the latter never.
September 25, 2018
This edition of "10 Things" by Bob Overing features Yale, advocacy/inherency problems on SO18, metagame shifts, and more...
September 19, 2018
Bob challenges the use of abbreviated arguments or "enthymemes" in contemporary kritik debate. On his view, they discourage innovation and clash, exclude debaters, and emphasize the judge's knowledge over the skill of the debaters.
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.
