January 3, 2019
In this article, Kenan responds to a recent article that argues against small schools disclosing. He discusses the educational, fairness, and strategic benefits of disclosure both to small schools and the community at large.
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...
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.
February 23, 2018
This edition of "10 Things" by Bob Overing features Harvard, the good Samaritan paradox, Success Academy, Dartmouth's 1983 teams, and more!
February 14, 2018
John Overing discusses the concept of multiple counter-interpretations and how they might help debaters better address frivolous theory.
January 19, 2018
Bob argues that "object fiat" is a conceptually confusing and misleading term. It may be that "object fiat" just refers to counterplans that we don't like.
January 12, 2018
Bob's holiday disclosure post series continues in 2018 with 10 things he likes and doesn't like about current disclosure practices and the LD metagame. Drawing on disclosure from Blake and CPS, Bob covers advantage counterplans, open source, how to account for theory in metagame analyses, and more!
December 22, 2017
Bob forwards a new solution to the puzzle of combo shells. To make explicit that the strength of combo/conjunctive shells often depends on the unfairness of their component parts, debater should separate each part and argue its unfairness as a separate theory argument in addition to the conjunctive claim. He calls this a "multi shell."
