Hi guys!
I’m currently putting together a team for online WSDC tournaments this season, and I’d love to connect with debaters in or around the UTC+1 time zone. Ideally, I’m looking for experienced 1st and 3rd speakers, but anyone passionate about debating is welcome! If you’re a former member of a national WSDC team, that’s an even bigger plus :)

A bit about me: I’ve been debating for 3 years and recently started judging as well. My goal is to create a supportive team environment where we can all grow as debaters, push each other to improve, and bring our best to every round.

I’d love to find teammates who are interested in improving, are able to commit to multiple tournaments, and are open to participating in online BP tournaments (and possibly explore others formats) too if opportunities arise.

Feel free to comment or message me if you’re interested or want to know more. Looking forward to seeing who’s out there!

Beginner at Debate here.

I just want to ask what else can our team opposition do or what other arguments can we provide/ angles we can look for to see where the government can refute us.

We have an oral examination in our Debate Class, and it’s our first time doing debate in general. It will be done in the Asian Parliamentary Format.

I know motions are given the thirty minutes before the actual debate BUT our professor decided to give it to us three days before considering it’s the whole class’ first time and not many of us have actual training and experience.

The motion is THS sanctions against Authoritarian Regimes for Human Rights Violations.

I just want to ask if what would your insights be here as an opposition because I’m scared that we’re not researching enough or there are things we overlooked. So it would be nice to have another perspective from others.

Thank you!

I notice that I grow very nervous and anxious during a debate. It makes it very hard for me to process and sort my thoughts, which leads to me making weak arguments. So uhhm, any tips for argument structure and how to be more confident or less nervous?

I feel like I don’t know the boundary between aggressive and assertive and like I feel like I struggle with staying calmed during cross, anybody have any tips

I js bit off way more than I can chew I am starting my high schools debate team by default making me president and I barely know my yearns like what’s aff and what’s neg please someone help me so Ik what I’m doing

hey, does anyone know the current best freshman pf team in california. ideally someone who did it in middle school and is competing in varisity now.

worlds debate kills me solely because i kinda suck at whip! whats the problem? my coach does not bother putting anyone else on whip because my teammates aren't willing to learn whip because it's hard.

anyways please give me advice for whip im a junior debater i have 69.68 avg spkr score.

my speechs goes like hook-> redefine/reclarify if needed-> rebuttals-> overview->clash->weigh

here's one of my latest tournaments for reference:

https://aodcjunior2024.calicotab.com/aodc/tab/speaker/u13/ -> search up luca then that's me

Hi i do ld this is technically my second year debating but i wrestle and the seasons collide. But this year i decided to focus on debate. I ran into a plan for the resolution that redefined a wealth tax as a carbon wealth tax and centered its arguments around that. I was neg and tried to counter that it didn't effectively define what the resolution meant but i don't believe it was an effective argument. How do you cover these types of plans?

I'm a newbie at debating and would like to know how to make strong arguments! This upcoming December my class would have a debate session about who's more prepared for future responsibilities: Boys or Girls? This like a girls vs boys kinda stuff so my stand is obviously girls lol

Hello I want to do “Hi my name is Amy” for my Di I’m having trouble finding the script for free can someone find it for me?

What is the consensus on the likely January PF topic? Are there any major camps/voting blocs that have endorsed one topic over the other?

It's my first time debating policy. A bunch of varsity members recommended it to me because me and my partner did well in public forum, winning tournament finals rounds twice. However, I am trying to run trademarks since I don't think many will have counters since they seem more simple, and I have focused in on counterfeiting. That is to say, I have no idea how to make an actual plan. Like I have what I want to do, but no idea how long it will take or how much it will cost. I'm not used to actually having to make the plan, just backing up the resolve. What should I do? Thank you in advance.

hey everyone, is running economic deterrence good for aff? We were originally running trade offs but one of our judges told us it was unwarranted, because we linked it to domestic services. We changed it to the artic, because it’s in the same budget. but idk lmk what yall think, or have any ideas. our neg is basically escalation. Lmk if u guys have any ideas for that too

thank u

Hi! I'm a college student, this is my second year doing speech. I do IEs (impromptu/extemp and interp), and I used to do IPDA before I realized it wasn't really my thing. I consistently break in impromptu but I'm unable to do the same for extemp. was wondering if you all had any tips on how to really refine extemp (esp. from the debater side of things)? Good sources to do research from would be great as well! Thanks :)

Hey! I'm currently trying to find good speech competitions to register in for POI and DI. It doesn't matter where in the nation, I just wanted to know if anyones aware of highly competitive tournaments for this category, with large pools. They also have to be open to independent entries.

Who are some underrated Pf teams this year

I was doing a PR with a partner who is not my usual one, and on neg he refuses to use my case cuz it has Japan proliferation as one of the main contentions. When asking others about proliferation they all said it was ass and that it was so unlikely, and one person finally explained that countries have already said/ wouldn’t be stupid enough to build nukes if us support leaves Taiwan. Is this true? And if so what do I respond to it? Or is proliferation just a bad argument?

where do i try to be up to date on for presenting arguments for wsdc as in most videos I see people presenting arguments and their examples also being really precise which I feel like cannot be acquired from just news alone

hello everyone! Before rounds I like to write a pre-summary that’s about 1:30 seconds and then add our responses to their arguments after. Should i continue to keep doing this or don’t write a pre-summary at all. If i should do no pre summary do u guy have any advices or tips to help me do my summary better

thank you!!

Is there any Rock paper scissors good theory? I’m trying to find evidence for a team from my same school and just trying to be a little goofy.

In Speech events, a big chunk of the NSDA rules are plagiarism prevention. But in Debate events, plagiarism is allowed to run rampant, with entire teams openly using the same constructive and entire camps discouraging their students from writing their own cases. If you have 152 quoted words in your OO instead of 150, you will be disqualified. If you give a rebuttal that's 3/4th other people's words, nobody will say Boo. Why are debate students allowed to get away with not writing their own speeches? If people turned in to their English or History teacher one of these speeches with 10-sentence quotations in them, they would get sent before the school's honor board.

Number of student NSDA members getting points in each event for 23/24.

Event Participation #

Public Forum Debate 17,899

Congressional Debate 16,155

Extemporaneous 12,195

Impromptu 10,260

Lincoln-Douglas 9,819

Duo Interp 8,457

Original Oratory 8,153

Policy Debate 8,096

Informative 5,922

Dramatic Interp 5,519

Poetry 5,082

Prose 4,814

Humorous Interp 4,404

Big Questions Debate 3,659

World Schools Debate 3,533

Program Interp 3,247

Storytelling 2,298

Declamation 2,230

Extemporaneous Debate 2,101

Mock Trial 1,364

Commentary 893

Expository 709

From the NSDA Membership Database. They produce this info every October:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WuNOeb_XR_A6atkRFQUt83_4xjrfkE8ZQsG6p98ef5I/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Speech: 74,183

Debate 62,626

You know it’s bad when it’s 11:12 P.M. on a Monday night and ur sobbing to ur speech and debate coach over group me because i can’t stop thinking about the fact my relationship feels like it’s about to end!

To r/Debate ,

Outreach Debate is excited to announce its 2024 Winter Camp. We are excited to have four co-directors: Cailyn, Vedant, Bashir, and Michi lead this year’s camp.

All campers with high attendance will receive a comprehensive prep file at the conclusion of camp, encompassing approximately 100 pages. At our camp, we allow you to gain comprehensive no-cost education to improve your debate skills with some of the best debaters in the world, who have gathered more than 50 TOC bids.

Our camp will run from December 29 - January 5 with December 31 and January 1 off.

You can find the registration link here: https://forms.gle/5cjzM6pxT8FCK2EX9. We hope to see you all at camp!