I interpret the the icc as the inter national cricket counsel we should join because it would make are cricket team better witch would improve economic activity and increas international relations with India and packstan

just started writing my aff for jan/feb and was wondering with such spread out topic ground, should i go for a super deep 1 advantage aff so i can just grind prepping answers to their responses, or go for 3 contention wide aff so their answers to each will be minimal?

better question, whats your guys personal strategy on dpeth vs breadth in affs not jsut limited to this topic but in general and what do you prefer/had success with?

I have a big cap k topic specific file, looking for more stuff

It's that time! Our free brief is out now for the resolution Resolved: The United States ought to become party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and/or the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Find it here! Good luck!

Hi guys! I'm part of my schools LD team which is very small. Theres around 3 novice level people and then theres me and my captain. My captain and I kind of lead lectures together, but im trying to think of what else to talk about during lectures.

Ideas?

I’m a debater in Illinois and all the coaches just voted to restrict the new LD topic to just UNCLOOS cause it “put too high of a burden on neg.” To my knowledge we’ve never done anything like this before (but we’ve also never had a policy-esque topic in LD before).

i’ve been in rounds where my opponent will read a short quote or an anecdote before reading through their case, but i usually just start by stating the resolved and my position. what does everybody else do?

novice/intermediate; im looking at LD cases on opencaselist for the wealth tax topic but like i have no idea how to read this. its just a bunch of sources and how do they read their cases help

Do you think it would be more strategic for the aff to defend both the ICC and UNCLOS and collapse onto whichever they feel they are winning in the 1AR or just go for one from the beginning? Also which do you think is better for the aff - defending the ICC or UNCLOS?

I'm working on a case that is arguing the UN/ICC is unjust towards indigenous populations, and was just thinking about how to phrase my ROB.

I'd like the ROB to be rejecting unjust and harmful institutions, but I just have no way how to get that down especially in a way that lay judges would understand, if someone would be willing to help me it would be much appreciated!

Basically the title? I'm from a relatively trad circuit (so just having a standard isn't common) and I just want to hear your guys' advice for value and criterion for this upcoming topic

Linked here is the new Kankee Brief. Enjoy.

there’s finally a Ld debate discord group you can finally talk about topics you might not understand,have discussions about what cases you can run on a topic,have practice rounds,etc if you’re interested the group link is here

https://discord.gg/qgxc4yrS

I've been debating for 3 years, and have always followed the same template set by my coach. I've recently started looking toward Opencaselist for format inspo, and started wondering if there were any cases that were good to model mine around. For reference I debate in a very trad circuit, but we've started going to more prog tournaments.

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Title. Does anyone know if you can read graphs or charts, essentially any sort of data table that isn’t literally just words in round? And if yes, how exactly would you do it? Been wondering this for a while lol

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I made an Ld discord group and I’m looking for people to help me like make it better and yea here’s the link https://discord.gg/mvm9b7ST

Hey guys, I debate on the very trad circuit of Idaho and am trying to figure out how this new topic will work.

Resolved: The United States ought to become party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and/or the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

How will affirming and negating work? Does the aff choose the ground to affirm and the neg is forced to negate whatever they want? Like if the aff wants to affirm the Law of the Sea is the neg forced to negate that or can they say we should also affirm the rome statute. I've seen some different stuff and am so confused. I'm asking specifically how it will look on a lay circuit.

Thank you!

I see some progressive schools in my area compete, and also traditional schools. Is it like a mix of both depending on the judge(s)? Or is it one or the other?

Also just in general, how do I determine whether a tournament is traditional or progressive? Currently, I just look to see if the judges are parents or not

Hey I was planning on running set col for next months topic, but I was wondering if anyone could find a link between the UN and set col? Thank you!!

Are there any discord servers or websites that host practice rounds for LD. I have tried to find a few but the discord links are either expired or the websites are like completely dead with like no one in them. I am also very much open to creating a new server entirely.

Interpretation: my not scare the huzz

Violation: they Hella ugly

Standards

Not scaring the huzz

Voters Vote neg on the violate for scaring the huzz

Super late to this but I still can't decide a VC or V on wealth tax. Got ideas?

Do you think if I changed my name to the united states and donate 5 dollars to the icc I could argue that I the united states already became part of the icc thus affirm

Why do people keep running Rawls veil as a judging criterion? It simply is not a measuring system and is illogical. At most it can be an observation.

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hi guys, im new to LD from PF and i'm severely underprepped for nov dec. if anyone is willing to donate a good block doc(or any other helpful prep) i would appreciate it so so much!

I have some old PF prep about the UNCLOS topic in the upcoming LD jan feb if anyone wants to trade.

Prepping for a bigger tournament rn and i have some questions!

1. I want to run a non topical cp but will people read any kind of T/Theory on me for that?

2. What is a soft left aff? from what I understand its a policy aff with sv or k lit which I want to do but idk what they're structured like. Is it like a specific type of case structure or just dif framing and is there any good examples on opencaselist??

ty!!

1. If I read a nontopical 1ac, how do I beat T args in the 1nc, and like how do i right a “we meet”

2. If i run a trad case, how do I beat aspec or just spec args in general?

Thanks

i'm a varsity policy debater from a pretty big school that exclusively does policy debate. because of this, we enter whoever into our sections tournament for pf and ld. i decided to enter in ld, as i'm generally a k debater and our circuit is very progressive. i know the basics of how ld works (ie emphasis on values, slower speaking, shorter rounds) but i will not be able to get any round experience before sections outside of practice debates.

• what are values/criterions? i've done digging on the wiki but don't actually understand what their role is in the argument/how i use them
• are kritikal affirmatives winnable in ld? i know this will vary from circuit to circuit, but i want to run a kaff and don't want to expend a ton of energy on an unwinnable argument lol
• how specific can plan affs get?

also, any specific tips on how to adapt to ld from policy specifically would be appreciated!! esp as related to prep, in round/pre round norms, and how to structure arguments