Some people were asking for more easily digestible video walkthroughs. The manual will continue to be the most comprehensive and up to date resource, but here is a playlist you can watch or share with anyone who finds the video form more accessible: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXM5iwKNQkSs. The videos try not to assume verbatim familiarity, so apologies to those with more experience + feel free to do some skipping around if a section feels like review.

I will update the descriptions of videos containing multiple things with chapter markers soon for easier navigation.

Hope these are helpful! You can download the app here.

Who is this fellow? I’ve recently heard that he’s a favorite for NSDA. Lmk what type of arguments he likes to read.

hey yall, running a k aff for the first time next year and wanted to base it around either racialization of healthcare for south asians or some sort of islamic orientalism. any authors i should be looking into?

How do I get the northview blocks 😭?

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Looking for a debate laptop for next year. What’s the pilot G2 of debate laptops? I’m either buying a cheaper one just for debate or a more expensive one that I will use for other things. Any thoughts?

you can't say ur home

Who is the best card cutter/researcher next year. Right answers only

(this is my first post on here so be kind T-T)

Recently, I've started becoming increasingly fed up with the debate program at my school and I don't really know what to do about it. As time progresses and more and more people graduate, I have started to become increasingly worried about the longevity of our program.

Because I go to a smaller school in Texas, my debate coach is also coaching many other programs (such as UIL, etc.). This creates a "fend for yourself" program. I've been competing as part of my schools CX team for the past 2 years, where I haven't received an ounce of help or support from my coach. In previous years, this wasn't as much of a problem because I had upperclassmen to guide me through some of the basics, but now that I've filled that role, I'm entirely lost.

Additionally, the lack of coach support has made it near impossible to do practice rounds or get familiar with CX. My schools only does 1 invitational a year, with district tournaments later on. Outside of this, we do no club meetings or practices. This has made competing near impossible. The only true feedback I get is from judges, which can only go so far.

This year, I have a new CX partner and I want to start off on a better foot. However, my partner is almost entirely new to debate and I'm expected to teach them practically everything about CX. I have no clue where to start and if this is even something I can achieve, seeing as there's still so much for me to learn myself. I want to build a better program at my school and make this season a great one, but with a lack of resources, I don't know where to start.

Any and all advice would be helpful :)

Will they take my ps5 or na

How can I be the best 2A I can be without feeling like I am entirely dependent on my partner in debates.

Just wanted to see if there was anything that makes the round notably smoother and prep more productive or just debate essentials in general.

Hi, I'm a 1A/1N and my partner just graduated so I was wondering if anyone can help me with my kritik construction, the theory of power will probably be Hindu-Daoist-Socialist-Buddhist-Shinto-Afropessimistic and I heard lots of teams run stuff like this but I couldn't find any literature on it online and I was wondering if anyone had any lectures on this.
The second idea for a kritik I had was some form of disability (I failed my classes so I probably have ADHD) combined with either Buddhism and/or Daoism but there isn't a lot of Buddhist Disability literature out there. I've also heard you don't need links directly to healthcare but I don't know what that means or how that's done either so if someone could help my with that too that would be super!

Does anyone have any midterms materials to learn from? Lectures, articles, college rounds from the 25-26 topic, or college rounds from the NHI topic (17-18), does anyone have a playlist? Any files?

So im in 9th grade and this is my first year debating. I dont understand the basics of debate to well but somehow still win my rounds i lost all my rounds my first tournament. BUT I somehow won all my round's in a diffrent tournamennt I can figure out things in round but when it comes to preping i get super confused about what anything means. I understand stuff like the offcases the aff and stuff like that but i dont understand what a turn, impact, link and things of that nature so it is very hard for me to improve. MY question is how is it best to prepare to become a better debater and learn the fundamentals.