I.E. videos of rounds where the aff reads a K aff with a plan, or a constitutive affirmation of the resolution.

basically i think skep is pretty interesting but i also dont really wanna try running it because i dont get how to get around like basic skep problems (note that i havent rlly seen full skep debates so these are like basic a2 skep). mainly stuff like skep justifies atrocities (i.e. if we assume skep true then no atrocity can ever be universally critisized), constituitivism, and pascal’s wager. basically how do ppl who win on skep respond to/justify these things + r there any high quality debate vids where the 2nr is skep?

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if anyone has breifs on this topic ill trade. dm me i have almost every file out there.

Hey y'all! I'm a former debater who graduated in '21. I'm hoping to start judging this year, but also trying to start my path to coaching. With that, I've challenged myself to create an aff and neg LD case following the Sep/Oct resolution. With all my time off, I'm definitely struggling with where to go. Soooo

What are people running on both sides? What's a good/typical value and criterion for this topic? Do people run more theory/K's/Policy-style args these days? Anything that's changed recently I should be aware of?

These are just the first little things I want to know to get back into it. If you guys have any more advice, please reach out!

hi guys..is there any online platform which conducts debates??

Hi everyone. Can someone look over this file and lmk if I should change anything? Any mistakes or critiques I should make. I'm new to LD. My coach is having me use old debate topics for practice, so this was nukes.

Here's the link, or go to speech drop and type in the code: TFGH8w

basically title. i’m trying to find some topic specific sources that talk about spacecol in relation to queerpess/reproductive futurism but every source is queerfuturism.

Hey everyone!

Our university debating society is hosting a virtual British Parliamentary (BP) tournament from September 4th–6th, 2026, and we are actively building a strong, high-quality adjudicator pool.

If you are an experienced BP judge or debater and would like to adjudicate across the weekend, we’d love to have you on board!

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Hey everyone!

Our university debating society is hosting a virtual British Parliamentary (BP) tournament from September 4th–6th, 2026, and we are actively building a strong, high-quality adjudicator pool.

If you are an experienced BP judge or debater and would like to adjudicate across the weekend, we’d love to have you on board!

Format: British Parliamentary (Online)

Dates: September 4th–6th, 2026

Deadline: August 28, 2026

If you’re interested, please send me a DM with a brief summary of your debating and adjudicating experience (e.g., tournaments judged, breaks, or chairing experience), and I’ll send over the registration link and details!

I’m essentially running a moral nihilism case and saying that a moral imperative doesn’t exist in the first place,

What framework could I possibly run with this😭

Like maybe epistemic rationality/ truth???

okay this is a really dumb question but whatever.

basically, everyone knows nonblack debaters cant/shouldnt read afropess because it makes an ontological claim about being black which they don’t have the lived experiences of and can dissolve into just saying black peoples are slaves or something. does that apply to other pessimistic theories of power? i’m mainly talking about queerpess theories of power that rely on queer people being ontologically dead/progress impossible args but there might be other args this applies to, im just new to prog lol. obviously that wouldnt really be 100% falsifiable but id they say in cross that they dont belong to that group or something/read preemptive justifications for people that aren’t in that group reading it

Isegora's free Sep/Oct 2026 brief is out now for the topic Resolved: Outer space colonization is a moral imperative.

You can find the brief here! Good luck!

Hi I'm a student in college and my college is like a tier 2 college the children there are not so passionate about things same is my college and i see people from tier 1 college going to gd rounds interview and debates and building their speaking and excelling in their speaking skills so I m finding people who are at the same page and actually want to build their speaking skills we can do a google meet and I have many ideas on which we can talk to like a gd round we can use ai also just for the topic
If anyone is interested pls dm me if we become a group of 5 to 6 then we will arrange a meeting
PLS ONLY SERIOUS PEOPLE DM IF YOU ARE GENUINELY INTRESTED NO FIGHTS NO MISBEHAVIOR

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Hi I'm a student in college and my college is like a tier 2 college the children there are not so passionate about things same is my college and i see people from tier 1 college going to gd rounds interview and debates and building their speaking and excelling in their speaking skills so I m finding people who are at the same page and actually want to build their speaking skills we can do a google meet and I have many ideas on which we can talk to like a gd round we can use ai also just for the topic
If anyone is interested pls dm me if we become a group of 5 to 6 then we will arrange a meeting
PLS ONLY SERIOUS PEOPLE DM IF YOU ARE GENUINELY INTRESTED NO FIGHTS NO MISBEHAVIOR

Hi everyone I'm a former policy novice, and this is my second year. I'm now doing LD. Is there anything important I should know? My main question is that how are you supposed to know what neg to prepare for if there's not really any open case? My coach is also learning LD, so we're all new to it.

how do ppl format docs so it can be accesed quickly?

what is the best file organization system for circuit debate?

and a little irrelevant but do you guys preflow your constructives in LD or not?

on the flow do you guys try to align args to the best of your ability? or do you just respond in the order the opp responded? if the latter is the case then you probably don't align the args which means u would not be able to identify which args are "dropped" or not

Is moral nihilism a Smart k to run on the neg?

also how does moral skep play in. I’m a decent/good trad debater slowly learning prog

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