De-Basics
In this event, debaters act as America's legislators
What is Congress?
This heated term is used to describe a particularly crowded period of questioning in the latter half of a PF round.
What is crossfire?
A judge recently ruled that Donald Trump didn't have authority to inscribe his name on this building.
What is the Kennedy Center?
This philosophy is the default "cost benefit analysis" used in most debates.
What is utilitarianism?
Before converting to extemp, Zoe did this kind of debate.
What is LD?
In many debate events (LD, Policy) the first speech is known as this.
What is the 1AC?
This term describes highly technical judge who writes everything down and decides the round based strictly on argument tracking.
What is a flow judge?
Israel is currently pursuing an offensive against this Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon.
What is Hezbollah?
An enlightenment era philosopher, this man devised the idea of of a categorical imperative.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
There are two kinds of extemp. Zoe typically competes in this one.
What is international extemp?
These are common mistakes in argumentation that can make you vulnerable to opposition. Conversely, pointing them out in your opponent's cases can strengthen your position.
What are logical fallacies?
This term refers to the introduction of an extemp speech (give the full name; not the acronym).
What is an attention-getting device (AGD)?
This fish-farming renegade has shaken up a Maine senate race in recent weeks.
Who is Graham Platner?
He wrote On Liberty.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
Zoe's legal pads for tournaments are this color.
What is pink?
The NSDA was established in this year.
What is 1925?
This term refers system of ranking in prelim rounds where teams with equal records debate each other.
What is power matching?
Sanae Takaichi, the prime minister of this country, recently accelerated a crackdown on immigration.
Thomas Hobbes argued that the state of nature men were nasty, [blank], and short.
What is brutish?
While in middle school, Zoe was a national finalist in this asynchronous, short lived, NSDA event.
What is the pro-con challenge?
The dishonest practice of manipulating individual pieces of evidence in debate is known as this.
What is card clipping?
This term describes the reason a problem still exists. It may also be understood as the barrier to solvency.
What is inherency?
This South American country has implemented a system of currency bands in order to allay investors concerns over economic stability.
What is Argentina?
The work of this German philosopher addressed communicative rationality and the public sphere. He outlines an "ideal speech simulation" in which public discourse is truly democratic.
Who is Jurgen Habermas?
What is Nissan Altima by Doechii?