Camp Lectures
This variation of the politics DA was described as the "bread and butter" of politics by Will Kochel in "Debating Politics"
What is the Agenda DA?
Existing de-escalation mechanisms like hotlines fail—only accurate data collection allows militaries to make decisions
Who are Hoggo & Handy?
This team won the TOC in 2025
Who are Greenhill Liu and Chamarthy?
This is the largest organ in the human body
What is the liver?
This subject was studied by Matt as a minor and is studied by Jack as a major
What is philosophy?
This scientific phenomenon, as Avalyn Renee explains in "Advanced Climate and Impact Debating," describes a loop whereby climate change accelerates and exponentially worsens out of control
What is a negative feedback?
Arctic war escalates through conventional, gray-zone, and accidental warfare
Who is Wallin?
This school lost in TOC finals in 2023 and 2024
What is Montgomery Bell Academy?
This was Walter White's alias in Breaking Bad
What is Heisenberg?
After leaving debate in 2023, Jack played this sport for Loyola Chicago before transferring to Emory
What is football?
What is "nation?"
Modernization is wrong: Russian and Chinese nuclear buildups are not in reaction to US missile defenses.
Who are Costlow and Soofer?
This decade was formative in making policy debate resemble its current format, with structured speeches and evidence use
What are the 1960s?
This is the name of Thor's Hammer
What is Mjölnir?
Jack won this national tournament in 2023
What is the National Debate Coaches' Association?
These were the three main benefits of U.S. hegemony in Graham Revare's "U.S. Heg and Trump."
What are: deterrence, prolif, power transitions
The 1AC over-securitizes the Arctic, making militarized conflict inevitable and preventing cooperation over non-military existential threats. Vote neg to reject the 1AC’s security framing—reps come first.
Who is Gricius?
This college team has won the NDT the most times, with 15 titles
What is Northwestern University?
This single letter is the chemical label for Tungsten
What is W?
These are the three states your lab leaders are from
What are Ohio (Conway), Missouri (Yonter), and Tennessee (Young)
This term, as explained by Josh Harrington in "Black Studies in Debate," was invented by Du Bois whereby racialized populations have a "sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others"
What is double consciousness?
Capitalism is terminally unsustainable---it has created a ‘triangle of extinction’ through existential climate change and a militarized, unstable international order.
Who is Handel?
This school invented the "process counterplan"
What is Glenbrook North (GBN)?
This Chinese dynasty built the majority of the Great Wall
What is the Ming Dynasty?
Ms. Yonter was the president of this society at UGA from 2014-2018
What is the Economics Society?