The Corrosion of High School Debate

Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate by linuxps2 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:41PM (#15443759)

By CX I assume you mean policy and no, it's really effective. I did it for 4 years and it was rare if my partner and I didn't place and one of us nearly always won a speaker award.

Nuke War impacts? yeah, I'm running Compassion Fatigue K. On AFF you better believe I'm running a kritikal case with 'dismantling patriarchy through discussion' as my primary voting issue against the ridiculous Mead cards the neg was going to bring out.

All I'm saying is that it certainly can be effective as this is what I did and found great success both locally and in the national circuit

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Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate by pavel_lishin on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:56PM (#15443855)

I guess I was a much shittier debater than I thought, and I absolutely was not a good debater. I don't think I ever saw this type of thing work - maybe our schools were just in completely different skill tiers.

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Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate by Gaelan on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:05PM (#15443944)

Also judges in different circuits are probably more tolerant of different things.

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Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate by ngoldbaum on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:28PM (#15446892)

It totally depends on what the judging pool looks like. In a different state your strategy would have worked fine.

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Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate by linuxps2 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:31PM (#15462212)

Yeah my experience was mostly limited to the national circuit and GA where the judges were typically WestGA, Emory, or UGA debaters (or debate coaches) trying to make extra money on weekends when they didn't have a college tournament

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