Tri State Debate League Workshop at Collegiate

2024 — New York City, NY/US

Intermediate Policy & Lincoln-Douglas

Abbreviation Inter
Format Speech
Entry Fee $0.00
Entry 1 competitors per entry

Event Description:

Intermediate Policy and LD Debate
This track is intended for students who have at least one year of debate experience and plan to pursue Policy or Lincoln-Douglas debate this year.
BREAKFAST - 8:30am - 9:20am
SESSION 1 - 9:30am - 11:00am Verbatim Tutorial
Description Students will learn how to operate the Verbatim software, which is a tool that helps orgnanize arguments and evidence. Verbatim significantly speeds up the research process, as well as the process of constructing speech and evidence documents during a debate.
Lecturer - Room Jack Booth -
LUNCH - 11:00am - 12:00pm
SESSION 2 - 12:15pm - 1:45pm Oppositional Research
Description Students will learn about the open caselist wiki, where evidence is published after each debate. It is helpful to know what arguments other schools are utilizing in order to prepare responses to the most common arguments on a given topic. Students will also learn how to publish to the wiki.
Lecturer - Room Jack Booth -
SESSION 3 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm Critical Arguments
Description Critical Arguments, or "Kritiks" are arguments that test the underlying assumptions of an affirmative. These strategies typically only appear in Policy and LD debate at the intermediate and advanced levels, and students will learn about the format and structure of these arguments.
Lecturer - Room Sonnie Picallo -