In BP debate, the WUDC manual is the law of the land. Each year, it is revised by the WUDC Adjudication Core. In a nutshell, here are the major changes in this year’s manual. This manual really gets into a lot of technical issues within debate, but there are big-picture changes as well. This article…
Disclaimer: This article is not an authoritative writing. It is particularly based on my personal experience of managing my high school debate club that was quite successful (I thank my colleagues, juniors, teachers, and school for their help), and intended to provide suggestion that may be applied to make debate club more sustainable. But I…
Erm. Okay. Well, this is a little bit confusing, I couldn’t figure out the proper definition for “further governmental services” even after an exhausting thirty minutes of Google search, and to top things off, I wasn’t able to contact Muhammad (this motion is as per his request) – apparently my account (MegaSableye) had some of…
This motion is fairly straightforward and leaves little to no room for multi-interpretation. “Automatic Discount(s) in Criminal Sentencing”, however, is vaguely worded and it is the sole burden of the Affirmative Team to clear out any ambiguity. AFFIRMATIVE A strategically sound interpretation of automatic discount(s) for this debate would be a model in which racial…
Let’s start with what the possible criteria for acceptance are. There have been various cases with a similar tone: visa, passport, etc. So, it is established that there already are and have been parameters for acceptance. Now we have a different parameter being appealed for installation in the current status quo. This debate could be…