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How Should I Research for Debate?

The best debaters are often the best researchers, simply due to the fact that if you find strong evidence yourself, you are far more...

Ben Silvian

Mar 24, 20215 min read

Ten Tips To Improve Your Crossfire Skills

Here are ten great tips to improve your ability to win crossfires in debate. You can read through them one by one if you like, or come...

Ben Silvian

Mar 23, 20213 min read

What Questions Should I Ask To Win Crossfire?

There are three crossfires in a debate round: the first crossfire (1CX) which occurs between the two first-speakers after the cases have...

Ben Silvian

Mar 23, 20217 min read

How Should I Decide Which Debate Contentions to Use?

Alright, so you have learned about the structure of a debate and what you should be aiming to do in each speech. But one major questions...

Ben Silvian

Mar 22, 20215 min read

How To Deliver a Debate Final Focus

The Final Focus speech is quite similar to the Summary speech in that they are both short speeches which aim to boil down the round and...

Ben Silvian

Mar 22, 20214 min read