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the end of flowpaper?

thank you all for appreciating my two years of debate memes! 

i’m a high school senior this year, and i have debated my last tournament.

we’re not going to the toc, which i kind of regret, but now it’s too late to prep & we already withdrew our spot,,

and i’m not sure what this means for this account ! i’ll be joining brown university’s parliamentary debate team next year, but i know that college debate is pretty different compared to high school debate. (’: 

(so if anyone wants to take over this account, let me know?)

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#db8 #4n6 #debate #forensics #deb8 #speech and debate #the debate life #debatelife #public forum #pf

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debate rebuttal starter alignment chart

lawful good: “is everyone ready?”

neutral good: “their case, our case.”

chaotic good: *fumbles with beeping timer*

lawful neutral: “i’ll just be going down my opponents’ case.”

true neutral: THERE IS NO TRUE NEuTRAL IN DEBATE

chaotic neutral: *starts speech before anyone is ready*

lawful evil: “is anybody not ready?”

neutral evil: “judge ready? partner ready? opponents ready? timekeeper ready?” 

chaotic evil: “as an off-time roadmap, i’ll be reading an offensive overview that you can flow by our case as another contention, going down my opponents’ case with responses, and then — if time allows — going back over our own case.”

#debate #public forum #deb8 #db8 #speech and debate #the debate life #debatelife #4n6 #forensics #nfl

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I’m a novice in PF and I was wondering if you have any flow tips or if I could like see what your flows look like.

sorry for the late response – i’ve been at tournaments over the weekends and leaving/coming back home during the weekdays when the lighting is still bad before the sunrise. (and picture quality matters 😤)

here are some tips for flowing:

-use one pen color for your side and one pen color for your opponents side

-flow on two sheets of paper lol

-choose one color for the affirmation and one for the negation. this way, when you’re debating in outrounds near midnight with a frazzled brain, you won’t get confused over which side you are (trust me – this happens more often than you’d expect)

-create a shorthand for commonly used words! i use ! for “impact,” a circle with a line through it for “can’t,” and a triangle for “change,” for example.

-i would also familiarize myself with common vocab from each new topic so that i could abbreviate. for example, “PC” takes a lot less time to write compared to “price controls”

-if you’re second speaker like me and need to reference both your flow and laptop for cards, i write a bracket symbol “[-]” to indicate to myself when i should switch from looking at he flow to reading evidence.

-circle parts in your opponents’ case that seem weak, confusing, or suspicious so that you remember to ask them about it in cross

-it’s surprising how few debaters do this, but flow your partner’s speech!! you need to mirror each other in what you go for in the round, and it’s hard to do that if you don’t write down what they say

-when your opponents bring up the same point in a late speech, just use an arrow to bring the prior idea further on the flow – there’s no need to rewrite the ideas

-distinguish cards from ideas by squaring or bracketing the names

here’s the flows of a round i watched this october. they’re kinda messy, but i hope it’s at least somewhat helpful! :^)

#4n6 #debate #forensics #deb8 #speech and debate #db8 #the debate life #debatelife #public forum #pf

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hello yes how is the debate where you're from and how are you feeling about the pharma topic??

i started off debating in the local utah circuit, which is known for neither great debate teams nor great judges. we’ve been shifting to the national circuit for the past two years though. this year alongside some local tournaments, we’ve gone to long beach, apple valley, and glenbrooks, which are certainly different compared to utah tournaments. (we just went to alta, a local bid tournament, which was like a flashback to utah circuit debate lol)

i was initially wary about the pharmacy topic because econ-based theories and ideas don’t make as much sense to me as international relations and diplomacy stuff. however, after a month of debating, i think the topic has grown on me lol. in no ways will i be missing it in the months to come, but i’ll look back on it with fondness and not hatred :’))

#db8 #askflowpaper #forensics #4n6 #debate #deb8 #speech and debate #the debate life #debatelife #public forum #pf

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opponent: *calls out evidence i’ve been misconstruing this entire round*

me: 

#the debate life #debate life #public forum #db8 #deb8 #4n6 #forensics #speech and debate #debate memes

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send db8 asks! :^)

doing this to procrastinate on cutting blocks

#debate #deb8 #db8 #4n6 #forensics #the debate life #debatelife #public forum

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when your opponents ask a pointless question in cross-ex

#debate #speech and debate #the debate life #debatelife #4n6 #forensics #meme #debate memes #public forum #nfl #ariana grande #thank u next

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when your opponents’ case makes no sense

#help #why does this happen #contention 1 is benefits #lmao what do you mean #when you go right into impacts and have zero links #debate #speech and debate #deb8 #db8 #4n6 #forensics #public forum #the debate life #debate life

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when your opponent asks 3 questions in a row in cross-ex

#debate #db8 #deb8 #speech and debate #the debate life #debatelife #publicforum #4n6 #forensics

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“what did you do this weekend?”

“oh i was at a debate tournament”

“what side were you on?”

#db8 #deb8 #debate #speech and debate #the debate life #debatelife #4n6 #forensics #nfl

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how’s everyone’s db8 season going?

it’s my senior year, so the season is a bit bittersweet for me. :”)

#debate #deb8 #Speech and Debate #The Debate Life #debatelife #db8 #4n6 #forensics #national forensics league #nfl

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#db8 #Speech and Debate #debate #Deb8 #thedebatelife #public forum #4n6 #forensics

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who remembers debate before online tabroom?

throwback to when rounds were posted on sheets of paper and we debaters scrambled at the sound of “pOSTINGS ARE OUT!”

#debate #speech and debate #the debate life #debate life #public forum #db8 #deb8 #4n6 #forensics

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you’ve heard of sports anime, now get ready for

speech and debate anime

#i'm ready #u better be ready too #debate #db8 #4n6 #speech and debate #the debate life #forensics #public forum #deb8

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final debate season 😱

am i sad or am i ready? the world will never know.

#debate #deb8 #db8 #speech and debate #the debate life #forensics #4n6 #public forum

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lol guys the TOC is this week and i haven’t started prepping.

please send help. if anyone is willing to trade prep for public forum db8 (i’ll have things by tomorrow i swear) please message me :’)) this is my first time going to the TOC but i’ve been so embroiled in school stuff that i’m n o t ready. 

#debate #toc #db8 #deb8 #tournament of champions #nfl #national forensic league #the debate life #debatelife #4n6 #forensics #public forum #procrastination