Ben Silvian
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...
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Ben Silvian
- Mar 23, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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 22, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 9 min
Five Big Tips For The Summary Speech
This article hopes to help first-speakers improve their summary speeches by providing advanced tips. For the basics on how to structure...
Ben Silvian
- Mar 18, 2021
- 5 min
How to Structure a Summary
Whoever named this speech the summary speech provided us a bit of a misnomer; your goal in the summary speech is not to summarize....
Ben Silvian
- Mar 17, 2021
- 6 min
How To Deliver A Rebuttal Speech
For many young debaters, the rebuttal speech is the toughest speech. It is the longest speech that is not pre-written and you’ll have to...
Ben Silvian
- Mar 16, 2021
- 7 min
How to Prepare for Rebuttal by Writing Blocks
What Are Blocks? Blocks are prepared, pre-written responses to your opponents’ arguments so that you have strong material when delivering...
Ben Silvian
- Mar 15, 2021
- 7 min
How To Write a Debate Case
Part 1: The Conventional Approach Typically, students who have just joined their school's debate team are taught the Claim Warrant Impact...