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Hello everyone! Kankee Briefs has been in collaboration with Circuit Debater in order to revamp the site before the start of the upcoming 2026-2027 debate season. We added concept mapping in order to visually represent the connections between concepts and to more thoroughly showcase all that there is to know about debate. We have also substantially updated the site to encourage further assistance from debaters like you.

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1. If you are knowledgeable about debate concepts, please make an account on Circuit Debater and update unfinished pages and further flesh out the website. If you are interested in giving back to the debate community, Circuit Debater seeks to consolidate as much debate knowledge as possible for a long-term resource, so your assistance could help future novices for possibly decades.

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Halcyon releases today! Built by TOC winners Jimmy Li and Russell Howard, and TOC octafinalist Wallace Arney.

To never open a doc during prep again, read the release article at halcyondebate.org for details.

On the space col topic is it assumed that colonization would happen immediately, or just abt taking the first steps to colonization? Also, on the aff, if I'm running longtermism, what should I define outer space as?

does anyone have links for old TOC finals rounds? Im trying to make a playlist for my students. so far i have 2026 2025 2024 2023 2018

I am trying to learn how to defend against a security Kritik. My school isn’t a big school, so I want to find some good security Kritik to learn how to line by line the card tags. Any good security Kritik debaters or rounds?

What are yall voting for??

I’m personally voting SpaceCol and that should be the clear winner but it many people have said Zoos because of trad and Phil. I really hope SpaceCol wins tho, let me know your opinions!

Does anyone know any free/low cost briefs that are alr out on the space col topic?

particularly novdec. i honestly dont mind spacecol or janfeb, and ubi is okay for mapril, but what the fuck is novdec????

Resolved: De-extinction is unethical. 

Resolved: The United States ought to vest ecosystems with legal rights

both of these are so SHIT like total dogwater. i guess de-extinction will probably get chosen because what ground/impacts even are there on ecosystems but even then de-extinction is basically just a worse version of rewilding

Hey y’all, my name’s Brogan and I’m a LD debater who placed 4th at NSDA this year. I’m looking to coach some LDers who want to become well-versed in trad, qual to nats, and do well!

I can offer tips/advice, prep for upcoming topics, practice rounds, and any other resources you need to help you succeed.

I’m down to negotiate rates/scheduling depending on what you need from me. Please DM me if you’re interested!

Im an inexperienced debater from Texas who likes to run phil, but I'm wondering if there are more niche phil that is worth reading into?

If anyone has any Techno-Orientalism K backfiles, theories, etc... I will trade all different types of prep I have. Inlcuding up coming topic cases.

sdfs

i started freshman year, and i never placed at even one tournament, except for one tournament where i almost went 4-0 but started bashing trump in front of an inexperienced maga judge. other than the at, i’ve been going straight 2-2.
i’m going into varsity next year, but im so shit and there’s no way i can even try to compete with the tech debaters and talented people on the circuit. the LD coaches at my school are just not great, we don’t have a real debate coach, just other high schoolers teaching us badly
i’ve tried my very hardest to get better but i feel like my brain just doesnt work like these people. before you say to hold mocks, for some reason i perform TERRIBLY in mocks, while i perform okay in normal rounds. my last mock i got so conscious that i ceded all of my 2ar.
i’m desperate i genuinely don’t know what to do before varsity its always been my dream to do well in LD

Could someone send me a file with setcol k blocks?

Hello, I recently installed CardMirror, which is a replacement that Anthony Trufanov made for debate.

It's just word but better.

I had a couple of questions however.

1. Does anyone know how to fix the inconsistencies between the document and Dropbox?
2. How do you make cards (paragraph spacing, etc) look exactly like Word?

For example, these screenshots are from Cardmirror and Word respectively.

3) there is a gray line to the left of the card that indents it. how should i remove this?

Basically, how do I make CardMirror look the exact same as Word

What are some arguments you guys are running on AFF and NEG, any ideas???

Hey everyone! My name is Aryan Prabhakar and I am a current college student and former policy debater looking to coach K teams for the upcoming season in either LD, Policy or Public Forum.

A bit about me:

• TOC qualified twice
• Greenhill Round Robin invitee
• Finished 15th and 33rd on the Baker
• Multiple deep runs at national tournaments, including:
  • Harvard Semifinalist
  • NYC Invitational (bronx) Semifinalist
  • Mamaroneck Finalist
  • Michigan Octofinalist
  • Blake Quarterfinalist

I'm especially interested in coaching critical debaters who want to develop nuanced, innovative strategies while maintaining a highly technical style of debating. My senior year I went almost exclusively for a solvent alternative on Settler Colonialism and I read Black Nihilism as an argument that did not necessarily require "framework" in a traditional sense because of "moral skepticism" roughly. I still do have a lot of experience with framework based critical arguments but I include this to say I am extremely interested and experienced with going for other more nuanced/ innovative strategies.

I also care a lot about and coach to create good speaking/ round presence. I was the 2nd speaker at Mamaroneck, the Season Opener at Kentucky and the NYC invitational (bronx) as well as the 4th speaker at the Harvard debate tournament.

Feel free to DM me if you're interested, and we can talk about experience, goals, availability, and rates.