PremierDebate.com Year in Review
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Announcements
- Premier Successes 2018-19
- Useful Tool: Flexcel’s Flowing Software
- Announcing Premier Debate Coaching 2018-19
Discussion of LD Topics
- Discussing Israel on Jan/Feb: How to Avoid Anti-Semitism (Jonathan Horowitz)
- Welcome Back, Topical Thoughts (Bob Overing)
- Complaints about Topic Wording, JF18 Edition (Bob Overing)
10 Things We Like & Don’t Like
- 10 Things, Princeton, Topics, etc. (Kenan Anderson)
- 10 Things, Super Early Jan/Feb Edition (Bob Overing)
- 10 Things: Bronx, Nov-Dec, etc. (Bob Overing)
- 10 Things I Like and Don’t Like, featuring Yale ’18 (Bob Overing)
- 10 Things I Like, TOC18 Edition (Bob Overing)
- 10 Things I Like and Don’t Like, featuring Harvard ’18 (Bob Overing)
- Holiday Disclosure Post #6 – 10 Things Edition (Bob Overing)
Data & Statistics
- Bid Tournaments Part 1: Allocation and Trends (Kenan Anderson)
- Bid Tournaments Part 2: Regions (Kenan Anderson)
- Early Aff Metagame for Nov/Dec ’18 (Kenan Anderson)
- Ranking Round Robin Toughness (Kumail Zaidi)
- No Side Bias Across Berkeley & Harvard Elims (John Scoggin)
Debate Theory
- Disclosure: Open Source, Full Text, and More (Kenan Anderson)
- Your Interp Leads to PICs, Skepticism, & Other Horribles (Bob Overing)
- Kritik Enthymemes (Bob Overing)
- Truth Testing “Truth-Testing” (Stephen Scopa)
- A New Challenge for Truth-Testers (Bob Overing)
- Multiple Counter-Interpretations? (John Overing)
- Defense of the First-Person Plural (Tess Welch)
- On “Object Fiat” (Bob Overing)
- Introducing “Multi Shells” (Bob Overing)
Skills & Drills
- Drill of the Week – Pre-Round Prep, TOC Edition
- Drill of the Week – Responding to Spec Theory
- Full Strat Disclosure #5: Whit Jackson’s Cyber AC
Community
- Jan/Feb Tournament Schedule and Registration Guide
- TOC Finals – Rex Interview, Speech Docs, & Flow
- Topic Grades (John Scoggin)
- Rankings Update (TOC/NDCA)
- Roundtable: High School LD to College Policy
- TOC Disclosure Prison (Bob Overing) [April Fool’s]
- On Flexibility, Plus Another TOC Prediction (Bob Overing)
- A Call for Rules (Bob Overing)
- Three Rankings Reactions, Plus TOC Speculation (Bob Overing)
- 2018 Stanford Finalist Interviews
- 2018 Columbia Invitational Finalist Interview
- 2018 Peninsula Invitational Finalist Interviews
- 2018 Harvard-Westlake Finalist Interview
