August 17, 2017

Debate for All: Word Economy (Tess Welch)

What is word economy? How can debaters improve it? Read Tess Welch's new "Debate For All" piece.
August 3, 2017

Two New & Bad Theory Arguments (Bob Overing)

Bob dissects and rejects "neg abuse outweighs" and "1AR theory bad."
July 25, 2017

Rankings — Pre-Season

Premier Debate's ADP and ELO rankings for Week 1! Congrats!
May 29, 2017

Debate for All: Intro to Theory (Anuj Gupta)

What is theory?!
May 8, 2017

Rankings — Post-Season

Premier Debate's ADP and ELO rankings for Week 1! Congrats!
May 4, 2017

10 Things I Like, TOC Edition (Bob Overing)

The first edition of "10 Things I Like and Don't Like" by Bob Overing features the Harvard tournament, plant pedagogy, and "1AR theory bad."
April 28, 2017

2017 Tournament of Champions

Live Results Follow Premier’s live results spreadsheet embedded below or at the link here: https://tinyurl.com/Premier-TOC17 In order to help us keep results as up-to-date as possible […]
April 23, 2017

TOC Diversity Enhancement (New)

This post details the changes made to TOC mutual preference judging, announced by Greg Malis on 4/23.
April 10, 2017

LD Practices Survey 2016

The purpose of this survey is to help evaluate current debate practice norms in LD and to distinguish between varying practices beyond a broad approach like "disclosure good" vs. "disclosure bad." What do you think is appropriate?
April 4, 2017

Holiday Disclosure Post #5 – Reply and Round-Up (Bob Overing)

Bob summarizes some of the arguments from this season's disclosure/disclosure theory battles.
April 2, 2017

TOC is Six Prelim Rounds (Survey)

This post discusses some factors to consider when arguing about number of prelims and polls the community on the ideal number.
April 1, 2017

Announcing the Inaugural Eight Week Big Questions Intensive

Premier Debate launches its inaugural foray into Big Questions Debate.