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By CX I assume you mean policy and no, it's really effective. I did it for 4 years and it was rare if my partner and I didn't place and one of us nearly always
by linuxps2 9y ago
By CX I assume you mean policy and no, it's really effective. I did it for 4 years and it was rare if my partner and I didn't place and one of us nearly always won a speaker award.
Nuke War impacts? yeah, I'm running Compassion Fatigue K.
On AFF you better believe I'm running a kritikal case with 'dismantling patriarchy through discussion' as my primary voting issue against the ridiculous Mead cards the neg was going to bring out.
All I'm saying is that it certainly can be effective as this is what I did and found great success both locally and in the national circuit
- pavel_lishin 9y agoI guess I was a much shittier debater than I thought, and I absolutely was not a good debater. I don't think I ever saw this type of thing work - maybe our schools were just in completely different skill tiers.
- Gaelan 9y agoAlso judges in different circuits are probably more tolerant of different things.
- ngoldbaum 9y agoIt totally depends on what the judging pool looks like. In a different state your strategy would have worked fine.
- linuxps2 9y agoYeah my experience was mostly limited to the national circuit and GA where the judges were typically WestGA, Emory, or UGA debaters (or debate coaches) trying to make extra money on weekends when they didn't have a college tournament