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Thinking of Joining the Georgia Debate Union?

Want to join the UGA debate team? Come to our weekly meeting and say hello! We meet every week on Tuesday nights at 6:30pm in Phi Kappa Hall (located in the northeast corner of campus, near the the Jackson/Broad intersection). The debate office is the entire first floor. Come on in! Or, fill out a contact form and one of our coaches will get back to you personally.
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Press


Certainty Key: The Importance of Preparing Against Conditioning Counterplans

Debate, like chess or poker, is a game of strategy. Across alternating speeches—which roughly correspond to “moves” by each team—effective strategy requires anticipating your opponent’s line of attack and then preempting it or developing a strong response. In most situations, planning up to the third move (2AC, after the 1AC and 1NC) is the key to success. Clearly, the strategic approach to debate has huge implications for Affirmative case…
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Research Techniques


2010-2011 Topic Announced

Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase the number of and/or substantially expand beneficiary eligibility for its visas for one or more of the following: employment-based immigrant visas, nonimmigrant temporary worker visas, family-based visas, human trafficking-based visas. Voting breakdown is available here.


Debate Retreat Information

The Georgia Debate Union will again be holding a "pre-season retreat" on the UGA campus. When: Monday, August 9 – Friday, August 13.  This is the week before classes begin (first day is Monday, August 16). Where: First two days will again be in Georgia Center, then we will move to meeting in the squad room in Phi Kappa Hall. What: Team orientation, topic introduction, argument lectures, practice speeches, and research. Every…


Debate Participation Letter

The Georgia Debate Union has produced a letter for high schools to use while recruiting students to their debate teams. It emphasizes the benefits of debate, including for college admissions, research skills, travel, and fun. Please feel free to download and use this whenever necessary. Downloads Debate Participation Letter
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Novice Debate


Tech Tip - LabTimer

Need a timer for debating or judging? Got an iPod or iPhone? There's an app for you: LabTimer. While there are other debate timing apps available (including iDebate), nothing comes close to LabTimer. Designed for timing multiple test tubs during lab experiments, it has four independent timers that can be set to different start times, labeled (for instance, Constructive, Rebuttal, Aff Prep, Neg Prep), runs in the background, and has a non-…
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Paperless Debate


2010-2011 College Debate Topic Area Announced: Immigration Reform

The controversy are for the 2010-2011 NDT/CEDA debate season has been announced: Immigration Policy.  The following resolutions are the potential topic for this year's debate tournaments: 1. Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase the number of and/or substantially expand beneficiary eligibility for its visas for one or more of the following: employment-based immigrant visas, nonimmigrant temporary…


Mike Lacy Named Best Rising Junior

The 2010 Debaters' Choice Awards have named Mike Lacy (UGA '12) the Best Rising Junior in the United States. The DCA is a result of student voting from all college debate teams and reflects the respect Mike has earned from his peers during his already highly successful career. Also mentioned in the DCA was his partner, Brittany Cambre, recieving votes for Best Varsity Debater of the Year. Full results are available here. Congratulations to…
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Senior Profile: Karen Harrison

Senior Karen Harrison recently completed her college debate career at UGA. Originally from Celebration, Florida (home of Disney), she debated for Wake Forest University for two years before transferring to Georgia. She finished with a very successful career, clearing at multiple national tournaments, capped off with wins over two first round at-large bid teams en route to the Quarterfinals of the 180+ team University of Texas tournament. Karen…


Welcome NY Times Readers

For those who haven't yet seen it, the Georgia Debate Union was recently featured in the New York Times for innovations related to paperless debate. Although from reading the article it may appear that the GDU is ambivalent or even opposed to paperless, we're actually ardent supporters. In fact, starting with the 2009-2010 season, UGA teams debated entirely paperless. We've been so satisfied with the change that we plan to continue for…
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