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BADASS Links

Our e-mail listserv is our main channel of communication, and we strongly encourage everyone interested in debating with BADASS to subscribe.

Links to Help You Learn How to Debate*

Debating Well, the official APDA guide to debate.

Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate. This page contains a list of logical fallacies, descriptions of each, and discussions of their use in the context of debate.

How to Case. This page is for inexperienced parliamentary debaters who need guidance on how to create new cases.

Twelve Things Debaters Should Know About Law. This is a quick-and-dirty debaters' guide to law and the legal system.

Ten Things Debaters Should Know About Economics. This is a quick-and-dirty debaters' guide to the economic way of thinking.

ParliDebate is an archive (actually, a treasure trove) of video and audio recordings of a wide variety of rounds available to watch in both the American Parliamentary and British Parliamentary (BP) styles of debate.

*There are TONS of other really helpful debate guides located on the BADASS Forum, which is only accessible to BADASS members who create a user account. What are you waiting for?

Links to Help You Get Comfortable in APDA

The APDA Wikipedia page has lots of background information about APDA.

APDA Web is the official website of the American Parliamentary Debate Association. Lots of useful information about APDA can be found there, including:

• A brief history of APDA including its by-laws and the current members of the Executive Board
• Information about parliamentary debate
• The schedule of APDA tournaments for the current school year
• Contact information for debate teams at current APDA schools
• Results for previous APDA tournaments
• Standings for the APDA "Team of the Year," "Speaker of the Year," "Novice of the Year," and "Club of the Year" rankings
• A guide to the APDA debate format

The APDA Forum is the place to go for all current information about what's going on in APDA. The current BADASS Secretary can provide information about creating an account to gain access to discussion topics such as:

• Board announcements
• Tournament information
• Hybrid requests
• Ride sharing
• Dino resources
• Novice resources

The APDA Wiki documents APDA's history, activities, and culture. Two especially useful pages are the list of APDA Neologisms, which includes all the debate slang that you'll need to know, and the page describing a typical debate tournament.

Debate Formats - a description of different formats for public debate and their various merits and drawbacks.

 

Recordings of Rounds

Listening to and watching audio or video recordings of good rounds in a great way to get better at debate.

Click the links below to see recordings of great Brandeis debaters.

Nationals 2010

Nationals 2008

Boston University 2007

West Point 2007

Vassar

semis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_WbPQ_cM6c

 

Brandeis IV

Finals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CahK6wMu5NQ

 

Brown 2012

Brown Octos - Brandeis Petra def. Columbia Feminism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIFQzEG8Sb4

 

Brown Semis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpjtH_dy6G4&feature=youtu.be

 

Brown Finals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3LQGMFqbig

 

Moho 2012

Quarters: Brandeis Fighting Dumbos v  Brown Quesedillas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rqEqiNDmw

 

Moho Semis   Brandeis Navajo v  Yale BB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0-rXs-QDts

 

Moho Finals: Brandeis Navajo Blanket v. Harvard/Brandeis Hybrid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oomsQJH0D8M

 

Harvard 2012

 

Octofinals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdhArHYffU

 

Columbia 2012

Demo round

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDRrgWlAoyE

 

Octo finals (Hopkins v Brandeis)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgkEOwKidoM

 

quarters (NYU v. Brandeis)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokxUGdoO0k

 

semis (Swarthmore v Brandeis)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nOwT05HwTU

 

Smith 2012

Novice Finals (Brandeis v. Wellesly)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j4715lWYr0

 

Nationals 2012

 

Brandeis DF v. Columbia BM

http://youtu.be/uOVvIwzI98Y

 

NU A v. Brandeis AP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU4HfqMffNA

 

Brandeis A v. Yale BK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzPqrefGL8A

 

Brandeis SW v. Yale BK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzMllTWJUBo

 

Brandeis AE v. WM HL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUOS3dLAjP8

 

WM RS v. AU A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJY8a2CHKw&list=PL4E5E32B5B678D50E&feature=mh_lolz

 

Semi-finals: Yale CF v. Yale BK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2Mkn7v2sk

 

Finals: Harvard LK v. Yale CF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zK-LW2hBD0

 

 

MIT

 

MIT Quarters: Harvard KZ def. Columbia BE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDtdtcuoPlM

 

MIT Semifinals Harvard KZ def. Yale CT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdJh2en8NNE

 

Bates

 

Brandeis Navajo Quarter Finals Bates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4gUT9vlm0w

 

Brandeis Navajo Semi-Finals Bate 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_APkSyUCuo

 

Brandeis Novice stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPKS6dpXY4I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ebgg5q73A