What is Congressional Debate?
Just starting with Congressional Debate? Listen to Ascend’s Chief Marketing Office and former NSDA and TOC Champion, Tyler Luu, summarize Congress—the speech and debate event unlike any other. (We promise it’s entertaining!)
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Presiding Officer Recency Sheet
If you plan to serve as a presiding officer in Congress, use this resource to keep track of speeches and questions. Once you click the below link, please make a copy if you would like to make the sheet editable for us in-round at a tournament.
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Guide to Source Quality
Judges pay attention to the quality of the sources that you use in your speech. We know that figuring out the right sources to use in your speeches can be challenging, so we created a guide to help you navigate this.
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Sample Congress Case
We’re excited to share a sample case written in block format. Block format is a proprietary argument structure that our CEO, Quest Sandel, developed for use in Congressional Debate. Tyler Luu won the NSDA National Tournament with this case.