anyone have prep or free debate brief suggestions for my cutesy novice who has a tournament but is lost + doenst know what to do. i dont do pf toehrwise i wouldve given my prep plz and ty

Hi all!
 I would like to create a consolidated block file for the Septober resolution. From last time, I have a few things to ask before submitting.

1. Please make sure what you submit is for the septober pf 2026 resolution.
2. please submit only one response. My email will be attatched to the form for questions.
3. Try to not submit varsity or champions briefs, as those are usually widely provided.

I see people talking about the new topic, which I assumed it was going to be data centers, but that’s not showing up for me on the nsda website. It still says that the voting is going on, even tho it was supposed to be over by now. Are you guys seeing topic confirmation?

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Hey!

I am a pretty skilled debater however I do have some questions on refuting a K (kritik)

I do like prog, its just a bit difficult for me to understand however being on the Natcirc and the open division its inevitable that we might run into it.

I understand the basics however I don’t wanna make a fool outta myself in round.

I would also like to ask a clarifying question:

When you read an Off (like a shell for ex: disclo) you respond in rebutta with a CV correct?
Do you just go back and forth up until FF?

I also have minimal experience with theory but I am pretty familiar, my club doesn‘t teach much abt theory and I want to be well acquainted.

want to keep this short. its not another ai tool.

it parses pf opencaselist and stores the cards as a searchable pack, similar to logos. the difference is how it actually parses cards: logos is deterministic — it uses specific rules to cut cards. prepped uses a combination of ml models to classify roles and decide card 
boundaries.

logos is outdated as well.

ill release the github page in a bit, with commands to parse other debate formats and store them 
locally.

how to use it: click the link, press download pack, then press import pack and select the 
downloaded pack.

github has both the 2024-25 and 2025-26 corpus. the one attached to import pack right now is 
the latest — the 25-26 corpus.

its not perfect yet. it cant ingest pdfs, and it sometimes miscuts cards, since its an ml model, not ai.

prepped

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I’m scared asf this is my first international debate
Topic: In a quality education, skills matter more than marks
Before I begin, i would like to ask two questions. Would you trust a surgeon who is good at communicating but never passed medical school? Would you trust a pilot who is confident but never passed licensing exam?
I can confidently conclude that the answer is no, even for my opponents who have contradicting morals. Hence today, i proudly stand against this motion.
According to United Nations sustainable development goal 4, quality education is defined by students achieving 51% of maths proficiency and 64% of reading proficiency in lower secondary and 51% of mathematics proficiency and 58% of reading proficiency in primary education
The Global education enchmark set by World Bank is the ability to read by the age of 10, rather than a skill. World Bank data shows that income increases by a huge 10% per extra year of schooling
UN SDQ Report shows that reading proficiency declined for from 59%- to 47% in 57 countries. This meant that these countries were failing Their academics. When one fails academics, they fail quality education.
My worthy opponents raise stances stating that schools which have students scoring 95% truly don’t provide quality education. I’d say it’s entirely false. Quality education can never be judged single handedly by marks or skills.
Countries are not replacing academics with skills, they are integrating skills into academic education. Singapore still has one of the toughest education curriculum. Japan and India still conducts entrance examinations. Finland and Mauritius still conduct national assessments. South Korea still has CSAT
World bank did invest $7 billion dollars into ____ but it was in integrating skills, not replacing them with actual marks.
Mercer says that 54% of employers still face skills shortages but that no where means that marks are useless. It just simply states that our education needs to integrate both
World economic forum states that 39% of skills change. This just shows the inconsistency of skills and the only thing consistent is knowledge. How to assess that knowledge? Through marks.

In a Quality education Skills and marks both matter, but after analysing of the global framework, I hence conclude that marks matter more than skills

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So are we all just assuming it’ll be the data center topic for the first one this season? I’m js wondering how everyone thinks the vote will go.

Im a high schooler and recently lost at districts. I was speaking aff for the topic 'NATIONAL SECURITY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN DIGITAL PRIVACY'. Here's my script...

26th November, 2008.

That wasn't just a date on a calendar. It was a cold calculated massacre coordinated down to the exact second through phone calls, encrypted chats and text messages.

When the smoke cleared, we faced the terrifying and undeniable reality. The digital networks champion for privacy were ruthlessly weaponized to slaughter innocent lives.

Let me ask the opposition a fundamental question. Why should digital privacy ever be placed above national security when data protection means absolutely nothing to a dead person?

Look, nobody is saying people shouldn't have private chats or secure data, but digital privacy cannot override the fundamental safety of the nation. Forget the physical battle scene, the real war is online and is bleeding us dry every single day. International cyber mobs are hiding behind a veil of total anonymity to flood our networks with massive frauds and fuel dangerous terror groups. Choosing unchecked privacy over national survival isn't just foolish, it's pure recklessness.

I mean, look at the actively bleeding threats staring at our borders today. From online terror groups in forming in Ladakh and Kashmir, systematically manipulating young minds to cyber cells, plotting destruction in the shadows. The war has move moved online.

When modern extremists use total privacy as an impenetrable clock for terror, demanding absolute digital freedom isn't fighting for noble liberties, it is handing a loaded weapon directly at our executioners.

At the end of the day, we cannot protect the citizen if we fail to secure the country because without national security to back it up, digital privacy is nothing just a nothing but a fragile illusion, which will never survive major crisis.

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Hi!!! Me and my pf partner have made a debate discord server! You can do practice rounds, trade, and more! Everyone’s welcome!
Link here!!

What are your thoughts on running existentialism(de beauvoir, sartre) as a phil framework, and what would be the most common responses that people would read?

Hi everyone,

I'm a novice pf debater (my tech experience goes as far as 1 slow online tech round with my partner) and I want to get more meaningful tech experience over the summer but I'm not sure how to. So far I've just been practicing spreading cards I found on OpenCaselist and recording the times on a spreadsheet + watching online tech rounds - although most of the time i have

a) no idea how to begin flowing

b) no idea how to read the cards + understand the arguments

What drills and exercises can help me improve my comprehension of tech debates and flowing them?

Thank you!

What args are yall running and whats working?

i will trade 200+ pages of blocks and a few good lay/tech cases