TheAntiEgo

I'm a former national debate champion and I've been building SuperDebate, adult competitive debate clubs and tournaments. We just ran a workshop in Roatan before a live championship.

This clip is about impact, which is honestly the most overlooked part of making an argument. Most people can make a claim and back it up with some evidence. But if you don't tell people why it matters, in concrete terms, you lose. A small argument with a huge impact can beat a strong argument with a weak one, because judges and audiences weight what they feel. "This leads to X" hits harder than "this is bad."

The other thing people miss is that your opponent doesn't have to beat your evidence. They just have to break the link between your evidence and your impact. If they can show your evidence doesn't actually lead to the scenario you described, your whole argument falls apart even if the facts are right.

There are millions of people who debated in school and have nothing as adults. No clubs, no leagues, no tournaments. We're building that. Local debate clubs that feed into real championships.

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Think you're bad at arguing? You're probably just missing a structure. In this workshop, SuperDebate founder John Connor breaks down the three core pillars that will put you in the top 1% of debaters.

What if the solution to America's education crisis has been around since the founding fathers? In this episode of the Super Debate Podcast, I sit down with John Hines, national champion debate coach, NSF-funded researcher, and CEO of DebaterHub, to talk about why debate needs to return to the center of education, and what happens if it doesn't.

I would be very interested in integrating this into an upcoming art production.

How would one go about finding engineers that can produce functionality similar to this, but recommending sentences from select news articles instead?