Demo: Kuang vs. Tartakovsky

LOS ANGELES, Cali. — Victory Briefs 2012 — — Session One campers were treated to a face-off between two of the…

Meet the Staff of Session II: Karlyn Gorski

LOS ANGELES, CA — Today we’d like to share another one of our amazing staff members…

Register and Read: Free Access to JSTOR

JSTOR is offering a new service that gives individual researchers free access to a large portion of the content available through their site. As most of you know, JSTOR is a major source for scholarly articles often relevant to debate resolutions. I encourage…

First Student Demo Debate

Henry Zhang of Palos Verdes Peninsula and Rebecca Kuang of the Greenhill School engaged in a demonstration round…

The Six Truths Judges Will Never Admit

The Six Truths Judges Will Never Admit By: Sasha Arijanto and…

Product Feature: The Lincoln-Douglas Debate Canon

Victory Briefs Publishing is excited to offer several great new textbooks this season. One that has already proved popular is the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Canon.

10 Things You Don’t Know You’re Doing That Really Annoy Your Judges

10 Things You Don’t Know You’re…

Three Ways to Improve Your Efficiency in Rebuttals by Adam Torson

Many debaters fight the clock in every rebuttal. Often speed is used as a crutch to compensate for inefficiency, but at the cost of clarity and perceptual dominance. The best debaters, on the other hand, often seem to…

The Strategic Value of True Arguments by Adam Torson

“…we have now sunk to a depth where the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
 — George Orwell, Review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell in Adelphi (January 1939)

Meet the Staff of Session II: David McNeil

LOS ANGELES, CA — As a lead up to our next installment, we’d like to share some…

Meet the Staff of Session II: Ryan Lawrence

LOS ANGELES, CA — We’ve compiled a pretty amazing staff for Session II of VBI and…