Hello everyone! Kankee Briefs has been in collaboration with Circuit Debater in order to revamp the site before the start of the upcoming 2026-2027 debate season. We added concept mapping in order to visually represent the connections between concepts and to more thoroughly showcase all that there is to know about debate. We have also substantially updated the site to encourage further assistance from debaters like you. ld.circuitdebater.org/w/index.php/Main_Page If you are

"In the summertime, when the weather is high, you got debate technology on your mind" - Mungo Jerry? Within the next weeks is the upcoming release of the 2026 Sept-Oct topic and the beginning of the 2026-2027 debate season. In the meantime, the debate coach Anthony Trufanov (otherwise known as Truf) released a free substitute and/or replacement for Verbatim called CardMirror. To skip the hullabaloo about how great CardMirror is, skip the explanation below and download CardMir

*09-24-2025 Update: the previous version of the "Commonality Tracker" had errors after downloading. An updated version has been uploaded. Kankee Briefs has produced a lot of block files over our existence, a total of 1000+ pages to date, so I hope it’s not inaccurate to say that we know a thing or two about how to make one. This article is about a file called an “argument tracker,” which is a tool similar to flowing to assist you with creating block files, tracking what argum