Resources.

What we use. Then everything else worth having, gone through by hand.

Ours.

Spread

Our head coach’s card-cutting editor. Free, open source, in the browser, no account. Modeled on Card Mirror.

Card Mirror

A card editor that works with Verbatim: cut, format and organize evidence offline.

Verbatim

The Word template every circuit debater cuts cards in. Free and open source.

Equality in Forensics

Free lectures, files and coaching, built for students without a program behind them.

The rest.

Several hundred links, collected from everywhere debaters trade them. In October 2026 we opened every one. 274 answered. The dead, the parked and the ones that pointed nowhere are not here. One line each, in our words.

Tab and infrastructure (11)

• Tabroom: The NSDA’s tournament platform. Registration, pairings, ballots, results, all of it.
• Tabroom Help Center: The official manual for registering and running tournaments on Tabroom.
• NSDA Campus: The NSDA’s online rooms for virtual tournaments, tied into Tabroom.
• Open Caselist: Where teams disclose. Scout opponents, read round reports, download open-source files.
• NDCA: The National Debate Coaches Association. Open Evidence, coaching resources, circuit protocols.
• NSDA Resource Center: The NSDA’s training materials, round videos and rulebooks.
• Classrooms.cloud: Virtual venue management for online tournaments, run alongside Tabroom.
• SpeechWire: The other tournament platform. Management portal for directors and registrants.
• Tabbycat: Open-source tab software built for British Parliamentary and two-team formats.
• Calico: Lightweight web tab for small circuits, middle school and novice tournaments.
• Tournman: Desktop pairing software for local policy and parliamentary tournaments.

Prep, search and files (19)

• Haku: Searches 3.5 million Open Caselist cards from 2013 on, by year, event, school, side, tournament and round.
• PrepSync: AI-assisted card and evidence search.
• Circuit Debater: A large archive of cases and files from circuit LD and Policy debaters.
• Logos Debate: Drills, evidence sets and prep materials for LD and PF.
• High School LD Caselist: The LD disclosure wiki. Cites, round reports, open-source files.
• High School PF Caselist: The Public Forum disclosure wiki.
• High School Policy Caselist: The Policy disclosure wiki, and where camp and team files get downloaded.
• College Policy Caselist: NDT and CEDA disclosure. Where high schoolers go for college files.
• College LD Caselist: NFA-LD disclosure, the policy-style college version of LD.
• NDCA Open Evidence: Every summer’s camp files, free, hosted on Open Caselist.
• Cardr: Open-source browser extension that cuts cards from a page straight into Verbatim.
• Cardr Search: The hosted version: search and auto-citation from your browser sessions.
• CardCutPro: A web app for storing and organizing cards, with highlighting built in.
• CardCutter AI: AI-assisted summaries and citation formatting for articles.
• QuickCard: Browser extension that turns news pages into cards by tag.
• DebateDash: Timer, rebuttal drills and efficiency practice in one place.
• Debate Flow: A digital flow in the browser, with collaboration.
• Cross-X: The old forum. Decades of policy debate argument and evidence exchange.
• PlanetDebate: The old commercial evidence hub, with its brief and lecture archive.

Timers and flows (5)

• DebTime: A minimal, high-visibility web timer for any device in round.
• DebateTimers.com: Browser timers with multi-room sync for tournament use.
• DebateKeeper: The most customizable Android debate timer. Custom bells, prep logic, open source.
• FlowMaster: Flowing on iOS and Android, with gesture column movement and timers.
• NCFCA Flow Sheets: Printable flow templates for Policy and LD.

Calculators and rankings (5)

• DebateBreaker: Break probability from your record and the field.
• CDA Break and Bid Calculator: Monte Carlo break and bid odds for PF and LD, from Civic Debate Academy.
• Circuit Debater Screw: How many debaters get the screw, from entries, rounds and break depth.
• SMODI LD Rankings: Unofficial national LD rankings, computed from results.
• TOC Bid List: Who has bids, by tournament.

Lectures and video (12)

• DebateRounds: Recordings of high-level rounds across circuits. Film study.
• DebateDrills: Drills and mechanics, on video.
• Bill Batterman: Lectures on Policy and LD fundamentals from one of the most respected coaches on the circuit.
• Proteus Academy: Strategy lectures on circuit trends.
• One-World Debate: Lectures on argumentation and cross-ex.
• Go Fight Win: LD mechanics, drilling and round evaluation.
• HSR Debate: Policy theory and breakdowns of circuit rounds.
• NSDA: Official training videos and final rounds.
• LD Debate Prep: Training materials for circuit LD.
• Argument Institute: Argument structure, strategy and research method.
• The Debate Guru: Case ideas and concept breakdowns for novices.
• Extemp Central: Extemp questions, strategy and news.

Philosophy and critical theory (31)

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The standard for framework research. Peer-reviewed entries on everything.
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Often the clearer explanation when the SEP runs dense.
• 1000-Word Philosophy: Every major position in a thousand words. Learn a framework the night before.
• PhilPapers: The directory of philosophical literature. Niche primary sources for K affs.
• PhilArchive: Open-access philosophy preprints. Full texts you can actually cut.
• Teaching Philosophy through LD: Jacob Nebel and co-authors on how LD teaches philosophy. Useful for thinking about framework.
• Project MUSE: Humanities and social science journals, including much of the critical theory canon.
• Marxists Internet Archive: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Gramsci and the broader left tradition, free. Core K literature.
• Verso Books Blog: Essays from the main left-theory publisher. Often where a new K starts.
• e-flux Journal: Contemporary art and critical theory writing.
• Aeon: Long essays by academics for general readers. The plain-language version of a framework.
• Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Serious reviews of new philosophy books. Know what a book argues before you read it.
• Daily Nous: News from inside the philosophy profession. Good for spotting new literature.
• Monoskop: A wiki and library of arts, media and humanities. Deep for media theory.
• PhilSci-Archive: Open preprints in the philosophy of science.
• CTheory: Journal of theory and technology. Accelerationism, digital postmodernism.
• CCRU: The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit archive. Accelerationism and cybernetics.
• The Funambulist: Politics of space and bodies. Settler colonialism, biopolitics.
• Kritikal Discussions: Critical pedagogy meets competitive debate strategy.
• Utilitarianism.com: Classic and contemporary texts on consequentialist ethics.
• Kant.org: Kant’s ethics, the critiques, the moral law.
• Nietzsche Source: The digital edition of Nietzsche’s works and fragments.
• Foucault.info: Lectures, interviews and primary texts by Foucault.
• Lacan.com: Lacan, Žižek and psychoanalytic theory.
• Heidegger.org: Biography, bibliography and research resources on Heidegger.
• Pragmatism Cybrary: Dewey, Peirce, Rorty and American pragmatism.
• Animal Ethics: Animal rights, anti-speciesism, moral extensionism.
• Disability Studies Quarterly: Open-access journal. Core literature for ableism and disability kritiks.
• Surveillance Studies Network: Research on panopticism, state surveillance and data.
• Borderlands: Refereed journal on postcolonialism, migration and sovereignty.
• EJnet: Environmental racism, climate justice, frontline resistance.

Research databases (19)

• Google Scholar: The entry point for scholarly literature and legal citations.
• Semantic Scholar: Paper search with generated summaries and citation context. Faster to tell whether a paper is worth cutting.
• JSTOR: The main digital library for academic journals and social science.
• SSRN: Working papers in law, economics and policy, usually free and years ahead of publication.
• arXiv: Open preprints in physics, computer science, economics and statistics. AI and climate evidence lands here first.
• PubMed: The National Library of Medicine’s index. The source for health, pandemic and bioethics arguments.
• CORE: Over 250 million open-access papers. The way around a paywall.
• DOAJ: The Directory of Open Access Journals. Nothing you find is paywalled.
• OpenAlex: A fully open index of papers, authors, institutions and the citation graph between them.
• Connected Papers: One paper in, a graph of the literature around it out.
• Elicit: A research question against millions of papers, findings extracted into a table.
• Consensus: Answers a yes-or-no research question from what the papers actually conclude.
• Zenodo: CERN’s open repository for datasets, papers and software. The raw data behind a claim.
• Zotero: Free reference manager. One click captures and formats a citation. Set it up before a big prep cycle.
• HeinOnline: The law review archive. Most school and university libraries carry access.
• Internet Archive: The Wayback Machine. Cite a page that has since been edited or taken down.
• LexisNexis: News, legal records and government data for deep research.
• Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed journals across humanities, social sciences and geopolitics.
• EBSCOhost: Thousands of scholarly journals and periodicals, usually through a library.

Think tanks and policy (45)

• Brookings: Non-partisan policy analysis. Internal links and disadvantage impacts.
• RAND: Unusually rigorous methodology, especially on defense, security and health.
• CSIS: International relations, trade, technology, energy and geostrategy. Heavy use on foreign policy topics.
• Council on Foreign Relations: The cleanest short explainers of any international issue. Publishes Foreign Affairs.
• Carnegie Endowment: Nuclear policy, regional conflict, democracy, the use of force.
• Cato Institute: Libertarian. The strongest free-market or civil-liberties version of an argument.
• Heritage Foundation: Conservative policy research. Read beside Brookings and Cato to cut both sides honestly.
• American Enterprise Institute: Center-right economic and foreign policy analysis.
• Urban Institute: Domestic social policy data: housing, poverty, education, health.
• Peterson Institute: The standard citation for trade, tariffs and international macroeconomics.
• Atlantic Council: Transatlantic security and geopolitics, fast on unfolding crises.
• Wilson Center: Non-partisan, strong regional programs, large free archive.
• Chatham House: The UK’s Royal Institute of International Affairs. A non-US frame.
• Hoover Institution: Stanford-based research on economics and governance.
• Pew Research Center: The most-cited polling and social trend data. Framing and inherency.
• SIPRI: Authoritative data on arms transfers and military spending.
• International Crisis Group: On-the-ground conflict analysis. Impact scenarios with real specificity.
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: The Doomsday Clock, and the standard citation for nuclear and existential risk.
• Center for American Progress: Progressive proposals on growth, justice and security.
• Belfer Center: Harvard Kennedy School. Nuclear security, cyber policy, strategy.
• Jamestown Foundation: Security and intelligence across Eurasia and China.
• Lowy Institute: Australia, the Indo-Pacific and global power.
• Observer Research Foundation: Indian think tank on Asian geopolitics, technology and development.
• CEPA: Transatlantic security and democratic resilience.
• CISAC: Stanford’s center on biosecurity, nuclear risk and cyber.
• Stimson Center: Global security, arms control, environment.
• Hudson Institute: Defense, trade and energy policy.
• CNA: Operations research for the Navy and Marines.
• Institute for Defense Analyses: Advises the Department of Defense on national security.
• Center for International Policy: Demilitarization and human rights.
• Freedom House: Tracks democracy, political rights and civil liberties worldwide.
• European Policy Centre: Brussels. European integration, economic policy, foreign affairs.
• CSBA: Military strategy and force structure.
• ECFR: European foreign and security policy.
• East-West Center: The US, Asia and the Pacific.
• German Marshall Fund: Transatlantic cooperation on security and democracy.
• IISS: The UK authority on military conflict, defense capability and arms control.
• RUSI: British defense and security research.
• CNAS: Indo-Pacific security, national security technology, deterrence.
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Domestic fiscal policy and assistance programs.
• World Resources Institute: Climate risk and resource management.
• Center for Global Development: Development, foreign aid, global health.
• CEPR: Employment, welfare and macroeconomics.
• Baker Institute: Rice University. Energy, global health, foreign policy.
• Institute for China-America Studies: China-US relations and strategic competition.

Government data and records (23)

• Congressional Research Service: Non-partisan reports written for Congress on nearly every policy question. Dense and persuasive to judges.
• Congress.gov: Bill text, status, sponsors, committee action. What a bill actually does.
• Congressional Record: The official record of debate and proceedings in Congress.
• GAO: Audits federal programs and says what is failing. Inherency and solvency deficits.
• CBO: The official scorekeeper for what legislation costs. The answer to most spending disadvantages.
• Federal Register: Daily record of federal rules and proposed regulations. Where executive action happens.
• Data.gov: The federal open data catalog.
• US Census Bureau: Population, housing and economic data at every level.
• data.census.gov: The query interface for Census data.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment, wages, inflation, productivity.
• FRED: Hundreds of thousands of economic time series from the St. Louis Fed, chartable and citable.
• NBER: Economic working papers and econometric research.
• World Bank Open Data: Development indicators for nearly every country and year.
• OECD: Comparative statistics across developed economies.
• UN Data: Statistical databases from across the UN system.
• UN Digital Library: UN documents, voting records, security publications.
• IMF eLibrary: Economic surveillance, financial stability, trade.
• Our World in Data: Research and clean charts on long-run global problems. Framing and impact magnitude.
• Harvard Dataverse: Social science datasets and replication files.
• NTIS: Government-sponsored research and technical reports.
• Oyez: Supreme Court oral arguments, decision summaries and opinions.
• Law Library of Congress: The largest collection of legal materials and foreign legislation.
• EPA Research: Air quality, water safety, climate assessments.

News and analysis (12)

• Foreign Affairs: The flagship journal of international relations. Cut constantly.
• Foreign Policy: Faster-moving, with strong regional reporting.
• The Economist: Weekly global analysis with a consistent frame. Useful because its bias is legible.
• Reuters: Wire reporting with minimal spin. Uncontested factual claims.
• Associated Press: The other wire. Between AP and Reuters, almost any recent event, neutrally.
• Politico: Process reporting. Whether something will actually pass.
• Axios: Short briefings, quick to skim between rounds.
• Lawfare: National security and law. Surveillance and war-powers topics.
• Just Security: NYU-based analysis of security law and human rights. The counter-read to Lawfare.
• War on the Rocks: Practitioner-written defense strategy. Specificity in military scenarios.
• Defense One: Defense technology, budgets and policy, daily.
• AllSides: The same story from left, center and right. The fastest way to find the other side’s best evidence.

Software and documents (6)

• SpeechDrop: Fast, secure doc sharing in round. The standard way to send a speech doc.
• Tabroom Share: Tabroom’s own in-round doc sharing, tied to the entry.
• Verbatim Documentation: The full Verbatim manual. Worth an hour early in the season for the shortcuts.
• ebb: Open-source keyboard-first flowing editor. Local files, no account.
• SpeechWire: Tournament services and live results.
• DebateDrills Resource List: Another big curated list, kept by a coaching organization.

Camps and institutes (23)

• Victory Briefs Institute: The national hub for LD and PF training.
• National Symposium for Debate: Residential and online LD, PF and Policy camps since 2006.
• DebateDrills: Online and in-person LD and PF, with a published curriculum.
• Harvard Debate Council Summer Workshops: Summer workshops taught by circuit coaches.
• Harvard Debate Council: Policy, PF, LD and Speech instruction.
• Michigan Debate: The most rigorous Policy institute, known for its research standards.
• Michigan Classic: Michigan’s four-week version.
• Dartmouth Debate Institute: One of the premier Policy workshops.
• Dartmouth Debate: The program behind it.
• Emory National Debate Institute: The Barkley Forum’s high school institutes, since 1966.
• Northwestern NHSI: The “cherubs” program, one of the oldest institutes in the country.
• Georgetown Debate Seminar: Long-standing Policy institute.
• Stanford National Forensic Institute: Policy, LD, PF and Parli at Stanford.
• UC Berkeley Debate Institute: Policy, LD framework and Parli on the West Coast.
• UT Dallas Debate Camp: Policy and LD in Texas.
• KU Debate Camp: Midwest Policy training with a long record.
• Wake Forest Debate: College program with high school outreach and workshops.
• Lumos Debate: Camps and coaching across formats.
• Capitol Debate: PF, LD and Speech summer workshops.
• Summit Debate: PF, Congress and individual events.
• Champion Debate Institute: Florida. PF and LD.
• Florida Forensics Institute: Speech events, Oratory, Extemp and PF.
• Bay Area Speech and Debate Academies: Regional clinics.

Briefs, curricula and organizations (11)

• DebateUS: Daily evidence files, topic analysis and curricula across events.
• NDCA Open Evidence, explained: What the Open Evidence Project is and how to get each year’s camp files.
• Caselist Archive: Past seasons’ caselists. Scout an opponent’s history or trace an argument.
• Debatabase: Argument banks for hundreds of motions. Fast case construction.
• Debate Resources LD: LD topic resources by season, frameworks, a novice guide.
• Foundation Briefs: Non-profit briefs, free to urban debate league students.
• West Coast Publishing: Policy, LD and individual events handbooks.
• Ethos Debate: Coaching and workshops on communication and structure.
• Logos Debate: Briefs, Christian circuit guides and rhetoric modules.
• PepTalk: Free mentorship from nationally competitive debaters for students without resources.
• Extemp Genie: Aggregated news briefs for Extemp prep.

Equity and community (8)

• Equality in Forensics Discord: Student-run. Free tournaments, coaching, an accessible community.
• Women’s Debate Institute: Free debate education for gender-marginalized students.
• LD Docs: The LD Google Group. Email to ask to be added.
• Forensics Debate Discord: Multi-event server. Practice rounds, strategy, circuit chat.
• Public Forum Debate Discord: The largest PF server.
• Congressional Debate Discord: Chambers, legislation, practice.
• CDA Financial Aid: Financial support and grants for competing.
• r/Debate: The subreddit. All formats.

Leagues and governing bodies (35)

• NAUDL: The National Association for Urban Debate Leagues. Twenty leagues across the country.
• NCFL: The National Catholic Forensic League and its Grand National Tournament.
• NCFCA: Home-school forensics, regional and national.
• Stoa USA: Christian home-school speech and debate, and NITOC.
• UIL Texas: Governs Texas competition. Useful free guidance.
• Texas Forensic Association: Texas high school qualification standards and rules.
• Florida Forensic League: Our state association. Championship qualification and rules.
• GFCA: Georgia Forensics Coaches Association.
• IHSA Speech: Illinois.
• PHSSL: Pennsylvania.
• OHSSL: Ohio.
• DANEIS: New England independent schools. Parli and public speaking.
• Atlanta Urban Debate League: A model urban league with a good public getting-started set.
• Chicago Debates: One of the largest urban leagues.
• Boston Debate League: Debate in the classroom.
• NYC Urban Debate League: Access, tournaments and coaching across New York City.
• Bay Area Urban Debate League: Policy access in the Bay Area.
• Silicon Valley Urban Debate League: Bay Area, with technology-sector partners.
• Houston Urban Debate League: Tournaments and evidence for Houston public schools.
• Dallas Urban Debate Alliance: Middle and high school circuits in Dallas.
• Detroit Urban Debate League: Policy across Detroit public schools.
• CEDA: College policy debate and national rankings.
• APDA: US college parliamentary debate.
• NPDA: The largest US college parli organization.
• IPDA: Extemporaneous individual and team debate.
• National Forensic Association: College. NFA-LD and individual events.
• International Forensic Association: International college tournaments.
• AMTA: College mock trial. Annual case materials and rules.
• NHSMTC: High school mock trial nationals.
• WSDC: The World Schools Debating Championships.
• WUDC: The World Universities Debating Championship, in British Parliamentary.
• IDEA: The International Debate Education Association.
• CSDF: Canada’s bilingual national student debate federation.
• ESU: The English-Speaking Union. The Schools Mace and international public speaking.
• Australian Debating Federation: The national umbrella in Australia.

Speaking, writing and skills (9)

• Purdue OWL: The free guide to citation formats, argument structure and academic writing.
• American Rhetoric: Thousands of speeches with text and audio. The best free corpus for studying rhetoric.
• TED Talks: Study pacing, structure and delivery.
• Toastmasters: Structured public speaking practice, many clubs open to students.
• Hemingway Editor: Flags dense sentences and passive voice. Tightens a lay-friendly case.
• Grammarly: Catches what makes a case read as sloppy to a lay judge.
• Anki: Spaced repetition. Author names, dates, framework definitions.
• Obsidian: Local-first linked notes. A personal argument and evidence wiki.
• Otter.ai: Automatic transcription. A recorded practice round becomes a transcript you can review.