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World Schools Debate resources
Everything on this page is free, and everything is the real thing: the same templates, references, and drills we use inside our training programs. Print the cheat sheets, run the motions at practice, and keep the references open on tournament day.
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The debate motion bank
12,000+ real tournament motions, searchable by topic, motion type, and year, including every Worlds (WSDC) motion since 1994. Enough material for a decade of scrimmages.
Open the Motion BankCheat sheets
Print these and bring them into the prep room. Each sheet is the exact structure we drill in class. Fill it in during the hour and your speech is already organized.
First Speaker
PrintableA printable prep-room template for the first speaker: set-up, definitions, stance, split, winning metric, and two fully mechanized arguments.
Open and printSecond Speaker
PrintableA printable template for the deputy speech: rebuttal in "they say / however" form, rebuilding, and the extension argument.
Open and printThird Speaker
PrintableA printable clash sheet for the whip: three clashes, each with response, internal weighing, and external weighing.
Open and printQuick references
The rules, criteria, and vocabulary of the format, condensed. Useful for new debaters, parents, and anyone judging their first tournament.
Format Reference
PrintableSpeech order, timings, reply-speech rules, prep-time rules, and the 40/40/20 judging criteria on one page.
Open and printMotion Types
Policy, value, actor, and regret motions: what each asks you to prove, where each debate is usually won, and example motions for every type.
Open the referenceGlossary
Every term your coach will use, defined: burden, caseline, clash, countermodel, extension, metric, POI, split, weighing, whip, and more.
Open the referencePractice & prep
Materials for running real practice: a minute-by-minute plan for the prep hour and a motion bank deep enough for a full season of scrimmages.
Prep Planner
PrintableA minute-by-minute plan for the impromptu prep hour: what your team should be doing at 0:10, 0:25, 0:45, and 0:55, with a printable checklist.
Open and printPractice Motions
40 World Schools practice motions organized by motion type (policy, value, actor, and regret) for scrimmages and prep drills.
Open the referenceDeep-dive guides
The resources above tell you what to write down. These guides explain why: the format, the judging model, and how World Schools differs from the formats most American debaters start in.
Templates teach structure. Coaches teach judgment.
Every one of these resources comes alive in a judged round with written feedback. Try a class and see the system working.
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