Private Online Debate Coaching

Elite online speech and debate services designed and taught by former champions from the comfort of your home.

Online Speech & Debate Camp, Class, Tutors, Club and Coaches

Gain more knowledge with our flexible and fully online online debate programs, taught by former debate champions, all from the comfort of your home

What You'll Learn

Students learn the foundational skills needed to excel in traditional NSDA style debate circuits. Topics include:

  • Rhetoric & artful writing
  • Maximizing credibility, persuasive appeal, and room presence
  • Mastering the value/value criterion/contention model of debate
  • Defending and refuting popular frameworks
  • Giving powerful rebuttal speeches
  • Utilizing key substantive knowledge, including philosophy and policy

KEY SKILLS:

Rhetoric

Persuasion

Mastering Case Writing

Effective Rebuttal Speeches

Philosophy

Public Policy

What You'll Learn

Students learn the foundational skills needed to excel in progressive TOC style debate circuits. Topics include:

  • Flowing, no matter how fast opponents speak
  • Increasing speaking speed (i.e. spreading)
  • Foundations of debate strategy, including time allocation, win conditions, and speech-by -speech analysis of high-level debates
  • Researching and writing in-depth case briefs
  • Core principles behind popular arguments in debate, including cost-benefit analysis, philosophy, debate theory, and critical argumentation
  • Maximizing value from online resources, including Tabroom and the NDCA Wiki

KEY SKILLS:

Flowing

Spreading

Debate Strategy

Research

Foundations of Popular Strategies

Mastering Online Resources

What You'll Learn

Students learn the foundational skills needed to excel in sophisticated policy style argumentation. Topics include:

  • Impact weighing
  • Link weighing
  • Answering extinction scenarios
  • Writing and answering tricky counterplans
  • Writing and answering hyper-specific affirmatives
  • Defending and answering permutations

KEY SKILLS:

Topicality

Conditionality

Theory Paradigm Issues

Counterplan theory

Weighing

Answering theory tricks

What You'll Learn

Students learn the foundational skills needed to excel in sophisticated critical style argumentation. Topics include:

  • Giving the 1AR using a materiality framework
  • Going for and answering identity based Ks
  • Going for and answering "high theory" based Ks
  • Going for and answering policy-style Ks (cap, security, etc)
  • Giving the 2AR against Ks
  • Using and answering common K tricks

KEY SKILLS:

Topicality

Conditionality

Theory Paradigm Issues

Counterplan theory

Weighing

Answering theory tricks

What You'll Learn

Students learn the foundational skills needed to excel in sophisticated critical style argumentation. Topics include:

  • Constructing and defending consequentialist frameworks
  • Constructing and defending non-consequentialist frameworks
  • Learning how to identify and efficiently answer tricky frameworks
  • Reading and defending against critiques of analytical philosophy
  • Mastering philosophical concepts in a substantive and academic way
  • Answering and using traditional applications of philosophical frameworks

KEY SKILLS:

Topicality

Conditionality

Theory Paradigm Issues

Counterplan theory

Weighing

Answering theory tricks

What You'll Learn

Students learn the foundational skills needed to excel in sophisticated critical style argumentation. Topics include:

  • Answering and defending conditionality
  • Answering and defending counterplans
  • Answering and defending topicality
  • Answering and defending paradigm issues (e.g. non bi-directional aff paradigm issues, drop the debater vs drop the argument, reasonability vs competing interpretations, RVIs)
  • Impact weighing abuse (e.g. fairness vs education, aff theory vs neg theory, multiple shells vis a vis one another)
  • Identifying and answering "tricks" (e.g. skepticism, permissibility triggers, descriptive frameworks, floating PIKs, etc)

KEY SKILLS:

Topicality

Conditionality

Theory Paradigm Issues

Counterplan theory

Weighing

Answering theory tricks

Ready to start your debate journey?

Camp

Starting at
$1,995
For a 2-Week Package

  • Ages: 6th Grade - 12th Grade
  • Events: LD and PF 
  • Dates: June
  • Fully Online

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Team

Starting at
$2,750
PF and LD Teams

  • Ages: 7th Grade - 12th Grade
  • Events: LD and PF 
  • Dates: August - April
  • Travel Team

1:1 Tutoring

Starting at
$75
Various Packages Available

  • Ages: 1st Grade - Adults
  • Events: All
  • Dates: Year-Round
  • Bespoke Scheduling

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Online Speech & Debate Camp, Class, Tutors, Club and Coaches

Elite online speech and debate camp, classes, tutoring, academy and coaching for Lincoln-Douglas (LD), Public Forum (PF), World School & Policy debate.

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LD & PF Debate Club Teams

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Working hard but not improving? Optimize your growth by tutoring with our expert instructors one-on-one.

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Our online debate camp has bespoke learning opportunities for modern day students with busy summer schedules.

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"There is nothing comparable to DebateDrills in the United States. I honestly can’t imagine how my last year as a debater would have gone without it. I can guarantee that if you join, it will be the single best decision you make in your debate career."

Jong Hak Won
B.A. Georgetown University
2nd Place, 2017 Stanford Invitational

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"Our son Pranav participated in the Club Team, Tutoring, and Online Debate Camp from 2018-2021. DebateDrills has done a wonderful job of pushing Pranav's critical thinking abilities, providing personal advice, and fostering a fun environment. We strongly recommend DebateDrills."

Sathya Kaginele
DebateDrills Parent (2018-2021)

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"DebateDrills coaches are without a doubt the best speech and debate coaches in the United States. They taught me lasting skills I still use today in my everyday life. I enthusiastically recommend DebateDrills without qualification nor reservation."

Brennan Caruthers
B.A. Northeastern University
5th Place, 2013 UC Berkeley Invitational

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"As parents, we were very appreciative of the efforts DebateDrills made to keep expenses as low as possible. They understand that debating can be expensive and work to minimize costs while maximizing the attention and support given to each student they work with."

William Towner
DebateDrills Parent (2017-2020)

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"I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have been on the Debate Club Team for all 4 years of high school. DebateDrills actually cares about and are invested in their students as people, and that care really shows."

Haritha Kumar
Georgetown University, Class of 2025
NSDA Academic All-American

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"Our experience with DebateDrills was amazing. As my son, Jackson, began applying for colleges, the DebateDrills team proved to be an invaluable resource from providing guidance and insights to assisting with college recommendations for debate scholarships."

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DebateDrills Parent (2019-2020)

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Lincoln-Douglas
Public Forum

Why Join Our Lincoln-Douglas Debate Club Team?

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Students lacking access to professional debate coaching are at a significant competitive disadvantage compared to their peers. Many middle and high schools around the United States invest 6-figure budgets into their Speech and Debate programs. Elite coaches at these schools help their students devise complex strategies, find high-quality evidence, write strategic cases, and tip the scale to win big debates. Our online debate club teams were created to provide access to such coaching and balance the disparity. DebateDrills Club Teams consist of highly-motivated students across the United States that produce debate materials in a closed-loop network with close guidance from our award-winning coaching staff.

Our students have won every prestigious Round Robin in the United States, received 100+ bids to the TOC, and championed over 40 Varsity National Invitationals. We are the first Debate Club to have three separate students in the Championship Debate of the Tournament of Champions in three consecutive seasons (2017-2019).
Our coaches were all top competitors in high school and are subject matter experts in debate.

Based off overwhelmingly positive feedback and the accomplishments of our debate clubs, we have expanded every year since 2014. Members on the team have historically experienced significantly more competitive success due to the depth and intensity of preparation they receive. Want this to be you?

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Why Join Our Public Forum Debate Club Team?

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Club Team Head Coach Morgan celebrates winning the 2019 Glenbrooks Invitational.

Our online Public Forum Club Team is led by Head Coach is Morgan Swigert, who competed for The Blake School from 2016-2020 and championed the 2020 Tournament of Champions, 2019 Glenbrooks, 2020 Minnesota State Championship, 2019 National Debate Coaches Association Championship, and the 2020 Baker Cup, awarded to the most successful Public Forum team in the country. The DebateDrills Public Forum Club Team is overseen by Director of Content Raffi Piliero, who brings to the program his experience as a championship-winning coach and competitor in Lincoln-Douglas and Policy, as well as his experience as a full-time Public Forum classroom teacher.

Utilizing the in-house methodology we pioneered for organizing and delivering unparalleled quality service to families looking for elite private coaching, Morgan will oversee the development of students hoping to replicate his success in Public Forum. We anticipate having 10 teams working, coordinating, and sharing preparation during the 2021-2022 season, ranging from 9th graders to 12th graders. Our team is focused on qualifying for the Gold PF TOC, Silver PF TOC, and the NSDA National Championship.