This isn’t a repetition of the basics of LD you learned about in summer camp. This isn’t just a few hours of google searches summarized into a document. This is over one hundred pages and hundreds of hours of research!! It’s PACKED full of AMAZING content that you will want for the 2025-2026 NCFCA year. Lasting Impact’s model is to provide you with arguments and examples that you can use ALL YEAR long. This resource is for students who are looking to go deeper into the arguments.
We’ve found that the two toughest parts of LD are: (1) finding good examples for your own case; and (2) responding to your opponent’s case with counter-arguments.
That’s why the majority of the pages in this guidebook are dedicated to those two topics. We have 116 footnotes full of sources and examples you probably haven’t even heard of before to help you write your own aff case (yes, we’re talking examples beyond “the Space Race”). We have tons of additional reading material hand-picked by the research team. And we have on-case responses to every single value that we could think of (35 of them!). That means for every value—whether innovation, efficiency, national security, peace, human life, or environmental protection (or insert dozens more)—this guidebook contains arguments and examples on both sides. With background information, research, resolutional analysis, and two sample cases, this resource is a perfect place to start if you are wanting to take your debate journey deeper.
More about this product-
– 50 definitions
– 8 categories of resolutional analyses
– Plenty of background material
– 40+ articles linked at the end for further study, and
– 2 full cases written by LD Speaks Champion at last year’s Nationals, Caleb Formo.
People who have used Lasting Impact’s guidebooks can’t recommend them enough. Here’s what people have said about our previous guidebooks…
Coach Dan in WA wrote, “Your sourcebooks are always by far the best.” Coach Rachelle in TX wrote. And Coach Tena Crosby, who has been coaching professional public speaking for over 10 years, said, “This past season, we purchased and used the Lasting Impact LD Guidebook and it was FAR AND AWAY the best sourcebook I have ever used.”
Head to the SHOP and get your NCFCA LD Guidebook today. It’s on SALE until Sept. 27. https://lastingimpact.info/product/book24431/
This is Ethan Tong’s third LD guidebook! Ethan has coached nearly a hundred LD students across the nation over the last four years, including last year’s LD NCFCA champion. In the process, he’s accumulated over 1,000 hours of coaching. All of that comes after a successful high school career that included 15 top-3 placements and two national oral advocate awards. You can sign up for coaching or for Ethan’s LD Club HERE. Ethan is also offering a FREE Apologetics Club that also begins this week.
Ethan will be receiving his Masters of Divinity from Truett Theological Seminary in December of 2025. He attended Hillsdale College, where he graduated in the top ten of his class.
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