UNLV Debate Team

Huge news from the Cal State Northridge tournament!
For the first time in school history UNLV locked out SEMIFINALS!

CONGRATULATIONS to:
Hannah Crowell
Aaron Jimemez
Kevin Cisneros
Brit Johnston

An incredible accomplishment! #RebelDebate

It dates back to an argument with the Sophists and Plato, and you seem to be on Plato's side. Totally valid and its not for everyone.

Many such cases.

Us after every bad round.

Upon looking so do I! Lol.

We'd agree that something like twitch stream debate bros are mostly bad for democracy. But competitive debate is the best way to foster critical thinking in an academic setting.

How can we change beliefs if we dont engage with the other side?

We dont believe that is true at all. Meaningful discovery is exactly what the function of inquiry means.

But we wouldn't write of competitive debate so quickly. Even though we often argue what we dont believe it helps us think about the other side to strengthen our actual positions.

Often debaters think one thing is true but their research and evidence helps to change their minds, which can be good 2!

Hi! We agree with a lot of this. Argument has an advocacy function AND an inquiry function. We overlook the education and knowledge production too much. 1/2

It could endow at least 60 debate teams so they could travel without worrying about fundraising in perpetuity.

Unlv.edu/debate/support

We are debaters not lip sync experts. #RebelDebate

We just having fun out here.

Hey now wait a minute here....

This past weekend we had a LARGE entry at the Washburn Warmup tournament! Some results -
Sebastian Rios, 3rd novice speaker and semifinalist
Hannah Crowell, Jr quarterfinalist
Kevin Cisneros, Jr quarterfinalist
Porter Winterton, Jr Semifinalist

Way to go #RebelDebate!

Really trying not to watch #UNLV football game during debate tournament..

Wilder game than most of our rounds, and we already heard 'get off the rock' arguments. #RebelDebate

Please please please dont increase military presence in the Arctic please! #debaterjokes

Lots of new recruits this year. Time for us to shine! #rebeldebate

What if Flavor Flav endowed the debate team... we'd wear clock chains to every round.

#debatedaydreams

I mean who says no?

We out here

Love hearing from our fans.

If a person were debating in favor of fascism they'd be promptly kicked out of a debate round.

Even us pros know certain things arent debatable.

We are off and running folks!

Thinking of going for verification. We are the first college team of any type on Bluesky and we deserve a blue check, darn it.

We would never ever challenge anyone online.

We just respect that the best posters do appreciate debate and butt kicking.

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Aces fans, all votes count TWICE today! 👇

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Please stop calling the interaction with Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz "Debate team stuff."

We'd never talk like either of them and we don't debate about religion.

Our thoughts with the students, judges, and teachers at #NSDA. Strange and scary situation.

Since folks seem to be donating to Harvard for political reasons, consider a donation to UNLV Rebel Debate!

We argue politics and many other issues and we're on the front lines of teaching how to advocate for ourselves. And we could use our own endowment!

www.unlv.edu/debate/support

@nyuceda.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky