Prep software for high school Public Forum debate. It reads the caselist's round files into searchable cards, cuts new cards from a link in your format, and gives you a flow for the round itself. There's also practice: crossfire against an AI holding both cases' cards, and a practice judge for your flowed rounds.

Novice is free for good: search (showing 15% of results), flowing in plain boxes, Rhetorica and a few AI uses a week. JV is $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year for all the evidence. Varsity is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year and also writes for you.

Does the AI make up evidence?

No. The cutter only marks where a card starts and stops in the article and what to highlight, and anything that isn't an exact match gets thrown out. When a tool says what a card says, it has to quote the card.

Can I use it during a round?

Flowing works anywhere. Many tournaments don't allow outside help during a round, so check yours before using Listen, answers as you flow, Attack a card or the Assistant.

Is it part of OpenCaselist, Tabroom or the NSDA?

No. Flowstate is independent. Its cards come from round files teams posted to the open caselist, and they belong to the people who cut them.

Which events does it support?

Public Forum. Every speech, timer and tool is built around PF.

Public Forum · evidence & prep

Every card you need, already highlighted.

Search your own evidence and the caselist at once. Missing a card? Paste a link and it comes back cut, in your format.

PROElectricity PricesExample card

Moratoriums keep electricity bills from climbing

Halvorsen et al. 26 [Halvorsen, energy economist, "Prices and the grid," Example Review]

For decades residential prices tracked inflation, but that relationship broke in 2025, when utilities began serving hyperscale load. Analysts attribute the gap to data center demand, growing faster than new generation, and 43 million households already report difficulty paying, and a pause would stop the next wave of construction before prices lock in.

31 words read aloud0:07 at lay speed

/C1answered on your flowRebuttal 2:41Strength 8/10 · read by 14 teams

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Watch a round flow itself

A whole Public Forum round, fast, with every tool used when you'd use it.

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Demo

Your case, already on the flow. It comes straight from the Case builder, and every card shows as its tagline. Point at one to read it.

4:00Pro case

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Con case

Pro rebuttalyou

Con rebuttal

Pro summaryyou

Con summary

Pro FFyou

Con FF

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Cards you read show up here, in the order you read them.

Pro speaks firstResolved: The United States federal government should enact a moratorium on hyperscale data center construction.

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Also writes for you

Varsity

Flow does the prep. It answers their arguments as you flow and writes your next speech from your cards.
Practice against the other side. Crossfire against an AI with both cases' cards, and a practice judge for your rounds.
Frontlines, Prog and Attack a card, plus everything in JV.

All the evidence

JV

$5.99/ month

Every search result
The Field and the caselist's round files
More cuts and Assistant questions

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What you need it to prove

Ratepayers, not the companies, are paying for the new server farms

The article

Utilities in five states have asked regulators to approve rate increases tied directly to new server farm construction. Filings reviewed by this newsroom show residential customers absorbing 61 percent of the transmission cost in those cases, while the facilities themselves carry the rest. Two commissions have since ordered operators to pay their interconnection costs up front, a change that applies only to projects filed after January. Industry groups argue the buildout funds upgrades that would have fallen to ratepayers anyway, a claim the filings do not settle either way.

Ratepayers, not the companies, are paying for the new server farms

Okonkwo 26, review of state utility filings

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Your round, start to finish

What helps at each part of a round.

A Public Forum round, drawn to scale. Pick any part of it to see what helps right then.

Before the round

Find the cards, see what the field runs, and build the case.

SearchYour cards and the caselist, in contention folders.The FieldWhat teams run and how they answer it.Card cutterA link becomes a card in your format.Case builderContentions in reading order, timed at your speed.JudgesPaste the paradigm, get how to win them.

Card anatomy

Built from real rounds, card by card.

Flowstate reads the caselist's round files into cards first, and keeps everything a debater needs on each one. Point at a note to find it on the card.

The AI never writes the evidence

The cutter only points at words in the article: where the card starts and stops, and what to highlight. Anything that isn't an exact match gets thrown out.

Cut in your format

Your font, your tag size, your highlight color, and //AB on the end of every cite. It pastes into Word already cut.

Read from real round files

Every card keeps the school, team, tournament and round it came from, so you see how many teams read it.

Example card, made-up text

Electricity Prices · PRO

Moratoriums keep electricity bills from climbing

Halvorsen et al. 26 [Halvorsen, energy economist, 3-4-2026, "Prices and the grid," Example Review, accessed 2026-09-22] //AB

For decades residential prices tracked inflation, but that relationship broke in 2025, when utilities began serving hyperscale load. Analysts attribute the gap to data center demand, growing faster than new generation. 43 million households already report difficulty paying, and a pause would stop the next wave of construction before prices lock in.

Strength 8/10Read by 14 teams31 words · 0:07

How strong it is, and why

Scored out of 10 from how easy it is to block, how widely it's read, and how hard the database leans on its source.

Filed under the argument

Cards sit in contention folders with near-copies stacked, Pro and Con marked, next to the blocks teams answer them with.

Timed for what you read aloud

Only the highlighted words count, so a case or a block shows how long it runs at your speed before you stand up.

What's in it

From prep to the ballot.

Help mid-round

Type /C1 and answers to their C1 land on your flow. Varsity writes your next speech from your cards as you go.

Search everything

Your cards and the caselist together, in contention folders. Commas search several ideas at once.

Cut with AI

Paste a link and say what it has to prove. It comes back cut, in your format.

Rhetorica

Only the words you read aloud, counted and timed at your pace.

Card docs, sent live

Every card you read goes into one doc. Send the other team the link.

Crossfire practice

Three minutes against an AI holding both cases' cards, then a review.

Prog, written out

Frameworks, theory shells and Ks, with the answers to each.

Prep with your partner

Flow the same round at once, and send cards, blocks and cases by @handle.

Walk into your next round with your cards ready.

About Flowstate

Flowstate (flowstateprep.com) is prep software for Public Forum debate, built on the caselist by a PF debater who uses it in real rounds. It isn't a site for debating people online, and it isn't affiliated with OpenCaselist, Tabroom or the NSDA.

Questions people ask

What is Flowstate?: Prep software for high school Public Forum debate. It reads the caselist's round files into searchable cards, cuts new cards from a link in your format, and gives you a flow for the round itself. There's also practice: crossfire against an AI holding both cases' cards, and a practice judge for your flowed rounds.
Is it free?: Novice is free for good: search (showing 15% of results), flowing in plain boxes, Rhetorica and a few AI uses a week. JV is $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year for all the evidence. Varsity is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year and also writes for you.
Does the AI make up evidence?: No. The cutter only marks where a card starts and stops in the article and what to highlight, and anything that isn't an exact match gets thrown out. When a tool says what a card says, it has to quote the card.
Can I use it during a round?: Flowing works anywhere. Many tournaments don't allow outside help during a round, so check yours before using Listen, answers as you flow, Attack a card or the Assistant.
Is it part of OpenCaselist, Tabroom or the NSDA?: No. Flowstate is independent. Its cards come from round files teams posted to the open caselist, and they belong to the people who cut them.
Which events does it support?: Public Forum. Every speech, timer and tool is built around PF.