The plans
Pick your division.
Novice is free for good. JV opens all the evidence: every search result, The Field and the round files. Varsity also writes for you, before the round and during it.
Novice
Free for good. You never enter a card, so there's no trial to forget about.
- 3 cards cut every week
- 3 assistant questions every week
- 2 card checks every week
- 2 judge readings every week
- Search, showing 15% of the results
- Flow in plain boxes, and a sample round
- Rhetorica, timed at your speed
JV
All the evidence. Every result, The Field and the round files.
$4.17 a month, paid once a year
- Every search result
- The Field: what every team runs, and how they answer it
- Caselist files: the round files themselves
- 6 cards cut every 3 days
- 10 assistant questions every 3 days
- 4 card checks every 3 days
- 5 judge readings every 3 days
- 5 cases and 20 flows kept, unlimited starred cards
Varsity
Everything. It writes your answers too.
$8.33 a month, paid once a year
Everything in JV, and:
- Flow's tools: answers and your next speech as you flow, 15 rounds a month
- 15 frontlines and extensions every 3 days
- Prog, with 6 answers to theirs every 3 days
- 5 crossfire practices every 3 days
- Attack a card: its own article, used against it
- 9 cards cut and 20 assistant questions every 3 days
- 10 cases and 30 flows kept
Payments go through Stripe. Cancel or switch plans any time in Settings. Novice's AI uses come back every week, JV's and Varsity's every three days.
Showing 78 of 78 across 8 sections. Counted uses read Novice · JV · Varsity.
Search & evidence
131 from JVKeyword and meaning at once
Every planTwo searches run together. One matches your words, one matches cards that say the same thing differently. The results get merged.
Several ideas in one search
Every planPut commas between them. "grid, blackouts, hospitals" looks for all three and ranks cards that hit more of them higher.
Knows the topic's shorthand
Every planType GD and it finds golden dome. Type DC and it finds data centers. The synonyms come from what teams write on the caselist.
Results arrive in folders
Every planCards are grouped under the contention they belong to. Near-identical copies stack instead of filling the page.
Filter by school, tournament or caselist
Every planType it or pick from a list of what's in the database.
Filter by side, topic and source
Every planPro, Con or both. This month's resolution or an older one. Your uploads, the caselist, or cards you cut yourself.
Works from the keyboard
Every planSlash puts the cursor in the search box. Arrows or j and k walk the results. Escape gets you out.
Card strength, out of ten
Every planThree things decide it: how many teams carry the card, how hard the database leans on its source, and how many teams already prep answers. The reasons are shown.
Where a card has been read
Every planEach one carries the school, team, tournament and round it came out of.
Copy lands in Word cut
Every planUnderlining, highlighting, your font and your tag size all survive the paste. Google Docs too.
Your format everywhere
Every planCalibri, Arial or Times. Tag size 11 to 18pt. Your highlight color. Set it once and every card on the site uses it.
The whole result list
JVNovice search shows 15% of what matched. JV and Varsity show all of it.
Starred cards
Every planStar anything worth keeping. It lands on one page, and the case builder pulls straight from it. Novice keeps seven, JV and Varsity as many as you like.
The Field
61 counted · 4 from JVEvery contention teams run
Every planBuilt by reading every round file on the caselist for labels like "C1: ___", "1AC - ___" and "A2 ___".
And what they answer it with
JVThe blocks and frontlines teams read against each argument, collected from every school.
How much of the field runs it
JVEvery row has a bar, scaled against the most-run argument. The list reads as a ranking.
Who runs it, and where
JVOpen an argument to see the teams, the tournaments, and the file each card came from.
Does this card fit?
2 · 4 · 8An AI check on whether a card belongs under the contention it was filed under. The reasoning is saved with it.
The original round files
JVOpen the Word documents the cards were cut out of.
Cutting cards
92 countedCut from a link
3 · 6 · 9Paste the URL, say what you need it to prove.
Cut from pasted text
3 · 6 · 9For anything behind a login or a paywall, paste the article instead of the link.
The author's words, exactly
Every planThe AI hands back positions in the original text. It never writes prose of its own, and the server throws out anything that isn't an exact match.
Cut the way a person cuts
Every planMeasured against 1,500 real caselist cards. About 8% of a card ends up highlighted, in short pieces, spread out the way debaters do it.
Picks the side
Every planIt knows this month's resolution, says whether the card is Pro or Con, and says why.
Cite in your format
Every planAuthor, quals, date, title, publication, URL, date accessed. Your initials go on the end.
Says what the card can't do
Every planIf the article doesn't support the argument, it tells you instead of stretching the tag.
Catches cards you already have
Every planA duplicate gets linked to the one in your database rather than added twice.
Import your Verbatim files
Every planHeadings become pockets, hats, blocks and tags. Underlining, bold and highlighting come through untouched.
In the round
232 counted · 18 on VarsityHow to win your judge
2 · 5 · 10Paste a judge's paradigm and get lay, flay or tech, what to do and what to avoid with the judge's own words quoted, and where they stand on speed, theory, evidence and weighing. A paradigm someone already read comes back at once, free.
Flow for free
Every planEvery account can flow its rounds in plain boxes, like a doc on the site, and keep ten of them, twenty on JV. The tools below are Varsity's.
A demo round that plays itself
Every planA whole round filling in on the flow, fast, with every tool used when you'd use it. Anyone can watch it.
One sheet, every speech
Every planPro case, Con case, both rebuttals, both summaries, both final focuses, in the order they happen. Keeps ten rounds on Novice, twenty on JV, thirty on Varsity.
Cards on the flow
VarsityA card shows up in the box as its tagline. Hover it and the card opens, cite and the words you read out.
Flow by voice
VarsityIt listens in the room, or straight to the tab your online round is in, and writes the transcript as they speak. Your browser's speech service does the listening; Flowstate never gets the audio.
Knows debate words
VarsityListen writes down exactly what it hears, fast. When it flows that into your boxes, the AI knows this round's words, so "territorium" comes back as moratorium.
Turns a speech into a flow
VarsityThe transcript comes back abbreviated and in order, with each contention's parts nested under it.
Answers as you flow
VarsityAs you flow their speech, your next one is written around it. Lines that build on each other count as one argument: "They say X and Y, but", answered once, with the card behind it.
Your next speech, sized to the clock
VarsityIt never runs past the speech's time at your lay or tech speed. If it's long, the weakest answers go first, and every argument they made keeps at least one answer.
Each card read once
VarsityA card is read once per speech. After that it's "refer back to our Smith card", and summary and final focus name cards instead of reading them again.
Attack a card
VarsitySearch their card or paste it. It reads the card against its whole article and gives you two or three lines to say, with the quote that proves it, in seconds.
Second rebuttal, split properly
VarsityTwo minutes on their case and two minutes defending yours, because that's what second rebuttal has to do.
Shows what they dropped
VarsityArguments with nothing answering them later in the round get listed under the speech that made them.
Speech timers
VarsityEvery PF speech and prep time, loaded and counting the one you picked.
Blocks with a slash
VarsityType / in any box and pick a block by name. It drops in with its cards, from The Field or from frontlines you wrote.
Answer their C1
VarsityType /C1 and your best cards go under their C1 right away. Then answers to what their C1 says land under them. /C2 does their C2.
Find a card, drag it in
VarsityHighlight words on the flow and cards for them show up at once. Drag one onto the line it answers.
A card doc for the other team
VarsityEvery card you read, in the order you read it, ready for Word. Share one link and each new card reaches the other team within seconds. They don't need an account.
Speech doc
VarsityYour speech the way you'll give it, with each card in full where you read it.
A roadmap you can't lose
VarsityNumber the arguments you're going for. The one you're on stays lit, and ] moves you to the next.
Flow with your partner
VarsityBoth of you write in the same round at the same time. If you both write in one box, both sets of lines are kept. Two Varsity accounts flow every round together; with one you get three rounds together, every tool included.
Ask mid-round
3 · 10 · 20In-round mode gets straight to the answer and names the card by its cite.
Writing the speech
111 counted · 1 from JV · 6 on VarsityBuild the case from your cards
Every planName a contention, add cards, put them in reading order. It compiles the case. It doesn't write it for you. Novice keeps one case, JV five, Varsity ten.
Both sides in one file
Every planA Pro case and a Con case live in the same file. Each keeps its own contentions and its own length.
Length as you go
Every planSpoken words and reading time at your pace, per contention and for the whole case, against what a case should run.
Start from what teams run
JVOpen a contention off the caselist and pull from the cards teams read under it.
Frontlines
VarsityOne block per response they made, with the move named. Turn, no link, non-unique. Strongest first.
The fifteen-second version
VarsityEvery frontline ends with what to say when you're out of prep and only have time for two points.
Extensions
VarsityRe-establish the argument by cite, rebuild warrant to impact, answer their answers, weigh it, and end on one line.
Pull it off your flow
VarsityTake what they said straight from a saved flow, including the round you're sitting in, instead of typing it again.
By card, by paste, or by name
VarsityWork from a card in your database, a card you pasted in, or just its name. It says what it couldn't check without the text.
Never invents evidence
VarsityEvery citation points at a card that exists. Where nothing supports a line it says so and names what to go cut.
Ask your own evidence
3 · 10 · 20Questions answered out of your card database, citing what they used.
Prog
44 on VarsityFrameworks, theory and Ks
VarsityCost-benefit, extinction first, structural violence, disclosure, paraphrasing, cap, security, settler colonialism and more, each short enough to read next to a case.
The answers to each one
VarsityEvery shell comes with the answers to it, plus the general answers to any theory shell, K or framework.
Cards behind it
VarsityReal caselist cards for each argument, one click from the shell.
Answer their prog as they ran it
VarsityType /a2 and its name, like /a2 cap k. It finds where they ran it on your flow and answers what they said.
Speaking
51 on VarsityCrossfire practice
VarsityThree minutes against an AI playing the other team, with the real cards from both cases. Type or talk. Then a review: where you gave something away and what to say instead, the questions you dodged, and what they admitted. Anyone can read a sample.
Only the words you say
Every planPaste cards, get back the highlighted text in reading order. Cards with no highlighting fall back to the underlining.
Taglines kept as headings
Every planBold tags, half-bold tags and bold cite lines all come through, because you read those out too.
Word count and speaking time
Every planTimed at your own words per minute, so a block's length is a number instead of a guess.
Word or Google Docs
Every planBoth paste formats are understood, including Word's own highlighting markup.
Your account
7Google or an email link
Every planSign in either way. You never have to make up a password.
Invite a teammate
Every planSend your link. When they sign up, you both get a week of Varsity and start out as friends. Up to four free weeks a year.
Friends
Every planAdd teammates by @handle and send each other cards, blocks and cases. Everyone keeps their own copy.
Everything saved
Every planCases, cut cards, blocks, flows and chats are saved to your account, so they're on any device you sign in on.
Ten designs
Every planPick the look in Settings: its own colors, gradients and heading font. Point at one to see a preview before you switch.
Preferences that stick
Every planFont, tag and body size, highlight color, speaking speed, default side and topic, your initials, light or dark.
Your work is yours
Every planPrivate unless you say otherwise. Nothing you upload or cut is shown to anyone else.
Novice does a lot for free. The rest is a step up.
You can search the caselist, cut a few cards and time your speeches without paying. JV is for all the evidence, Varsity for having the round prepped for you.