There's a few ways to download Kankee Briefs - all are free. If you've paid for a Kankee Brief, that website wasn't associated with Kankee Briefs. Kankee Briefs is, and always will be, completely free.

a) Patreon - make a free Patreon account and go the Kankee Briefs Patreon page (linked here). Find the relevant post for the new topic and download the PDF and/or Word documents.

b) Open Source Google Drive - if you don't desire making a Patreon account, all current and archived Kankee Brief files are freely available at the Kankee Brief Open Source folder (linked here). This includes every Kankee Brief ever released, so make sure to open the folder of the current year.

c) Email List - every new Kankee Brief can be sent directly to your email inbox upon release  if you sign up for our email list via our form (linked here), If later you wish to unsubscribe from our email list, please fill out our opt-out form (linked here).

For each topic, Kankee Briefs releases our main file,  the brief, and the AT File, our block file.

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The NSDA topic schedule has new LD resolutions released every two months (see the bottom of the topic page linked here). Generally, we release briefs two weeks after the topic announcement, so overall briefs are released on the 15th of the month.

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Unlike other organizations, we like scout what arguments debaters have read during debates on the topic from the Opencaselist Wiki, as opposed to imperfectly predicting them in advance. Therefore we do not release our blocks for the topic with our main brief, and instead release them one week after debates start on the 7th.

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For example, for the Nov-Dec topic, the resolution is released on October 1st, so you can expect a new brief to be released on October 15th and for the AT File to be released on November 7th. Alternatively, if do don't wish to track the release schedule, sign up for our email list (linked here),

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For NSDA/NSDA Nationals, we have an altered schedule where the AT File is released on the 25th (not the 7th of the following month). Given that these are one-off tournaments with minimal Wiki disclosure requirements, waiting till the 7th is largely counter-productive.

Kankee Briefs is entirely ran by volunteers staff for everything from card cutting and topic analyses, to back-end work like website support and social media. If you want to contribute to Kankee Briefs and give back to the debate community, please fill out our volunteer form (linked here).