A SHORT GUIDE TO COMPETITIVE DEBATE FORMATS
A SHORT GUIDE TO COMPETITIVE DEBATE FORMATSAlfred C. SniderEdwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics, University of VermontJune 2011There are a lot of different competitive debating formats in the world. This can beconfusing as one encounters an alphabet soup of names. I hope that this veryshort introduction can assist you in locating the format that is relevant to you.Find the right format, and then go to the webpage at Debate Central to find theinformation you need – http://debate.uvm.edu/learndebate.htmlFirst, select the level at which you hope to compete.University level competition: WUDC/BP World Universities Debating Championship NPDA/APDA American Parliamentary Debate, USA only Policy Debate CEDA, NDT, USA only Asians Format AUDC, NEAO, Asia only Australs Australasian format, Australasian only CUSID Canada only NFA Lincoln Douglas, USA onlyHigh school level competition: WSDC World Schools Debating Championship Karl Popper Debate IDEA Policy Debate, USA only Lincoln-Douglas Debate, USA only Public Forum Debate, USA onlySecond, see which format you prefer, or find out what format your schoolparticipates in. A short description of each format is below.
UNIVERSITY LEVEL COMPETITION:WUDC/BP Topics: New topic for each debate. Teams: Teams of 2, 4 teams in one debate, 2 proposition, 2 opposition,judges rank teams 1-4. Length: 60 minutes Preparation: 15 minutes before the debate, no electronic access, only talkto partner. Interaction: Points of information from one side to the other. Content: No quoted material, usually. Very few procedural or definitionalarguments. Style: Faster than normal conversation, but accessible to all people. Events: Worlds, Euros, Asians, Pan Africans, US, etc.NPDA/APDA Topics: New topic for each debate. Topic more binding for NPDA thanAPDA. Teams: Teams of 2, 2 teams, proposition and opposition. Length: 45 minutes Preparation: 20-30 minutes open preparation. Interaction: Points of information. Content: No quoted material. Style: Some jargon, some procedural arguments, Events: NPDA tournaments, NPTE, APDA tournaments.POLICY DEBATE Topics: One topic for entire academic year. Teams: Teams of 2, 2 teams, affirmative and negative. Length: 2-2.5 hours. Preparation: Intense preparation during the entire year, extensiveresearch. Ten minutes preparation time to be used by each team duringthe debate. Interaction: Cross examination Content: Lots of quoted material, lots of jargon, many proceduralarguments, but very open to innovation if you can defend it. Style: Usually very rapid speaking. Events: NDT, CEDA tournaments.ASIAN Topics: Three topics before each debate, teams determine which todebate. Teams: Teams of 3, 2 teams, government and opposition. Length: About one hour. Preparation: 30 minutes.
Interaction: Points of information.Content: No quoted material, usually.Style: A little faster than conversational, but understandable by all.Events: UADCAUSTRALS Topics: Three topics before each debate, teams determine which todebate. Teams: Teams of 3, 2 teams, proposition and opposition. Length: About one hour. Preparation: 30 minutes. Interaction: Points of information. Content: No quoted material, usually. Style: A little faster than conversational, but understandable by all. Events: Australian tournaments, Australasians.CUSID Topics: 30 minutes before the debate, but topic is very loosely interpreted. Teams: Teams of 2, 2 teams, government and opposition Length: Less than 60 minutes Preparation: Most preparation done before the tournament. Interaction: Points of information. Content: No quoted material, usually. Style: A little faster than conversation, but understandable by all. Events: CUSID tournaments.NFA LD Topics: One topic for the entire academic year. Mostly topics about policyissues. Teams: Teams of 1, two teams, affirmative and negative. Length: About 45 minutes. Preparation: Intense preparation and research during the year. Interaction: Cross examination. Content: Quoted material, prepared arguments. Style: Appeals to an audience of average intelligent citizens. Events: NFA tournaments.High school level competition:WSDC World Schools Debating Championship Topics: Mix of prepared and extemporaneous topics. Teams: Teams of 3, two teams, affirmative/proposition andnegative/opposition Length: One hour
Preparation: Significant pre-tournament preparation for prepared motions,one hour preparation for extemporaneous motions with no outside helpexcept for almanac and dictionary.Interaction: Points of information.Content: No quoted material, usually.Style: Faster than normal conversation, but understandable by all.Events: World Schools Debating Championship, Asian Schools DebatingChampionship, various tournaments.Karl Popper Debate IDEA Topics: Announced, usually one month in advance. Teams: Teams of 3, two teams, affirmative and negative. Length: 45 minutes Preparation: Significant preparation before the debate. Interaction: Cross examination. Content: Quoted material allowed, but must be able tom documentsources. Style: Accessible to all intelligent citizens. Events: IDEA Youth Forum, IDEA affiliated tournaments.Policy Debate, USA only Topics: On topic for the entire academic year, concerns question ofgovernment policy. Teams: Teams of 2, two teams, affirmative and negative Length: 90 minutes. Preparation: Significant preparation and research during the year. Eightminutes preparation time for each team to be used during the debate. Interaction: Cross examination. Content: Substantial quoted material, procedural arguments, considerablejargon. Style: Very fast delivery. Events: NFL tournaments, Tournament of Champions, NDCAchampionships.Lincoln-Douglas Debate, USA only Topics: Value topics announced in advanced. Teams: Teams of 1, two teams, affirmative and negative. Length: 35 minutes. Preparation: Topics announced in advance. Three minutes preparationtime for each side during the debate. Interaction: Cross examination. Content: Very little quoted material. Style: Accessible to all intelligent citizens. Events: NFL, ToC, NDCA.Public Forum Debate, USA only
Topics: Announced in advance. Topics of current popular interest.Teams: Teams of 2, two teams, pro and con, sides determined by coin flipat beginning, loser of flip can decide to speak first or second.Length: 35 minutes.Preparation: Significant preparation before the debate, two minutes ofpreparation time for each team to use during the debate.Interaction: Crossfire, debaters take turns asking questions.Content: Some quoted material but debate should not be driven by it.Style: Accessible to all citizens.Events: NFL tournaments, ToC, NDCA.For more information please go to Debate Central athttp://debate.uvm.edu/learndebate.html and click on resources for the format youare interested in.Formats are fluid and changing, thus some details given here may be different fordifferent tournaments and organizations.This is not a comprehensive survey, as many new debate formats are constantlybeing born. These, however, are the most common debate formats.HAPPY DEBATING!
Karl Popper Debate IDEA Policy Debate, USA only Lincoln-Douglas Debate, USA only Public Forum Debate, USA only Second, see which format you prefer, or find out what format your school participates in. A short description of each format is below.File Size: 1MB
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