Speed Debating?

Feature about policy debating produced by Peter Rosen, the winner of the 2008 NPPA Award for Reporting and former KUTV reporter. Hire him. (Photographed by Shirstie Sheets. Edited by Peter Rosen.)

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• Debate
• Speed
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[matthewrocks711]

I think it's policy debate. I have LD and nobody talks this fast because we usually have about 20 minutes of speaking time.

[zepdude13]

legislative debate sucks! Policy all the way yo!

[TheNinjaFilipino]

I remember last year, when I came into debate class my coach said there were three events: PF, LD, and CX. I saw this and the next day, I jokingly said that I wanted to do Policy (thinking that my school didn't offer this) he said: "so you want to do CX?" I said no right away, this scared me. Ironically, now I do Policy and like it so much better than when I did PF last year.

[Volkner01]

i hate that LD is becoming progressive!

[JadeDragon777]

@zepdude13 LD stands for Lincoln Douglas, not legislative debate...

[FilterLuvr]

r. It expands eucation because without spreading, my partner's 1AC would probably be 10 pages long, but with spreading and the ability of others to understanding spreading, we have created a 1AC that is nearly flawless and covers a lot of areas. Also as a 2AC spreading is necessary if the toher team spreads and throws 8-10 off case at you or you will not answer it all. even 2 kritiks can require spreading if you have a multitude of points to cover and refute. so shut up everyone it doesnt matter

[FilterLuvr]

It'd be really cool if people like stopped arguing about what type of debate is better. It's a stupid argument. The reason there are different types of debate is because different people excel at different things so just because you're better at one type of debate doesn't make it any better than others it just means that you are better at that kind of debate. As for spreading, I personally am a policy debater and i think spreading is necessary, it's a good skill and teches you how to think faste

[juke521]

the girl in this video is HOT

[TheAxeMan12321]

@zepdude13 no spreading is retarted..

[PookySC]

@matthewrocks711 What are you talking about we have a 6minute constructive and 7 minutes (4 and 3) of rebuttals... whether or not people spread in LD is based on how progressive your state is debate wise.

This boy is a terrible spreader too though. He is slow, he breathes too much and the slurring of words shows that he isn't practicing enough.

[johndoe8479]

@matthewrocks711 of course it is lol

[available940]

its lincoln douglas debate not legislative debate