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  2. Inter-collegiate policy debate - Wikipedia

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    Inter-collegiate policy debate has been historically overseen by the National Debate Tournament (NDT), the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), and, especially in the mid-Atlantic region, the American Debate Association (ADA). Since 1996-97 these organizations have shared a common topic, and have become largely unified.

  3. Policy debate - Wikipedia

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    At the college level, a number of topics are proposed and interested parties write "topic papers" discussing the pros and cons of that individual topic. Each school then gets one vote on the topic. The single topic area voted on then has a number of proposed topic wordings, one is chosen, and it is debated by affiliated students nationally for ...

  4. Cross Examination Debate Association - Wikipedia

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    The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) (/ ˈ s iː d ə / SEE-də) is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States.Throughout the school year, CEDA sanctions over 60 tournaments throughout the nation, including an annual National Championship Tournament that brings together over 175 individual debate teams from across the nation to compete on the basis of ...

  5. Policy debate competitions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Colleges and university with policy debate programs at the collegiate level also often host tournaments for this circuit. Another elite form is the TOC ( Tournament of Champions ), in which qualification is required by winning bids from at least two large-scale, participating tournaments by advancing to a certain stage depending on the size of ...

  6. Glossary of policy debate terms - Wikipedia

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    In policy debate, a resolution or topic is a normative statement which the affirmative team affirms and the negative team negates. Resolutions are selected annually by affiliated schools. At the college level, a number of topics are proposed and interested parties write 'topic papers' discussing the pros and cons of that individual topic.

  7. National Debate Tournament - Wikipedia

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    The National Debate Tournament currently debates the topic selected by the Cross Examination Debate Association, but used to debate its own, separate, topic. Wake Forest University maintains a list of earlier resolutions used at the National Debate Tournament.

  8. Competitive debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln-Douglas topics change every two months and are typically statements of value that require the sides to discuss the merits of different philosophical schools of thought. [41] [44] Public forum debate is a 2v2 style of debate with topics that change every two months in the fall and every month in the spring. [45]

  9. Structure of policy debate - Wikipedia

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    In addition to speeches, policy debates may allow for a certain amount of preparation time, or "prep time", during a debate round. NSDA rules call for five minutes of total prep time that can be used, although in practice high school debate tournaments often give eight minutes of prep time. College debates typically have 10 minutes of ...