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Public forum debate is a form of competitive debate where debaters use their evidence and impacts to outweigh the benefits and harms of the opposing side. The topics for public forum have to do with current-day events relating to public policy. Debaters work in pairs of two, and speakers alternate for every speech.
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 ...
There are a wide variety of competitive debate formats, including the 2v2 Public forum debate, the 1v1 Lincoln–Douglas format, and the 2v2v2v2 British Parliamentary. Regardless of format, most debate rounds use a set topic and have two sides, with one team supporting the topic and the other team opposing the topic.
The 90-minute debate will be hosted by ABC News in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center at 9 p.m. ET, and will closely mirror the format used by CNN in the June debate between Trump and ...
The confirmation of the debate's format comes one day after both campaigns agreed that the event would be held at the Mauthe Center, housed within the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's campus ...
In policy debate, preparation time (prep time) is the amount of time given to each team to prepare for their speeches. Prep time may be taken at any time in any interval. Another form of prep time is known as alternate-use time. Alternate use time replaces preparation time and cross-examination. Alternate use time can be used for cross ...
She proposed that there should be one debate in June, "after Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is likely to be over and after President Biden returns from meeting with world leaders at the ...
This page was the first one I edited on Wikipedia and my edits were removed, though they consisted only of the format (time allotments) of public forum debate. As someone who has done PFD, "short (2-4 minute) speeches that are interspersed with 3 minute "crossfire" sections" does not adequately describe public forum.