Public Forum Debate

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Across
  1. 2. Both of these debaters have the primary burden of refuting the other team’s arguments by analyzing and explaining flaws in the opponent’s position.
  2. 6. Questioning periods give debate interactivity and a change to build clash.
  3. 11. The quantity of arguments is less important than the quality of arguments,
  4. 13. A team must develop both a pro and con case, persuasively supported by evidence and reasoning.
  5. 14. This speech constructs arguments showing disadvantages
  6. 15. Seated, all debaters interact with one another.
Down
  1. 1. Effective delivery is critical to impact the arguments for a citizen judge.
  2. 3. If the team feels that the opponent’s case is based on a faulty or unfair interpretation of the resolution,
  3. 4. The more a debater knows about a topic,
  4. 5. This speech constructs arguments advocating the resolution’s worthiness.
  5. 7. These are complicated speeches because each debater has to find a way to explain issues in the light of all that has happened so far
  6. 8. The round starts with a
  7. 9. Each team has two minutes of prep time.
  8. 10. This frames, with clarity, why your team has won the debate.
  9. 12. are worded as resolutions, meaning they advocate solving a problem by establishing a position.