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