Debate Forum Essentials: Basics, Resolutions, Teams
Explore the fundamentals of public forum debates including basics, resolutions, team structure, and speech descriptions. Understand the debate format, speaking order, and roles of constructive, rebuttal, summary, and final focus speeches. Get insights into popular debate topics, team dynamics, and the overall structure of a public forum debate.
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Introduction to Public Forum
Today we will talk about: 1. Basics of Public Forum 2. Resolutions 3. Teams and Speaking Order 4. Basic Descriptions of Speeches
Basics of Public Forum Most popular debate in Philadelphia One of three main debates - Lincoln Douglas, Policy, Public Forum Shortest debate - 45 minutes Partner debate (teams of 2) Layman s Debate - meant to be easily understood by anyone watching Can be compared to the Presidential debates
Resolutions New topic each month https://www.speechanddebate.org/topics/ Usually politically or culturally relevant Debaters can vote online Debaters will prepare a case for each side of the topic Examples of past resolutions: Resolved: On balance, charter schools are beneficial to the quality of education in the United States. Resolved: The European Union should join the Belt and Road Initiative. Resolved: The United States should end its arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
Teams and Speaking Order Each team will have two debaters - one will be first speaker and the other will be second speaker The two speakers will take turns giving speeches Speaking order can be determined however the debaters want There will also be a speaking order for the teams within each round A coin flip is traditionally done at the beginning of the round The winning team can choose if they want to pick the side they debate on or which order they speak in
Debate Structure Begins with coin flip to determine pro/con sides and first speaker Each team has 3 minutes of prep time to be used between speeches
Basic Descriptions of Speeches Constructives - the first speaker from each team presents their case Rebuttal - the second speaker from each team will attack their opponent s case Summary - the first speaker from each team will summarize the round into a few key points that they want the judge to focus on Final Focus - the second speaker from each team will weigh the most important points in the round and tell the judge why they ve won
