• Inter-collegiate policy debate is a form of speech competition involving two teams of two debaters from different colleges or universities based on a resolution...
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  • Policy debate is an American form of debate competition in which teams of two usually advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy...
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  • The National Debate Tournament is one of the national championships for collegiate policy debate in the United States. The tournament is sponsored by...
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  • In all forms of policy debate, the order of speeches is as follows: 1. AFF constructive 1 (1AC) a. Cross-examination (by NEG speaker 2) 2. NEG constructive...
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  • Topicality is a resolution issue in policy debate which pertains to whether or not the plan affirms the resolution as worded. To contest the topicality...
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  • This is a glossary of policy debate terms. In policy debate (also called cross-examination debate in some circuits, namely the University Interscholastic...
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  • In policy debate, Lincoln-Douglas debate, and public forum debate, the flow (flowing in verb form) is the name given to a specialized form of shorthand...
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  • In a policy debate competition, evidence (sometimes referred to as "cards") consists mainly of two parts. The citation contains all relevant reference...
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  • "pure" policy debate, which occurs infrequently in intercollegiate policy debate tournaments but quite often in professorial or academic debate occasions...
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  • Maryland area. The main focus of the organization is to teach students policy debate. Currently the league serves approximately 51 schools in Baltimore,...
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  • An urban debate league (UDL) is a group of high school policy debate teams from urban high schools in the United States. UDLs are generally located in...
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    policy or action conforms to a specific value. National Forensic Association Lincoln-Douglas debate (NFA-LD), the collegiate Lincoln-Douglas debate,...
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  • because the same teams generally qualify to both tournaments. Inter-Collegiate policy debate has a scheduled list of tournaments through the season at both...
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  • tried to suppress. It operated from 2017 to 2019. Liberty's Inter-Collegiate policy debate program ranked first overall (i.e., combining the results at...
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  • Counterplan (category Policy debate)
    is a component of debate theory commonly expounded in the activity of parliamentary and policy debate. While some schools of debate theory require the...
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  • In the formal speech competition genre known as policy debate, a widely accepted doctrine or "debate theory" divides the argument elements of supporting...
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  • Disadvantage (category Policy debate)
    In policy debate, a disadvantage (here abbreviated as DA) is an argument that a team brings up against a policy action that is being considered. A disadvantage...
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  • Impact calculus (category Policy debate)
    In policy and public forum debates, impact calculus, also known as weighing impacts, is a type of argumentation which seeks to compare the impacts presented...
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  • Louisville's policy debate team (the University of Louisville Debate Society or ULDS) to increase meaningful minority participation in debate, which started...
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  • IMPACT Coalition (category Urban debate leagues)
    supporting services. The organisation founded in 1991 to facilitate policy debate competitions among high schools in the New York metropolitan area. It...
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  • In a broadcast heard around the world, the President voiced the American policy of mutual alliance and friendship with Canada. During World War II, 2,917...
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    fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and as of January 2024, the highest ranked in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association...
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    sport in the country into the late-1800s, many of the initial debates about collegiate athletic eligibility and purpose were settled through organizations...
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    college athletics encompasses amateur sports played by non-professional, collegiate and university-level student athletes in competitive sports and games...
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    Cranmer Hall. The Doxbridge Tournament is the name of an unofficial inter-collegiate sports competition, held annually in Dublin. This was founded in 1998...
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    celebration of the International Youth Day 2019. 2018 Philippine Inter-Collegiate Debating Championship (aired June 21, 2018) – Marked the 100th episode...
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  • (UCCF, UK national organisation) Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU) Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU) Other UK national organisations...
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  • Dartmouth Forensic Union (DFU) is the policy debate team of Dartmouth College. Considered one of the strongest debate teams in the country,[by whom?] the...
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  • history at Vanderbilt University and Warren worked as campus staff for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) at Vanderbilt. As a staff member for...
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  • oldest collegiate coeducational debate team in the United States. In February 1920, the debate team defeated Harvard College during the national debate tournament...
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