Debate formats

# of people in the debate: 2

# of people in a team: 1

# of teams in the debate: 2

Duration of the speeches: The times are different from speech to speech, and are marked at the speeches

Questions format: Cross examination

This debate format derives directly from the US Presidential debates. It is a bit different, especially from the timing of the speeches. I have no information if it is being used for tournaments anywhere in the world, but it is used for training.

Format:

1st Affirmative constructive - 7 minutes

Cross examination - negative asks affirmative - 3 minutes

1st Negative constructive - 8 minutes

Cross examination - affirmative asks negative - 3 minutes

 Now follow the so called rebuttal speeches. The debaters should not present new arguments, but are allowed to present new evidence.

1st Affirmative rebuttal - 4 minutes 

1st Negative rebuttal - 7 minutes

2nd Affirmative rebuttal - 4 minutes 

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# of people in the debate: 4

# of people in a team: 2

# of teams in the debate: 2

Duration of the speeches: 7 minutes constructive speech and 3-4 minutes closing speech.

Questions format: Points of information

Short description: This debate format can be described as a half of the British parliamentary debate, because the roles of the speakers are the same as on the first table of BP. Extra, the first speaker of each team has a shorter speech, similar to a whip speech in BP.

Used in: No idea, who debates this, we are using it for practice and there are one or two debate tournaments using it (Katowice open 2007 used it).

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