LD Debate
Public Forum Debate
Debate Slang
Misc.
Argument Structure
100

LD Debate is unique in featuring a clash between these.

What is Framework AKA Value and Value Criterion?

100

How sides and speaking position are determined in a PF round.

What is a coinflip?

100

Another name for notes.

What is the "flow?"
100

What the acronym HUDL stands for.

What is Houston Urban Debate League?
100

3 parts of a contention.

What is Claim, Warrant, Impact?

200

The longest speech in LD Debate.

What is the 1NC?

200

Time where all four debaters can speak.

What is Grand-Crossfire?

200

When you prove that your opponents impact happens in both worlds.

What is Non-Unique?

200

What you ask the judge for before round.

What are paradigms?

200

Two conditions for a counterplan.

What is mutual exclusivity and net benefit?

300

Known as hardest LD speech due to minimal time and burden to respond.

What is the 1AR?

300
Unrecognized autonomous region in the Horn of Africa.

What is Somalialand?

300

Responses to another team's blocks on your case.

What are frontlines?

300

Debate event with partners where teams introduce their own plans.

What is Policy?

300

Four parts of a theory shell.

What is interpretation, violation, standards, and voters?

400

Name one critique of the Categorical Imperative.

Up for interpretation.

400

Standard framework used in Public Forum rounds.

What is utilitarianism?

400

When you compare weighing mechanisms.

What is meta-weighing?

400

Website where debate events are run.

What is Tabroom?

400

Type of permutation where you do less than the aff plan.

What is a severance perm?

500

The philosopher who advocates for the creation of societal norms behind a 'Veil of Ignorance.'

Who is John Rawls?

500

Number of convictions in the ICC's history.

What is 10?

500
Type of counter-plan that can be kicked only under certain circumstances.

What is a dispositional counter-plan?

500

Person who recognizes others to speak in Congress.

Who is the Presiding Officer?

500
Argument where you question one of the underlying assumptions in your opponent's arguments or the resolution itself, while offering an alternative.

What is a Kritik?

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