Most of you know well that one of my few hobbies is judging high school speech and debate tournaments. The judge observes a group of presentations or a debate, evaluates the performances, assigns the rankings, and adds a few helpful comments. There are several rounds of this for each...
This Friday and Saturday, I will be judging the Midwest Region Great Communicators Debate tournament. It's a unique debate format, which I'm very excited about.
There are several kinds of debate styles that are common in high school tournaments: Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, and Public...