Climb the Mountain

Speech & Debate Foundation

Climb the Mountain provides support for coaches, students, and judges to build a bigger and even better speech and debate community.

Judging Public Forum Debate

Step 2: What kinds of comments can I make to help the debaters?

· Give ideas for drills:

“You need rebuttal drills—practicing responding to arguments”

· Give ideas for arguments/strategies:

“You should try to argue that the harms are truly bad, not just that it isn’t so important.”

“Your points about the harms of drug testing were good but you also need to show why those arguments are important to winning the debate.”

· Give ideas for research.

“You should research arguments showing drug testing is not that intrusive of privacy.”

· Give ideas for speaking more effectively.

“You should speak more clearly; it was hard to understand you.”

“You should speak less loudly.”

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