Lincoln Douglas/Public Forum Info

Lincoln Douglas and Public Forum Debate

            • Rounds I and II will be pre-set.  Rounds III and IV will be

            power-matched.

            • We will use the March-April NFL resolution for Lincoln-Douglas

debate. 

• We will use the March NFL resolution for Public Forum Debate.

            • The entry fee is $5.00 per debater.  ($10 for a Public Forum team)

            • We will count your LD and PFD entries in our Saturday sweepstakes entries

            (win = 4 sweeps points; loss = 2 sweeps points; best 3 rounds).

            Medals will be awarded to the top six places.

            • Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum debaters may not participate in

Student Congress.  (LD debaters may not enter Public Forum.)

• We reserve the right to collapse novice LD into open LD if there are too few

entries.

            Schedule:         Registration                                          3:00 - 3:30

                                    Round I                                               3:45

                                    Round II                                              4:45

                                    Round III                                             6:00

                                    Round IV                                             7:15

                        Awards will follow Round IV