Sundance Open Invitational Online
2022 — NSDA Campus, UT/US
PRO/CON Challenge
Event Description:
NOTE: This is an Asynchronous Event, you will not see students in person or go to a room. You will see on your ballot the names of the students with a camera icon...click on that icon and view their speech and evaluate it on the ballot. After viewing all of them, you will make your decision and submit your ballot. Please do so as if this was a real round in real time.
Pro/Con challenge allows debate students to read/deliver their cases and get feedback.
Each student will deliver their affirmative case (up to 6 min), and then they will deliver their Negative case/or deliver a rebutall/refutation (up to 4 min) to their affirmative case they just read.
Their Case may be on any of the current LD/PF/CX/BQ/Congress Topics.
As a judge you are looking for
Organization of argument
Use of relevent evidence to support claims
Logical analysis and reasoning to explain and connect evidence to claims
Clear argumentation to construct/defend each side of the argument
Delivery, articulation, inflection, body language, etc.
Here is a sample ballot for your reference
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_6J7uPN8pygij1OSB_3pDkUsXDYDojkJ/view?usp=sharing