Gentlemen,
I propose Lincoln-Douglas style debate format for Friday, the rules of which are embedded below. Each side will get 16 minutes to speak. We can adjust the time for the purposes of the show length if need be. Since it is Eric's show and he issued the challenge, I suggest that he start the debate with the simple affirmative proposal that THE JESUIT CONTROLLED VATICAN IS BEHIND THE NEW WORLD ORDER. Also the rules of courtesy, profanity, and personal attack as outline by Eric should be adhered to, subject to immediately cessation of the debate if violated by either party. Please let me know what you think. I will have an online poll set up on my website for listeners to log onto and cast a vote to decide who won the debate afterwards. Eric, please forward this to Noel. I await your feedback.
John Byk
LD debate follows the basic time schedule 6-3-7-3-4-6-3, commonly remembered as a jingle or phone number. Each debater gets 13 minutes of speaking time, and rounds take approximately 45 minutes. Each debater receives 3-5 minutes of preparation time (prep time) to use between speeches however they like. While the amount of allowed prep time is at the tournament's discretion, the NFL advocated three minutes until midway through the 2006-2007 season, when 4 minutes became official and was adopted by most, but not all, local tournaments. Some tournaments, most notably the TOC, choose to give debaters 5 minutes. Some tournaments also allow the use of flex prep, which melds the cross-examination time and prep time together to create a 6-8 minute block that can be used for questions and/or prep.
Time (minutes) Abbreviation Speech Description
6 AC Affirmative Constructive The Affirmative reads a pre-written case
3 CX Cross Examination The Negative asks the Affirmative questions
7 NC (1NR) Negative Constructive (and first negative Rebuttal) The Negative (almost always) reads a pre-written case and (almost always) moves on to address the Affirmative's case.
3 CX Cross Examination The Affirmative asks the Negative questions
4 1AR First Affirmative Rebuttal The Affirmative addresses both their opponent's arguments and their own
6 NR (2NR) The Negative Rebuttal The Negative covers everything said in the round and gives the judge reasons to vote for them
3 2AR The Second Affirmative Rebuttal The Affirmative may either summarize the round or cover everything, but they always give reasons to vote for them




