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  2. Competitive debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A professor at Ripon College, Jacob was inspired by a letter he received asking if a debate league for high school students existed. Upon learning that there was no nationwide league, Jacob established the NFL on March 28, 1925, and within a year the league had 100 member schools around the country.

  3. Public forum debate - Wikipedia

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    It is primarily competed by middle and high school students, but college teams exist as well. Invented in the US, public forum is one of the most prominent American debate events, alongside Policy debate and Lincoln-Douglas debate; it is also practiced in China and India, and has been recently introduced to Romania.

  4. Baltimore Urban Debate League - Wikipedia

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    Since 2006, it has created a middle school debate camp of the same name which has a very similar format to the high school camp. B'More Debate was initially offered only to students in BUDL, but throughout the years has expanded to other students around the country. The camp is held during the summer months and lasts two weeks. The middle ...

  5. National Speech and Debate Association - Wikipedia

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    The National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) is the largest interscholastic speech and debate organization serving middle school and high school students in the United States. [1] It was formed as the National Forensic League in 1925 by Bruno Ernst Jacob .

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  7. Structure of policy debate - Wikipedia

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    In addition to speeches, policy debates may allow for a certain amount of preparation time, or "prep time", during a debate round. NSDA rules call for five minutes of total prep time that can be used, although in practice high school debate tournaments often give eight minutes of prep time. College debates typically have 10 minutes of ...

  8. Policy debate - Wikipedia

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    Urban debate leagues give students in urban school districts an opportunity to participate in policy debate. There are currently urban debate leagues in 24 of the largest cities in the United States. In total, more than 500 high schools participate in the league and more than 40,000 students have competed in urban debate. [11]

  9. Is there already a College Football Playoff controversy ...

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    The debate over the CFP’s final first-round bye is an extension of a long-running tussle between the power leagues and those from the lower-resourced level of the Football Bowl Subdivision. The ...