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[Re: 9-3-6 no! 8-3-6 yes!]

Ok,
Please excuse me (again) for my utter bureacratic ignorance, but are
these debates (here) just to get *some* tournament sponsors to adopt, er
experiment with, 8-3-6 or 9-3-6 (relative/confined autocracy), so that
debaters, coaches, and judges can give feedback on the differences, or
must there be an official (controlled chaos/democracy) CEDA vote, by
region, to give the ok, or is there an all-out coup attempt? In other
words, to *progress* from here, and from last season's equivalent
debate, what can or must be done?

BTW just yanking you on that last post, Bear.
-Randy

Bob Lechtreck wrote:

> At 04:32 PM 8/1/97 -0400, MWBRYANT@aol.com wrote:
>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> Frank lists a number of reasons why he believes that an extra minute
> of
> constructive time wouldn't improve debate. My initial question is why
> does
> virtually everyone in NDT agree that the switch to 9-3-6 actually
> improved
> the quality of debate in each of the areas he listed?
> >>>>>>>>>>
>
> Most of those that I have talked with usually begin the conversation
> saying
> they like the format better because of the extra minute in rebuttals.
> As
> far as I know, the 8-3-6 time has never really been experimented with,
> so
> it may be JUST the 6 that the NDT people liked so much.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> Why does virtually every debater that's done a significant amount of
> both
> 8-3-5 and 9-3-6 seem to favor the latter?
> >>>>>>>>>>
>
> Maybe because of the 6..........
>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> If they can agree to debate our topics, why can't we at least move a
> little
> bit on standardizing format?
> >>>>>>>>>>
>
> An 8-3-6 format would be a move towards standardizing. Maybe more
> tournaments need to try the 8 minute constructive with the 6 minute
> rebuttal to see if they like it.
>
> Peace,
>
> Bob Lechtreck
> Bakersfield College
> "Putting out fires, and damn good debaters"



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