Sterling Debate & Forensics Lincoln Douglas Debate (LD)
One person policy debate which examines the benefits versus the harms of a proposed government action. NFA LD was created in 1991 and is closer to high school policy debate and college CETA/NDT debate than to either high school LD or Parliamentary Debate. The primary differences, besides a one vs one person format, are a more conversational speaking style, shorter and fewer speeches, and a lower volume of evidence.
The commonly accepted common time structure is as follows:
The commonly accepted common time structure is as follows:
- Affirmative Constructive (AC) - 6 minutes
- Cross-examination of Affirmative speaker by the Negative - 3 minutes
- Negative Constructive and 1st Negative Rebuttal (NC and 1NR) - 7 minutes
- Cross-examination of Negative speaker by the Affirmative - 3 minutes
- 1st Affirmative Rebuttal (1AR) - 4 minutes
- 2nd Negative Rebuttal (2NR) - 6 minutes
- 2nd Affirmative Rebuttal (2AR) - 3 minutes