That’s a specific event called “policy”. The other competitive highschool debate events in the US (at least when i competed) are public forum, Lincoln Douglas, and student congress. The super fast speaking was referred to as “spreading”, and it only happened in policy debate. Policy was pretty subjectively stupid imo. The year I started debate, the team that won nationals in policy won because their plan only destroyed the world 10x over, where the opponents plan destroyed it 20x over. Not that the other events were any less stupid. Granted that it was a small local tournament and I was against a team of sophomores, but I’ve successfully won a round of public forum debate by claiming that nuclear energy is good and we should make more primarily because that would increase the spawn rate of mutant ninja turtles thus reducing crime.
That’s a specific event called “policy”. The other competitive highschool debate events in the US (at least when i competed) are public forum, Lincoln Douglas, and student congress. The super fast speaking was referred to as “spreading”, and it only happened in policy debate. Policy was pretty subjectively stupid imo. The year I started debate, the team that won nationals in policy won because their plan only destroyed the world 10x over, where the opponents plan destroyed it 20x over. Not that the other events were any less stupid. Granted that it was a small local tournament and I was against a team of sophomores, but I’ve successfully won a round of public forum debate by claiming that nuclear energy is good and we should make more primarily because that would increase the spawn rate of mutant ninja turtles thus reducing crime.