Bugsy460

We've already gotten a Discord going, we can add you to it. PM me your Discord if you don't want it on a public forum.

We need at least four competitors and one judge and one moderator. For those who have never done, watched, or heard of parli, the basic idea is that 25 minutes before the round, the moderator will give us a topic as well as sides. We then have 25 minutes to prep for it. Affirmatives can either read a kritikal aff rejecting the topic or a policy aff that either uses the resolution as their plan text or gets more specific in some way. Negs can employ theory, disadvantages, CPs, or kritiks to answer it, as well as, answering the case. Speech times are as follows. Lastly, flex time is a combination of in round prep as well as questioning.

Prime Minister Constructive (PMC, First Affirmative):         7 minutes

Two minute Flex time

Leader of Opposition Constructive (LOC, First Negative): 8 minutes

Two minute Flex time

Member of Government (MG, Second Affirmative):             8 minutes

One minute Flex time

Member of Opposition (MO, Second Negative):                      8 minutes

Leader of Opposition Rebuttal (LOR, Final Negative):          4 minutes

One minute Flex time

Prime Minister Rebuttal (PMR, Final Affirmative):                   5 minutes

I'll create a  new forum post and I'll base it on NPDA (actually just went to it this weekend). In the post, I'll give all the rules that will be helpful, as well as, it'll be a place to sign up for the round. When we get at least four competitors and an odd number of judges/moderators, We can then use Discord to find a time that works for all.

I saw you were wanting to do a parli debate, and I would love to be a part of one.\. I actually do it for my college, so the practice would be great. If you're still up for it, lemme know some way and maybe we can get a forum post going.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by a primer?

1. I'm a bit new to this platform, I used to have an account and I used it for a month about a year ago, but I got super busy with personal issues and dropped it, but I'm back, and saying that, I'm curious how useful kritiks are on this platform. I see a lot of debates say they aren't allowed in the rules, so I was curious how often they are used when not banned and if people are willing to vote on them.

2. As a second question, should kritiks have a space on this platform. I'm a part of live debate circuits and kritiks are everywhere and it brings a lot of questions if they're good or bad for debate as a whole and I wanted to get some opinions on that.

The problem with banning these as topics is it doesn't account for kritikal arguments in a meaningful way. For example, as a proud Native American, if I wanted a topic around the critical literature of settler colonialism (obviously not reading a kritik against a normal resolution, but creating a critical resolution), using a topic like "Resolved: On balance, kill the Indian, save the man is a good idea", or "Resolved: The white man must take what is rightfully his from inferior natives". These ideas, while seeming to support the idea of white supremacism, would actually allow for an easy platform for me to critically reject a resolution. I'm a bit new to this platform, so I don't know how often kritikal debate happens, but banning things on the perceived resolution would kill any chance for kritikal debate.