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Karl Popper Debate Rules (Rules of Debate (Negative Case: The negative…

- - - - An academic debate should educate, include competitiveness and social aspects.
    - - Participants agree:
        
        Not to knowingly use untrue information
        
        To be willing to debate given resolution.
        
        Decent behaviour and mutual respect to the best of their abilities.
  - - - The adjudicators take into consideration the Adjudicator’s handbook when judging the debates. All participants follow the KPDP Code of Ethics.
    - - The Directorate of Competitions decides about the changes of these documents.
- - - - Team: 3-5 debaters
      - The team at the beginning of the debate shall announce names and the order of the three active debaters
      - Debaters of a team can freely change within their team during a competition, albeit not during a debate.
  - - - -Starts the debate. -Defines the resolution. -Introduces the criterion. -Outlines the structure and organization of the defence of the resolution.- Argumentation and basic arguments.
        
        Defines the problem, to which is the solution of the resolution directed at, identifies its cause, presents a specific plan for the solution of the problem, or its causes and bring the advantages of the proposed solution.
        
        A1 finishes his/her speech, s/he is cross-questioned by (N3). Cross-questioning lasts 3 minutes. The main A1 speech lasts 6 minutes
    - - must accept the given definition, unless it contradicts the rules of the competition. and introduces own criterion, on which s/he shows why the new criterion is more suitable/important in the context of the resolution.
        
        own constructive line to support the rejection of the resolution, but s/he has to make sure that he mainly managed to fulfil his/her primary task.
        
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        The first negative speaker attacks some or all points of the affirmative line in the policy resolution.
        
        N1 is cross-questioned (A3).
        
        Cross-questioning lasts 3 minutes. The main N1 speech lasts 6 minutes.
    - - Supports the arguments of A1. Refutes the refutation. Presents new arguments to support the motion and supports existing arguments with other pieces of evidence. Mainly supports the attacked parts of the affirmative case.
        
        Cross-questioned by N1. The main A2 speech lasts 6 minutes.
    - - Deal with the argumentation of the affirmative party, How it was rebutted and supported by the A2 speaker.
        challenges/refutes the rehabilitation of arguments presented by A1 and new arguments brought by A2, eventually informs about the absence of affirmative rehabilitation.
        
        deepens the analysis, but does not bring a totally new approach to the rebuttal. New evidence. Is cross-questioned by A1
    - - Last speaker of the affirmative party. Conclude the argumentation. Determines and analyses main/key clash points in the debate from the affirmative point of view and shows. challenges statements of N2.
        
        If there was a clash of two criteria in the debate, s/he shows why the affirmative criterion was in the context of the resolution more important and what role it played in the motion’s defence.
    - - Concludes the debate from the negative point of view and the debate as such. Finish clashing/challenging resolution defence and reconstruct own argumentation.
        
        Shows why the negative criterion was in the context of the resolution more important and what role it played in the motion’s defence.