I had no idea that high school debate teams competed in such a high stress, high pressure arena. I was intrigued about the concept of “spreading” – what a crazy technique/skill! However, it doesn’t make much sense to talk that fast – real world applications of policy debate to me would be based more on argument and method rather than spewing as much info as possible in a set amount of time.

The debaters from Long Beach were a breath of fresh air – I was interested in seeing how they did.