I am planning on testing the waters to see if /vrg/ is interested in participating in a debate club. The most voted topic of debate will be voted on and then you can apply to debate for or against said topic. Spectators welcome as long as there is no interruption or heckling during the debate. Debate rules as follows:

>two teams, each consisting of two or three speakers.

>Each team has two or three constructive speeches, and two to three rebuttal speeches. The affirmative gives the first constructive speech, and the rebuttals alternate: negative, affirmative, negative, affirmative. The affirmative has both the first and last speeches of the debate.

>When worded as a proposition of policy, the topic requires the affirmative to support some specified action by some particular individual or group. The affirmative has the right to make any reasonable definition of each of the terms of the proposition. If the negative challenges the reasonableness of a definition by the affirmative, the judge must accept the definition of the team that shows better grounds for its interpretation of the term.

>The affirmative must advocate everything required by the topic itself. No revision of position of a team is permitted during the debate.

>He who asserts must prove. In order to establish an assertion, the team must support it with enough evidence and logic to convince an intelligent but previously uninformed person that it is more reasonable to believe the assertion than to disbelieve it. Facts must be accurate. Visual materials are permissible, and once introduced, they become available for the opponents' use if desired.

cont.