Debate really is fun.
The aforementioned claim, as bizarre as it sounds, is not that great an exaggeration from arguments I have heard in CEDA debate. Not withstanding such claims, debate is an exciting, intellectually stimulating way to engage bright young minds in a game which sharpens participants' skills in critical thinking and analysis, public speaking, researching, writing, and listening. As an argumentation educator and debate coach, surprisingly, ty chief concern is not the often unintelligible hyper-speed rate of delivery employed by some debaters before some critics. The smart debaters learn to adapt to the ballot. Natural selection will weed out the others if like minded critics stand by their convictions and award decisions and speaker points accordingly.