NFA-LD

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NFA-LD is a form of competitive collegiate debate adapted from high school Lincoln-Douglas debate sponsored by the National Forensics Association.

The topic for 2007-2008 is: RESOLVED: That the United States Federal Government should substantially increase assistance to the Greater Horn of Africa in one of the following areas: economic development, human rights protection, or public health.

The format of NFA-LD varies from the format of team policy debate. NFA-LD debate is one-on-one debate (thus, there is no negative block) and follows the following structure (total prep time for each debater is 4 minutes):

First Affirmative Constructive Speech (abbreviated 1AC)	6 minutes
Cross-Examination of First Affirmative by the Negative	3 minutes
First Negative Constructive Speech (1NC)	7 minutes
Cross-Examination of First Negative by Affirmative	3 minutes
First Affirmative Rebuttal (1AR)	6 minutes
First Negative Rebuttal (1NR)	6 minutes
Second Affirmative Rebuttal (2AR)	3 minutes

A site developed by Danny Cantrell (Cerritos College) that is dedicated towards spreading NFA-LD in Southern California (and anywhere else) is SoCal-LD.net There are demonstration videos and lots of free evidence to get you started in the activity.