
STANCE DRAFTING
Rules & Format
Seniors & Juniors
•Stance drafting requires a team of 3 participants.
•Total time allotted to each team is 15 minutes. This can be split amongst the team members as they desire, though each participant has to speak for a maximum of 1 minute.
•The primary criteria for evaluating the teams will include confidence, creativity, logical reasoning, presentation style, quality of content, depth of research, team coordination, and receptiveness to feedback.
•The presentation should be visually attractive, less textual and should also include statistical data.
•Stance drafting is not impromptu, the topic will be declared for each round at the earliest.
•The use of informal language is not permitted.
•Reference to material while speaking is tolerated but, directly reading is discouraged.