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debate for kids who either: 1. are too unintelligent to do a real event, 2. can't do their normal event at a tournament and want to be in an event that's easy to win, 3. don't really like debate but want it on their transcripts, 4. don't have time for real debate, or 5. want to practice empty rhetoric. Ted Turner invented the event so that he could use the "Crossfire" from CNN in a high school activity, but after its first year in existence he disowned it because the debaters were too rude and whiny. Hence the current name, public forum. This event almost always has lay-judges, or mommy judges, as real debaters call them. The team with the best voice wins. The topic is always simplistic and changes every month. The emphasis is on dumbing down the world so you can explain it to an idiot.
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