High School Debate Championship 3.11.2022

For more than two decades, The City Club of Cleveland has hosted the annual High School Debate Championship.

Every year, the top two area high school debaters square off in a classic "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate at a Friday forum. This gives the debaters the opportunity to compete-not only for the judges and the audience in the room-but also for our radio and television audiences.

Debate Topic: In a democracy, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy.

Debaters:
Jeremy Battle, Student, University School
Ella Jewell, Student, Kenston High School

Judges:
Artis A. Arnold III, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Huntington National Bank, and City Club board member
Jason Habig, debate coach at Hathaway Brown
Corinne Lashley, debate coach at Chagrin Falls High School

[keriyahh]

i joined the debate team at my school....and I'm nervous so I had to come and watch these videos😭😂

[sophomoremd]

i thought i understood english until i watched this video. bro is in fastforward

[bensonsila]

Oh my, this debating style requires a good listener so as to offer proper rebut. The debaters are quite fast in the way they utter words, I'm astonished how during cross examination each debater responds to the opponent with ease.

[jefffinger]

I have a friend that went undefeated in debating. He was a Master debater

[afroturtle]

How many debates would you say a high school debate team has every year

[RoyeleCleMaryele]

He's on fast-forward yooo....l can't raise a POI 😂

[MrHappy]

The challenge with modern "debate" is as MacIntyre states - the look to the modern tradition for their points - which are quite restrictive. There are excellent points outside of there "acceptable" fields of evidence that they can us due to social pressure.

[btinsley]

This is not a debate, it is merely speed reading. I bet if you asked him a question regarding what he just said, he would be at a pathetic loss for words.😂😂😂

[thelostgeneration]

Years of coaching on rhetoric and speech and every other word is still "like" :/

[CakesTv]

Look up HIGHSCHOOL POLITICAL/TRANSGENDER DEBATE GETS HEATED that is how you debate