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DebateFlex

Time debates with round-specific timers

Eric Karlins

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Description

Debate timer allows users to set and adjust timers for different debate rounds. It includes pre-set time limits for Policy, Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas, World Schools, and British Parliamentary formats.

Flexible debate timer app. This is a timer to use during high school debates and similar. There are separate timers for the different rounds of the debate. There are defaults set for 5 styles of debate: "Policy", "Public Forum", "Lincoln-Douglas", "World Schools", and "British Parliamentary". The times are also editable. If you add the participant names by pressing the "Participant Names" button, the names will show up in the round when they are the main speaker. For WSD and BP the screen changes to blue for the first minute to reflect that it's protected time where no POIs are allowed. For all timers the background changes to yellow with one minute remaining and to orange with 30 seconds remaining. This can be used simply as a warning that time is running out, or as protected time if that applies to your particular style of debate.