[WarOnPrivacy]

> As a debate student that goes to dozens of tournaments a year, arguing about the same policy topic over and over can get very dry.

That brings up a good point. We probably need to differentiate between a student debate as part of a class vs extracurricular debating.

Students participating in a classroom debate only get so many minutes of exposure; each is valuable. Tighter boundaries would seem to be called for there.

[whimsicalism]

Yes :) As someone very familiar with high school debate, this article is exclusively talking about the extracurricular variety.