[eiiot]

Many tournaments (especially on the West Coast) and their organizers enjoy and encourage kritical debate. (That's what they did in high school -- Kritical debate was born in Policy Debate, and spread to other formats, so many coaches have that previous experience) Many on the East Coast ban it entirely, or heavily discourage it. At some level, there are almost two different leagues. The "tech" debaters even have their own championship, of sorts (NPDI).

[whimsicalism]

You must be talking about a particular event (parli?) because the K is on all coasts in policy

[eiiot]

Yea, I'm talking about parli. (I presume the article was generally focused on parli as the author is a relatively well-known parli debater.)

[whimsicalism]

I think most of her examples are drawn from policy and ld