Teamwork Debate teaches teamwork and collaboration.Cooperation is vital to success.In the format we will be using in 2010-11, each debater depends on their affirmative or negative teammate, the affirmative team depends on its negative (and vice versa), and all four debaters depend on members of their squad and their coach(es).Debaters soon learn that Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM).Even in the context of competition, each team depends on its dialectical counterpart and the judge to bring the debate experience into being and fruition.
Featured below are some candid moments of teamwork from the 2011 LMSSDL tournament (courtesy of Michael Brohm).