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Tips for Debate Watching Party Hosts
Planning Tips
- Consider hosting a debate watching party at your home, a local
university, restaurant, bar or club. Invite your guests to come at least
a half-hour before the start of the debate so that you can get
acquainted. Consider using Evite.com or another online invitation
program to keep things simple, creative, and inexpensive.
- Think about integrating your debate watching party with other group
activities you participate in, such as book clubs or volunteer
activities.
- Have a specific RSVP date and time to gauge how many guests will
attend, and provide guests directions to the party location.
What to Bring
During the Debate
To add some spirit to your debate watching party, invite your guests to
arrive early so that you can offer some viewing tips to keep things
lively. The key is to find ways to make the ‘watching’ part
of the party a more active experience.
- Assign guests roles to follow – moderator, candidates,
questioner, etc – and after the debate talk about how that
perspective affects your view of the debate and the candidates.
Use
our Debate Watching Discussion Guide to analyze each
portion of the debate.
- Make predictions about the topics that will be covered in the debate
and which candidates might ‘win.’ After the debate, you can
compare your expectations with the outcome.
- Make a game of it – award points or prizes to the guest who
can best argue for and/or against statements made by the candidates
during their debate.
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