Five speeches, a value/criterion clash running underneath everything, and a 1AR that has to answer all of it in four minutes — LD punishes a flow that can't keep framework and case separate. RoundFlow lays out all five columns and lets you link every response to exactly what it's answering.
This is the exact column layout RoundFlow builds the moment you pick Lincoln-Douglas — nothing to configure by hand.
Prep time: 4:00 per side, shared across the whole round — RoundFlow's timer tracks it separately from speech time.
Give the value and criterion their own cards before the contentions. The NC's framework attacks will target them directly, and you want to be able to find them without scanning past every contention first.
The NC often introduces a competing value/criterion and answers the AC's case in the same speech. Keep the framework debate and the line-by-line case clash in visually separate parts of the flow so they don't blur together going into the 1AR.
Four minutes to answer everything in the NC means there's no time to re-explain arguments. Use Respond → to link 1AR extensions straight back to the AC/NC cards they're answering.
A well-run NR picks one value/criterion lens and reads every remaining piece of offense through it. Mark that choice clearly on the flow — it's the target the 2AR has to beat.
The 2AR is short and comparative, not a place for new material. Reference the flow's existing framework and contention cards directly to make the weighing explicit rather than starting from scratch.
Every card can be tagged with the term it actually is — Framework, Role of the Ballot, Independent Voter, RVI, and A priori are all one click away.
The AC's framework: what matters most in the round (value) and how the judge should measure it (criterion).
The broader lens — value/criterion or a role-of-the-ballot argument — that decides which contentions actually matter.
A standalone reason to vote for a side that doesn't depend on winning the framework debate.
A Reverse Voting Issue — an argument that a theory violation should cost the side who ran it the round, not just the argument.
An argument the judge should evaluate before anything else in the round, regardless of what else is won or lost.
Whether the status quo already has (or lacks) the outcome an argument claims will happen.
Free, no account, and it saves straight to your browser. Framework and case stay visually distinct, and one shared Preflow if you're running the same case all tournament.