2AR (Lincoln Douglas)

The second Affirmative Rebuttal is the concluding speech of the debate round. This speech is the shortest of all of them in a Lincoln-Douglas debate round. This speech is limited to three minutes, in which the Affirmative must refute the six minutes Negative Rebuttal that was just given. As this is the last speech, Affirmative may not bring up any new arguments in the Rebuttal that the Negative hasn't already addressed. This is unfair to the Negative side.

Often, this speech consists mainly of a number of Voting Issues or main arguments that should determine how the ballot should be determined. This is frequently done to reduce the amount of time as this Rebuttal is so short. Prep time may be used before this speech. After this speech, the round is over and the Judge goes to determine to winner of the Lincoln-Douglas round.