Debate Team (2008)
America loves a winner and will not tolerate a loser
90 min
Debate Team is a documentary exploring the weird subculture of competitive college debate. Competitors battle at 360 words per minute, hauling around mountains of evidence called "cards" and nearly every debate ends in global nuclear annihilation. In 2005, some 200 teams converged on San Francisco State to compete in the National Championship. The documentary follows four teams, from Michigan State, Harvard, West Georgia, and Berkeley in their quest for the national title. What emerges is not simply the chronicle of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, but a more disturbing examination into the nature of competition itself and the American fetish with championships and champions.
- Release date
- October 19, 2008
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
Cast
- Aaron Hardy as Self
- Michael Klinger as Self
- Joe Koehle as Self
- Calum Matheson as Self
- Michael Miller as Self
- Morgan Miller as Self
- Stacey Nathan as Self
- William Repko as Self
- Erin I. Robbins as The Big Board Girl
- Greta Stahl as Self
Crew
- B. Douglas Robbins · Director
- B. Douglas Robbins · Producer
- Joseph W. Walling · Producer
- Ian M. Gray · Composer
- Josh Seidenfeld · Composer
- Joseph W. Walling · Cinematographer
- B. Douglas Robbins · Editor