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Debate timer with shared prep time pool

Judge on phone. Debater on tablet. Real-time sync. Prep pool tracks automatically across all speeches and auto-pauses on every speech.

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LD · Policy · Public Forum · Parliamentary

Lincoln-Douglas

AC · NC · 1AR · NR · 2AR, with CX between constructives.

4 min prep per debater

Policy (CX)

1AC through 2AR with CX between each constructive.

8 min prep per team

Public Forum

Constructives · Crossfires · Summaries · Grand Crossfire · Final Focus.

3 min prep per team

Parliamentary

PMC · LOC · MGC · MOC · LOR · PMR with POI windows.

No prep time

What most debate timers miss

Most mobile debate timers share the same gap that affects every LD, Policy, and PF round: shared prep time pools. They treat prep as a per-speech countdown, which isn’t how these formats actually work — prep is a pool each side draws from across the whole round.

DebateClock is built around that pool. The judge taps "Start Prep — Aff" — the pool counts down on both the judge's controller and the debater's display simultaneously. Stop it, and it saves the remaining time for next use. Start a speech, and active prep auto-pauses. It's how the format actually works.