美式公共论坛制（PF）辩论赛事简介
美式公共论坛制辩论（Public Forum Format，简称PF赛制）为美国流行的中学生赛事赛制，也是国内青少年英辩赛中使用最广泛的辩论赛制。国内主要赛事包括NHSDLC美式辩论联赛、TOC演讲与辩论联赛、WSDA演讲与辩论联赛等。
辩位设置：2人一队，分正反方（Pro、Con）
发言顺序：
比赛结果：
一场辩论产生赢或输两种结果，分别对应team points得分1分、0分。
比赛的规模通常决定晋级队伍的数量。所有预选轮打完，先将队伍team points从高往低排序，取排名靠前的队伍晋级。
如果team points相同，比较队伍speaker points的总和。
个人分打分标准：
29.5-30: I wish I could frame your speeches –hard to imagine a better speaker
29.1-29.4: you were consistently excellent
28.8-29.0: you were effective and strategic,and made only minor mistakes
28.3-28.7: you hit all the right notes, butcould improve (e.g. depth or efficiency)
27.8-28.2: you mainly did the right thing, butleft something to be desired
27.3-27.7: you missed major things and werehard to follow
27.0-27.2: you advanced little in the debate orcost your team the round
26.0-26.9: you are not ready for thisdivision/tournament
Below 26: you were offensive, ignorant, rude,or tried to cheat