Featured RoundsCopy Anchor Link

Real rounds anyone can open from the Featured section of the /debate start screen, with every speech's doc already filled in and the timers set to the round's format.

• Route: /debate (start screen), or a featured round's own link such as /debate/2015-ndt/northwestern-mv-michigan-ap
• Package: debate-round

What's thereCopy Anchor Link

NDT 2015 Finals (Northwestern MV vs Michigan AP) is a college policy round with eight speeches: 1AC, 1NC, 2AC, 2NC, 1NR, 1AR, 2NR and 2AR. The seven speech docs that were shared publicly (1AC through 2NR) open in their speeches; there is no 2AR doc, so that speech starts blank.

Click the card and the round opens as one flow with college policy timers (9-minute constructives, 3-minute cross-examinations, 6-minute rebuttals and 10 minutes of prep per side). Open any speech to read its doc. The round is then yours like any other: flow it, edit the docs, pin it. Clicking the card again reopens that same copy rather than building a new one; delete the round's flow to start fresh.

Beside the videoCopy Anchor Link

The round's video in the library, 2015 NDT Finals - Northwestern MV vs Michigan AP, gets a Speech docs tab in the column beside the player, opened first. It shows one speech's doc at a time: click a speech (1AC to 2AR) or use the arrows to flip through them while you watch. Each doc is shown read-only in read mode, so a card's body shows only its highlighted text. The 2AR button is greyed out because there's no doc for it. Open in debate view goes to the full round with timers.

How it worksCopy Anchor Link

Featured rounds are a built-in catalog, FEATURED_ROUNDS in packages/debate-round/src/round/featured-rounds.ts. Each entry names the round's format, teams and slug, plus the public Topic Starter library file (topic_starter_items.id) holding each speech's doc.

DebateStartPanel (Featured card) → DebateFlowPage.handleOpenFeatured
  → findLocalFeaturedRound(): already built? reopen it
  → loadFeaturedSpeechDocs(): GET /api/topic-starters/by-path?path=<id> per speech
      → storedDocumentHtml() decodes each .cmir row to HTML
  → buildFeaturedRound(): newFlow() in the round's format, speechDocs filled
  → createRound() + setFlows(); settings.debateStyle set to the format

A catalog entry with a videoId also adds the watch page tab: both watch routes (app/videos/_watch/video-route-page.tsx and the webview's VideoWatchRoute) pass featuredSpeechDocsTabs(videoId) from debate-round to VideoWatchPage's sideTabs prop, which WatchSidePanel shows ahead of its own tabs. FeaturedSpeechDocsPanel loads the docs with the same loadFeaturedSpeechDocs() and renders the HTML read-only with its own pmd-* card styles, so no editor is booted. debate-videos only knows about generic host tabs, not featured rounds.

Opening /debate/<featured slug> with no local copy builds it the same way, so the link can be shared. A doc that fails to load is named in a notice under the cards and the rest of the round still opens.

Known gapsCopy Anchor Link

• The docs are copied into the flow's speechDocs, about 1.5 MB of HTML for NDT 2015 Finals, so the round takes a large share of the browser's localStorage (and of the flow history entry the store saves for it).
• The catalog pins library row ids. If an admin deletes or re-uploads one of those Topic Starter files, its speech opens blank until the id is updated.