Policy Debate Timer vs PO PRO

Policy Debate Timer is a simple, intuitive tool for students, coaches, and judges in policy debate. Quickly track speech times, prep time, and cross-examination segments with one-tap controls. Includes helpful coaching tips to improve your rounds. Designed to keep debate rounds organized and on time, whether you’re competing or judging.

PO PRO is an app dedicated to making running congressional debate rounds simple and easy. It tracks speaker order, aff and neg speeches, questioning periods, legislation progress, and voting results. It makes the work of the PO simple and streamlined so even novices can fill the role. FEATURES Chamber Management: - Add competitors and automatically randomizes speaker precedence - Track speeches and questioning history - Constantly updates chamber order and precedence Debate Workflow: - Guides the PO through each stage of debate - Manages speeches, questioning, voting, and bill transitions - Automatically alternate affirmative and negative speeches - Supports amendment speeches - Supports second sessions with the same chamber (reverse precedence) Timers: - Built-in speech timers - 3 min 10 second speeches, 120/60 second questioning periods based on speech number Legislation Management: - Import docket - Tracks the current bill being debated - Moves between bills Voting & Records: - Record votes for bills and ammendemnts - Maintains full debate history - Can export debate history in .csv format