Ever since its inception Crossfire/Ted Turner/Public forum debate (or however you knew it at one point in time) was created to counter the increasingly technically-based rounds that were being seen in its predecessors LD and CX.
Topicality, in its purest form, is meant to be a check on the affirmative in order to preserve some semblance of basic arguments that the negative would reasonably be able to assert. Let’s take the NFA LD Resolution for 2009-2010 as an example of this: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its domestic transportation infrastructure.
