Is There a Difference Between Free Response and Debate?

With debate you have like some hope of getting, like, reasoning kind of like that. You can prove things about the sort of game structure and how things are going to play out. But when you have free text, this can kind of break cas ah, yo. One debater can make an argument that's got a sort of hidden floor in and the other debater tries to criticise that floor. And then the first debater sort of evade the criticism or is like, no, there's a problem in your argumentor Sort of pretence to kind of miss on, you know, pretence that the otherdebater was referring to something else. Basicall avoids the argument actually