Unfortunately, this is even more true in college. Policy debate teams are well funded at universities (the policy team at mine has a 6 figure budget) because they essentially conduct research writing cases on gun control, drug policy, healthcare, etc. I compete in British Parliamentary Debate in which no evidence packets are allowed in the round and the resolution is only revealed 15 minutes before the start. The consequence is that argumentation and persuasion take precedence over pretentious motermouthed screaming comparisons of Harvard studies vs Yale studies that only exclude minorities and women from the activity.