Students posted questions for the upcoming (if and when it happens) Republican CNN/YouTube debate and instructors asked experts (people whose specialty is debate, rhetoric, the subject matter of the question, and often more than one of these) to comment on each question and to comment more broadly on the process.

The experts guest commenters' analysis was posted on a special page at the BFTFI website.

The experts include Stefan Bauschard, President, PlanetDebate.com, the Director of Debate for the Lakeland School District (NY), and assistant debate coach at Harvard University; Professor Matthew Hale, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Healthcare Administration at Seton Hall University; John Lyne, Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh; Martin Medhurst, Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Baylor University; Alan Schroeder, Associate Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University and  author of Presidential Debates: 40 years of High-Risk TV; Ben Sovacool, Fellow at the Centre for Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore; Dave Steinberg, Director of Debate and Lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Miami; Barbara Warnick, Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh.

The commentary of these experts is of value not only to the students they helped directly, but potentially to anyone who is interested in posing good debate questions.