I only debated for about a year, then quit because everything was too formalized. But they absolutely held you accountable for debating in good faith. That is, if a reasonably intelligent person could tell what your opponent was trying to say, you weren't supposed to try to twist their meaning.
Which is exactly what you're doing.
Any marginally intelligent human being could tell he was talking about outs as a rate, not a total number of outs per game. Everything relevant to this discussion, for the grown ups in the room, is about rate stats.