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My home room was next to the debate room and I was always so confused how a club about debating basically boiled down to how fast can you get words out of your mouth. I’m sure I’m simplifying it, but I swear that’s all they did. Just talk really really fast.
This was super enlightening, I appreciate the effort to let me know what I was experiencing all those years ago.
Absolutely not mate! Watch a Ben Shapiro debate, he gets his splinter violated almost every debate! Sure, you might scare or stifle> quote the words into an unexperienced debater but thats not really an accomplishment!
Its kind of a trade off actually! You not answering a point might seem as you coinciding, or even agreeing to it: so it might seem brilliant to bring up 3-4 like benny boy does while only really giving the opportunity to answer one, but… you also give them the choice to pick the one they can answer best while personally pushing your own possibly better arguments away!
That's a specific event called "policy". The other competitive highschool debate events in the US (at least when i competed) are public forum, Lincoln Douglas, and student congress. The super fast speaking was referred to as "spreading", and it only happened in policy debate. Policy was pretty subjectively stupid imo. The year I started debate, the team that won nationals in policy won because their plan only destroyed the world 10x over, where the opponents plan destroyed it 20x over. Not that the other events were any less stupid. Granted that it was a small local tournament and I was against a team of sophomores, but I've successfully won a round of public forum debate by claiming that nuclear energy is good and we should make more primarily because that would increase the spawn rate of mutant ninja turtles thus reducing crime.