the all asians style.

okay i should know this. for interpolys and interschools the cadc members were repeating these things over and over again. i took this time as an opportunity to prep even more by writing out my points and going over again what i was going to say.

okay prep. firstly sides are flipped. the more common sense thing to do in my opinion, if you won, is to take gov. (proposition) i guess at least u have the chance of controlling the parameters of the case. although personally opp is a hell more fun. but if you have the prize in mind then take prop. then motion release where 3 motions are given.

u have to rank them. automatically 3 is vetoed. so of course u look at the motion. just veetoo something either by the fact u dont know anything about or the fact that its very hard to prop or opp depending on which side ur on.

so by right, the moment motion is released u have 30 mins to prepare your case. as compared to the primary school/secondary school style where according to some in debates, is a simple regurgitation of what your coach told you. (i will leave this to critisism another day). 30 mins thats all you have. its either you have a case already which needs tweaking or u do one from scratch then and there.

the first prop has essentially the toughest job of ensuring evrything needs to be defined set out and explained clearly. debates can be lost or won in the first speaker.

so 7 minutes per constructive speaker. in the all asians style there is this smelly thing called point of information. this has two functions:

1) clarify/rebutt something the guy said
2) throw the speaker off track/distract/intimidate

after 42 mins or so then reply comes. i think i have kind of gotten a hang of how the reply works and have managed to use it effectively to refocus the debate. unlike in sec school, there is no time for discussion between reply and constuctive.

okay i dont think i will really go anymore in to the different styles but concentrate more on me discussing issues i want to and making this my little form of expression.

cheers
timo