National HS Debate Championship 2008 1st Opp

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National HS Debate Championship 2008

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  • I love this.

    "Sir."

    he ignores her.

    "Sir."

    he ignores her.

    "BUT SIR!"

    He ignores her.

    She feels like exploding, he ignores her.

    I half expected her to be like "JUST LISTEN TO ME!!!!!!!!!!"

  • what is up with this guy's australian lisp?

  • Also how much time do they have to prepare?

  • How old are these students?

  • it is great to use it as a learning tool

  • i like this brit ish one; he's comprehensible

  • you want to express your ideas by using gestures specifically "Body Language" to support the details of your speech..

  • isn't he doing too much gestures makes me dizzy x_x

  • round to their advantage, which I don't think is anything that has to be euphemized about--it's part of debate, and if it's something no one in an entire country can do, then debate in that country kinda sorta sucks. Also, if you actually want a legitimate test of styles, come down to Glenbrooks or Greenhill where the judges don't drop people for how they debate and instead listen to and vote on arguments (slow or fast) and see how y'all do.

  • Aaannddd ask yourself when was the last time a top-twenty American debater, either LD or policy, showed up for an "international competition" or even thought about taking one seriously. The debaters who do go don't debate anything like their normal style, because the judging is such shit that two thirds of the judges would drop them just as a matter of ideological, stylistic hackery if they tried to. And you're right, American debaters (well, a few, anyway) are good at preclusion and framing the

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