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Which side won?

Good man!!!

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omg she's awesome. i wanna steal part of her brain!!

he talks way too fast

high school students and 30 min

thats what she said...

so guud

was this impromptu??, then this was unbelievably great :)

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!!!!!!!!!!"

I love this. POI's are so cool, i cant wait for that in later years.

what is up with this guy's australian lisp?

it is great to use it as a learning tool

THis is a fucking joke. How is this debate? Everything is completely warrantless. THis is absolute trash. I dare any of you to try LD or POLICY debate

@shervin6758 I wanna see a video of it. See how he does it and still wins. Do you have it or do you know if anybody have it?

But parliamentary is the international style of debate. but the good side is we do need a piece less aggressive style, policy is useless. People throwing facts at a situation as fast as they can isn't truly useful. Which is what policy is. LD on the other hand is the most useful for competition because it couples persuasive speaking with a fact based system.

No, it's National style, done in Canada specfically for the Canadian championships. 8min 8min 8min 8min 4min rebuttal 4min rebuttal While Americans believe that "their style" of debate is better, the showing on the worlds stage begs to differ. Canada regularly breaks top 6 whereas Team USA...never breaks. National style allows for a lot of personal style, if you look at Tim Abdullah and Iqbal Kassam they are great examples.

im pretty sure its british parlaimentary system of debate. PM, OP, DPM, DOP for five minutes each. then a second set of teams for five minutes each.

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How old are these debaters? I'm guessing they are juniors, am I right? Were they in grade nine or ten when they did this?

and the most important thing is that these kids would get harassed if they went into to a policy debate round. whereas this would be extremely easy for a policy debater to walk in to and succeed. hqve you guys ever seen american policy debate?

this type of debate is too easy. it isnt even close to the structure of american policy debate. plus policy debate is much more aggressive, and more like a full fleged argument then this, it also allows debaters to step out of the realm of traditional policy making and allows us to critique any aspect of debate.. this is just 4 high school kids role playing as canadian politicians, and there isnt room for individuality like in policy debate in this

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

Trust me, it's possible to speak quite a bit faster than that and still be perfectly comprehensible. Obviously "debate is more than speed reading," but speed is still a big part of good debate.

Crappy/nonexistent argumentation, displaced by obviously contrived, horribly stilted attempts at persuasive appeal, delivered at a mind-numbingly slow pace without any serious attempt at strategic case construction, frameworking, preclusion, etc? Watch any of the NDT or TOC (LD or policy) videos online from the last four or five years by way of contrast and it'll be pretty obvious what I mean.

Wow...Canadian debate is really that bad?

she is really smart..

Actually Canadian Debate is made of win. American debate is sooo stupid. It is a debate of models, not actual ideals. There is a reason why Canadian wins at worlds, and Nor Ams, Pan Ams, Europeans, and spawn the best debaters the worlds has seen. American debate sucks.

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this type of debating is really gay how can u ask questions during someones speech. and these speeches dont even give that many arguments. hit up american policy debate.

this is soooooo gay!! lmao US policy debate is the best man