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Chapter 209 What is Debate?

The sports meeting is next week. Before the sports meeting, we have to take advantage of the weekend to get rid of the debate competition.

The so-called "Newcomer's Cup" debate held within the debate club will last for a long time. There are six teams in total, round-robin competition, and each of the other teams will fight once. The two teams with the lowest points will be eliminated, and the remaining four teams will be eliminated. Draw lots for knockout rounds, and finally determine the champion and runner-up, as well as the best debater and best rookie in the cup.

This process takes about a month and a half.

The judges of the internal round-robin competition are composed of five people, a club president, and an instructor, and the remaining three will invite qualified judges depending on the situation.

On the weekend of this week, the teams will compete in pairs, and there will be three games.

When Yi Yang came to the public classroom, Wei Ting and Zhan Chao had already arrived. He went up and asked, "Has our captain arrived yet?"

"I haven't seen her yet."

Xing Yingdan is not late, but rarely early.

The three of them waited at the door for a while, and students from other teams came one after another... Naturally, on this special occasion, they had a common name, debater, and a common address, opposing debater.

Wei Ting rubbed her hands together and asked Zhan Chao and Yi Yang, "Are you nervous?"

Zhan Chao said: "It's okay, it's okay to be a little nervous, we are well prepared! A little bit of nervousness later will only make us perform supernormally!"

Yi Yang smiled: "Just treat the audience as Chinese cabbage."

Seeing that the two teammates were so calm, Wei Ting finally showed a slightly relaxed expression.

Zhan Chao added: "And, don't forget, our captain might be the most powerful debater in the school..."

"Big...well?" When Wei Ting was in a daze, footsteps came from the stairs, and the next moment Xing Yingdan appeared around the corner.

Zhan Chao's expression suddenly became unnatural, he was not sure if Xing Yingdan listened to what he said just now.

Fortunately, Xing Yingdan really didn't seem to have heard his slightly awkward joke just now, so she walked up to Yi Yang and asked, "Have you changed the two places you mentioned last time?"

Yi Yang nodded, and handed over the revised paper to Xing Yingdan.

Since the second year of junior high school, they have been practicing calligraphy. Yi Yang and Luo Luoyue have started to write well, and after the third year of junior high school, the computer is added to their home, and they often watch videos of Zhao Mengfu calligraphy. Now he Although the font is not up to the level of the competition, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it is already extremely stretched and pleasing to the eye.

Xing Yingdan looked at it, and once again sighed silently in her heart that the word was written comfortably, but she showed no expression, and continued to ask: "Can you get out of the manuscript?"

Yi Yang said, "It shouldn't be a big problem."

Xing Yingdan nodded: "Don't be nervous later, you're just arguing anyway, crush them to death with your aura!"

Yi Yang smiled: "I will try my best!"

Zhan Chao breathed a sigh of relief, making sure that Xing Yingdan didn't hear it, but just as she was about to go in, she suddenly turned her head and said to the three of them: "By the way, don't call the opponent such a strange thing as Dabian in the arena. If you don't want to sensationalize .”

This was a very harsh lecture, and Zhan Chao's expression became extremely unnatural.

After entering the classroom, apart from the judges and some students from the debating club, there were no more spectators.

Everyone found a seat and sat down. Zhou Dongyang, the president of the debate club, opened the debate software on the console and asked if the captains of the teams were all in place. After waiting for a while, the judges arrived and made a gesture. , motioned everyone to be quiet, and spoke into the microphone: "Okay, judges, teachers, and students, our debate competition is about to start."

The place quieted down.

"Let me first introduce a few of today's judges."

"First of all, the coach of the school's debate team and the instructor of our debate club, Mr. Lai Subin! Mr. Lai once represented Hanning Normal University in the Singapore Discourse University Debating Invitational Championship and won the best debater in the game. Leading our school debate team was also the champion of the Elite Cup National High School Debating Invitational Competition last year!"

A gentle and chubby male teacher in the first row stood up, turned his head and smiled at the students.

"Next, there are seniors Sudan from Class 7 of Senior Three, senior Li Zongzuo from Class 7 of Senior Three, and senior Yang Ruimin from Class 8 of Senior Three. They are all members of the school team that won the championship with the team last year! Thanks to the three seniors for their busy schedule Take some time out of it to be a judge for us!"

Three high school seniors also stood up to pay tribute.

Wei Ting said in a low voice, "The three of them are all seniors in high school..."

Zhan Chao said: "Senior students also need a little time to relax."

"No, what I want to say is that except for Teacher Lai Subin, everyone else is a student..."

Xing Yingdan next to him snorted: "It's a waste of resources for you to be a group of rookies as judges. It's a waste of resources to let other teachers come. You will know later that novices play games without logic and don't talk about it. They often use strong The opponents are dragged to the same level as themselves... In short, debate competitions are only entertaining if they are evenly matched."

Zhan Chao and Wei Ting stopped talking.

Yi Yang took another look at Xing Yingdan.

The last judge's seat, of course, belonged to Zhou Dongyang, the president.

After introducing the judges, it will enter the second link. The judges and teachers will draw lots to decide the order of today's competition.

The final result was that their 6-team and 1-team games were scheduled for Game [-].

Wei Ting breathed a sigh of relief, "That's great...fortunately, I'm not the first one."

If you become the first one, you will be very nervous.

After Zhou Dongyang sat down on the judging panel, a sweet-looking girl came up to the rostrum, and Xing Yingdan explained next to her: "This girl is called Tang Zihan, and she is the liaison officer of the debate club...the one who is in charge of the materials for the school newspaper. She studied broadcasting and her logic was not very good, so she decided to become a full-time host later."

Tang Zihan exchanged glances with the judges and teachers below, sat down and said, "Then, next, let's invite both of the first group to play!"

The first group is the second team against the third team, and the two parties sit down in their respective positions.

Xing Yingdan said: "When you joined the club, we were quite busy, so we didn't have any exhibition competitions, so I just took them to see what a serious debate competition looks like, and then you probably understand what a debate competition is all about. "

"Of course, don't expect it to be very formal. Novices probably can't find a position in the debate at the beginning, and they can't understand what their opponents say. In many cases, you say yours and I say mine."

Yi Yang didn't quite understand the meaning of Xing Yingdan's words at first, but when the first group of matches started, he understood.

Their debate topic was "Scores Matter or Morality Matters".

To be honest, Yi Yang went through it in his mind the first time he saw this debate topic. Based on his gradual understanding of debates during this period, he realized that most of the debate topics are similar to this "both" Both are important, but you must choose a "form.

Yi Yang also understands why the "standard" and "definition" in the debate are so important. If you have to choose one of the two things that everyone thinks is important, it will inevitably involve the issue of "more".

Of course, if it is not this form of proposition, on the one hand, there is no need for speculation, on the other hand, a proposition that is too inclined will be disadvantageous and unfair to one side.

This debate is relatively fair.

After the debaters on both sides have introduced themselves, it is the opening part of the argument.

A debater from both sides stood up and made an opening argument. Because each team has an old man who is a sophomore in high school, there is at least no major problem in the structure of the argument draft. At this time, Yi Yang probably understood why Xing Yingdan repeatedly emphasized that The image and temperament of the debater is very important.

The first debater of the second team is probably a girl who studies vocal music. She has a good temperament, and Yi Yang can hear it as soon as she speaks. She can speak with breath, and her voice is very magnetic. She can attract the attention of the audience at once, and speak at the same time The pace was neither fast nor slow. Although the manuscript was not finished, and the manuscript was read through, it did not affect the judges and audience below to hear the opponent's argument clearly.

Xing Yingdan commented at the side: "This debate is not bad. The only person I had my eyes on at the time was her, but I don't like girls."

Yi Yang asked strangely: "Why don't you like girls?"

"Most girls don't have any logic."

Zhan Chao subconsciously said, "But you and Wei Ting..."

"I'm talking about the majority."

"Uh……"

Yi Yang secretly laughed, Xing Yingdan spoke with a natural aura, very strong!

Then Xing Yingdan commented on the draft of the second team: "It's quite satisfactory, there are no highlights. They are square, and the score is important. If it were me, I would refute their draft from these aspects..." Let's go.

I have to say that after listening to Xing Yingdan's analysis, the debate in front of me suddenly became clear.

Then the first debate of the three teams began to speak, and the gap between the two sides could be seen at once.

The first debater of the third team is a little fat man, probably a boy who is partial to science. His Mandarin is not very standard, and he is a little nervous. He tried to write off the manuscript. At first, he memorized something wrong, and then the whole argument became staggered. .

Teacher Lai Subin at the bottom could try his best to control his expression, so as not to add psychological burden to the debaters on the stage, but several student judges couldn't help frowning. With such a frown, the little fat man became more nervous, and there was a Two or three times it got stuck for a few seconds, and many viewers shook their heads secretly.

Xing Yingdan said: "Most people are playing debate for the first time, and this is the norm."

Such an argument, regardless of the quality of his manuscript, probably the audience didn't listen to it very much. Except for a few judges who patiently took notes to analyze the structure of their arguments, most of the others paid attention to the little fat man's mistakes.

What followed was the second round of interrogation, and the third round of cross-examination. Even Yi Yang could see their novice attributes.

In fact, these two links should all be on-the-spot. The second debate will ask questions about the opponent's argumentation draft in the first debate, so you must listen to the opponent's manuscript, seize the opponent's flaws, and launch the first wave of attack.

However, after the second debate between the two parties, they both took the prepared manuscripts and asked a few irrelevant questions. Xing Yingdan shook her head again and again, and couldn't help complaining: "The obvious loopholes in their manuscripts are not addressed. Catch... oh, white blind."

Zhan Chao listened silently, his small eyes rolled around, he probably knew what to do.

This is even more so in the next three rounds of cross-examination. The three rounds of both parties are also newcomers. They took the questions prepared in advance and asked a round. Look at what cross-examination is."

After the cross-examination session of the third debate, there will be a 5-minute discussion time, followed by the exciting free defense session.

Xing Yingdan said: "Do you understand? The first debate, to put it bluntly, is to build one's own position. The second and third debates are the time for attacking. When the opponent's position is established, aim at their weaknesses. Attack by means of questioning and cross-examination."

Yi Yang, who has never had a sense of presence, added: "The second debate is like a conspiracy, attacking openly, while the third debate is more like a conspiracy. Every question can hide a trap, and the reaction speed is slower. Well, I will pit my own position."

Xing Yingdan patted Yi Yang's shoulder excitedly: "Young man, you understand very well, you can teach a child, you can teach a child!"

"So what do you think of their performance just now?"

Zhan Chao thought for a while, "They seem to have left their position and fought in a mess outside the position."

"Completely correct!"

Yi Yang admired Xing Yingdan from the side. To be honest, this girl's personality is too strong, her logic is strict, and she is somewhat condescending. It seems that she doesn't have any good friends to walk around with. Her popularity may be... well, but only from the perspective of the debate. From a perspective, she is definitely a first-class master. It is already very powerful for their team to establish such an intuitive understanding of the debate in such a short period of time.

The wonderful debate is based on the premise that both sides are strong and can attack and defend on the ground at any time. Obviously, the two sides in the first group do not have this condition. People get up and talk about a lot of useless things, wasting time, or one side catches on a question and asks repeatedly: "The opponent's debate friend, please answer our question, what is morality?"

Of course, this process was quite joyful. The players from both sides suddenly said a few words, which made the audience laugh out loud.

But returning to the debate itself, there are not many meaningful offenses and defenses.

Unlike Xing Yingdan, the elders on both sides are all four debates, because this debate position is the most important, and it is also the position where the best debater is most likely to be selected.

In the final summary of the four debates, the four debates of the two sides finally pulled back the confrontation that the two sides had already deviated from, and started a wave of offense and defense that was a bit dry.

But the final result was shocking. When it was judged that the opposing side won, all the novices below were very confused, because at least it seemed that the situation was the opposite.

This time without Xing Yingdan's explanation, Zhan Chao said: "Although it seems that the positive side has a good argument, and the opposition has been suppressed several times on the scene, in fact, they are all outside the other's position, which is useless, and the opposition has done nothing. But They have been defending their position and refuted the definition of Zhengfang, they still don't know it."

Xing Yingdan said with satisfaction: "That's it."

Sure enough, when the judges commented, Mr. Lai Subin said something...

"People keep asking you, what does your morality mean? You keep evading it, and the morality that the negative side believes refers to Lao Tzu's morality. This is something that is easy to refute, but you don't realize..."

Several newcomers in Zhengfang looked at each other, and one of them couldn't help but said, "Uh, did we escape?"

"too messy……"

Yi Yang wanted to laugh down there, is this a debate?

This is really a matter of process over outcome.

(End of this chapter)