Recent Debate Competition

My most recent competition participation had just ended last month. It was a sudden debate competition. Wait a sec, Clara in a English competition? New eh? I didn't know what I was doing anyways at that time. One day Laura told me that there were open slots for the debate group and I spontaneously said yes. It was already 1 week before the competition and I had no idea what a real debate competition was like. Also, the reason that two members of the grade 10 debate team, Michelle SW and Laura dropped out is that they were afraid they could not catch up with the mock exams. They also thought that it would be best to leave the competition opportunity for the scholarship students. T minus 3 days before the competition, I just figured out that there were these so called first speaker, second speaker, and third speaker. I never knew there was a format. All I know about debating is arguing with people and proving they're wrong. Oh how clueless I was back then. Its funny to give a moment to remember that me and Aileen only had 3 days of practice right before the big day.

Finally, when actually participating on D-Day, we knew that we had to have all possible research carried out. This is mostly because that we are not going to be given a topic, not until 30 minutes before the debate. We had to squish it all out in 30 minutes, write every single possible points for our cause (Government or Opposition). Long story short, it was an awesome, tense, emotional battle. Our 'enemies' were actually quite nice, and we became friends. In the end we got to the semi finals before we were totalled by Gloria 1.