What I Learned From Debating

  ‘This House Would Kill Justin Bieber’. It was kind of weird when I received this motion. It was my first time participating in a debate. I never loved debate because it drove me crazy when people request for POIs and in a blink of an eye you need to figure out the answer to attack the opposition group. But I had learned a lot from this debate competition that was organised by my English lecturer, Miss Jo.

   First of all, you need to be prepared to accept the motions that are going to be offered to you. For instance, This House Would Kill Justin Bieber, This House Believes That Optimus Prime Should Rule the World and This House Believes That the Earth Is Flat. The challenges came when you need to find your solid points to defend your motion because for some of it, you could not find it on the internet plus you need matured points to stand.

    Next, you need to use all the chances that were given to you. The POIs session was really important for both of the teams to strengthen and rebut the point of the opponent. As for the opponent, seriously you need a quick brain to answer all of the POIs even though you were struggling by your own selves to stand on the other side. You need to be persuasive enough to appeal to the emotion logic of the judges and your opponent. Trust me, you judges were human too so they could possibly get influence by their personal thought.

   As a conclusion, win and loss was just another thing. The important part was you must be confident with yourself and listen to what other people wanted to say because sometimes you can twisted their point to rebut all of their argument.