Originally Posted by
Unknown008
Anyway, got the debate an hour ago. My friend was the one who had to up up the arguments, and me the rebuttal. However, he lacked some material, I proposed to give him mine, since I got more arguments than required and I only needed to rebut.
He said that he was ok, that I need not give him mine. Then, he was short on ideas, too late to give him more info now :( Used half the time allocated.
Then rebuttal round, I was nervous about the fact that we had wasted a lot of time, that I forgot my rebuttal and got off completely. Fortunately, the opposing team did that too. Then, the summary time, my friend, well, sort of didn't say the required things and made my team lose the debate.
However, as I replied to many questions after the debate from the audience, and my opposing team member who did too, both of us were close to the 'best speaker'. She once or twice got 'black out' (of ideas) and that made me the best speaker, so yeah! :D
Many thanks to all those who supported me in that debate, I really would never have got that best speaker title if you were not there :)