I am reborn and just want to concentrate on my studies

The sports meeting is next week. Before the sports meeting, we need to take advantage of the weekend to hold the debate competition.

The so-called "Rookie Cup" debate competition held within this debate club lasts for a long time. A total of six teams compete in a round-robin manner and compete against each other team once. The two teams with the lowest points are eliminated, and the remaining four teams Lots will be drawn for a knockout round to determine the champion and runner-up, as well as the best debater and best newcomer 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. The remaining three will invite qualified judges depending on the situation.

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

When Yi Yang arrived at the public classroom, Wei Ting and Zhan Chao had already arrived. He went up and asked, "Isn't our captain here yet?"

"I haven't seen her yet."

Xing Yingdan is not late, but she rarely arrives 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 title, called each other's debate partner.

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

Zhan Chao said: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if you are a little nervous. We are fully prepared! A little bit of nervousness later will only make us perform exceptionally well!"

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

Seeing how calm her two teammates were, Wei Ting finally showed a slightly more relaxed expression.

Zhan Chao added: "Besides, don't forget, our captain is the most powerful debater in the school..."

"Poop?" Wei Ting was stunned when footsteps came from the stairs, and the next moment Xing Yingdan's figure appeared around the corner.

Zhan Chao's expression suddenly became unnatural. He was not sure whether what he just said was heard by Xing Yingdan.

Fortunately, Xing Yingdan really didn't seem to hear the awkward joke he just said. He walked straight up to Yi Yang and asked, "Have the two places mentioned last time been changed?"

Yi Yang nodded and handed the revised essay to Xing Yingdan.

Yi Yang and Luo Luoyue have been practicing calligraphy since the second grade of junior high school. They got started and began to write somewhat well. Later, after the third grade of junior high school got a computer at home, they often watched videos of Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy. Now they Although the font is not up to competition level, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is already extremely comfortable and pleasing to the eye.

Xing Yingdan looked at it and silently sighed again that the writing was very comfortable, but there was no expression on it, and she continued to ask: "Can I finish the manuscript?"

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

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

Yi Yang smiled: "I'll try my best!"

Zhan Chao breathed a sigh of relief and made sure Xing Yingdan didn't hear it, but just when she was about to go in, she suddenly turned around and said to the three of them: "By the way, don't call the opponent something weird like "Da Debian" on the field. If you don't want to sensationalize, .”

This was a very severe sermon, and Zhan Chao's expression became extremely unnatural.

Entering the classroom, except for the judges and some students from the debate club, there were no more spectators.

Everyone randomly 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 several teams were present. After waiting for a while and several judges to arrive, he made a gesture. , signaled everyone to quiet down, and spoke into the microphone: "Okay, judges, teachers, and classmates, our debate competition is about to begin."

The scene fell silent.

"Let me introduce today's judges first."

"First of all, the coach of the school debate team and the instructor of our debate club, Teacher Lai Subin! Teacher Lai once represented Hanning Normal University and won the championship in the Singapore Discourse College Debate Invitational Competition, and won the best debater in one fell swoop. He led our school debate team to win the Elite Cup National High School Debate Invitational Tournament last year!”

A gentle-looking and plump male teacher in the first row stood up, turned around and smiled at the students.

"Next, we have Sultan from Class 7, Grade 3, Senior Li Zongzuo from Class 7, Grade 3, and Yang Ruimin from Class 8, Grade 3. They were all members of the school team that won the championship last year! Thank you to the three seniors for their busy schedules Take the time to be a judge for us!"

The three senior high school students also stood up to pay tribute.

Wei Ting whispered: "The three of them are all seniors in high school..."

Zhan Chao said: "High school seniors also need some relaxation time."

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

Xing Yingdan, who was next to him, snorted: "It's a waste of resources for you to be a group of rookies as judges and to ask other teachers to come. You will know later. When novices compete in a competition, they will not talk about it without logic, and they often use powerful The opponents are dragged to the same level as themselves... In short, debate competitions are only enjoyable 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 naturally belongs to Zhou Dongyang as the president.

After introducing the judges, we entered the second link, where the judges and teachers drew lots to determine the order of today's competition.

The final result was that the match between their 6th team and their 1st team was scheduled for the third game.

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

If I were the first one, I would be extremely nervous.

After Zhou Dongyang sat down at the judges' table, a sweet-looking girl came up to the rostrum. Xing Yingdan explained beside her: "This girl's name is Tang Zihan, she is the liaison officer of the debate club... She is the person in charge of the materials for the school newspaper. She studied broadcasting, but her logic was not very good, so she later became a full-time host."

After Tang Zihan exchanged glances with the judges and teachers below, he sat down and said, "Then, let's invite the first group to come on stage!"

The first group is the second team against the third team. People from both sides sit down in their respective positions.

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

"Of course, don't expect it to be very formal. Novices will probably not be able to find a position in the debate at the beginning, and they will not understand what their opponents are saying. Most of the time, 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 games started, he roughly understood.

Their debate topic was "Is grades more important or morals more important?"

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

Yi Yang also understood why the "standards" and "definitions" in the debate are so important. Two things that everyone thinks are important. If you must choose one, then it must involve the issue of "update".

Of course, if it were not a proposition of this form, on the one hand there would be no need for speculation, and on the other hand a too tendentious debate would be disadvantageous and unfair to one party.

This debate question is relatively fair.

After both debaters introduced themselves, it was time to make their arguments.

The debaters from both sides stood up to make their opening arguments. Because there was an old man in the second year of high school in each team, there was at least no big problem in the structure of the argument draft. At this time, Yi Yang roughly understood why Xing Yingdan repeatedly emphasized one point. The image and temperament of a 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 opens her mouth. She can make breathy sounds, and her voice is magnetic, and she can attract the audience's attention at once, and she speaks at the same time. The pace was neither too fast nor too slow, and although the script was not written out and the script was read, it did not affect the judges and the audience below from hearing the other party's arguments clearly.

Xing Yingdan commented next to her: "This is a good argument. The only person I liked 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 said subconsciously: "But you and Wei Ting..."

"I'm talking about the majority."

"Well……"

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

Xing Yingdan then commented on the second team's argumentative draft: "It's quite satisfactory, with no bright spots. They are the right side, and their scores are important. If it were me, I would refute their argumentative draft from these aspects..." Blah blah blah.

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 immediately.

The first debater of the third team is a little fat guy, probably a boy who prefers science. His Mandarin is not very good, and he is a little nervous. He tried to write something out of the script. At the beginning, he memorized something wrong, and then the whole argument became stumbling. .

Teacher Lai Subin at the bottom could still control his expression as much as possible so as not to increase the psychological burden on the debaters on the stage. However, several student judges couldn't help but frowned. Such a frown made the little fat man even more nervous. There was also a question in the middle. Two or three times, it was stuck for several seconds, and many viewers shook their heads secretly.

Xing Yingdan said: "Most people compete in a debate competition for the first time. This is the norm."

With such an argument, regardless of the quality of his manuscript, the audience probably didn't pay much attention to it. Except for a few judges who patiently took notes and analyzed the structure of their arguments, most of the others focused on the little fat man's mistakes.

The next step was the second defense questioning and the third defense cross-examination. Even Yi Yang could see their novice attributes.

In fact, these two links should all be done on the spot. The second debate will question and ask questions based on the opponent's draft of the first debate. Therefore, you must listen to the opponent's draft, seize the opponent's flaws, and launch the first wave of attack.

However, after the second debate began, both sides took prepared manuscripts and asked a few irrelevant questions. Xing Yingdan shook his head repeatedly and couldn't help complaining: "They didn't even bother to remove the obvious loopholes in their manuscripts." Catch…oh, it’s all in vain.”

Zhan Chao listened silently, his little eyes rolling. He probably knew what to do.

The next three debates were even more so. The three debaters on both sides were also newcomers. They took the questions prepared in advance and asked them. You see what cross-examination is."

After the three-debate cross-examination session, there was a five-minute discussion, followed by an exciting free debate session.

Xing Yingdan said: "Do you understand? The first debate is to build your own position. The second and third debates are your attack time. After the opponent's position is established, target the weaknesses in their position. Attack by questioning and cross-examination.”

Yi Yang, who has always had no sense of presence, added: "The second debate is like a conspiracy, attacking openly, but the third debate is more like a conspiracy. Every question can hide a trap. If you respond slower, you can't solve it." It’s better to trap your own position yourself.”

Xing Yingdan patted Yi Yang's shoulder excitedly: "Young man, you understand it very well. Children can be taught, children can be taught!"

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

Zhan Chao thought for a while, "It was like they left their position and had a chaotic fight outside the position."

"Completely correct!"

Yi Yang admired Xing Yingdan from the side. To be honest, this girl's personality was too strong, her logic was strict, and she was a bit condescending. She didn't seem to have many close friends to go around with. Her popularity might be... well, but just from the debate. From a perspective, she is definitely a first-class expert. Just in such a short period of time, she has allowed their team to establish such an intuitive understanding of debate, which is already very impressive.

A wonderful debate is based on the premise that both sides are very strong and can attack and defend on the battlefield at any time. Obviously, the two sides in the first group did not meet this condition. During the free debate, they ran further and further away, or they were a People get up and talk a lot of useless things, wasting time, or one party catches a question and asks repeatedly: "Friend of the other party, please answer our question, what is morality?"

Of course, this process was quite joyful. Players from both sides made two random remarks, which made the whole audience burst into laughter.

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

The old people on both sides, unlike Xing Yingdan, are both in the fourth debate, because this debate position is the most important and the easiest position to find the best debater.

In the final summary of the four debates, the four debates of both sides finally brought back the confrontation that the two sides had already deviated from, and began a wave of offensive and defensive activities that were somewhat useful.

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

This time there was no need for Xing Yingdan to explain, Zhan Chao said: "Although it seems that the positive side has a good argument and has suppressed the negative side several times on the scene, it is actually outside the other party's position and is of no use. The negative side has done nothing well, but They have been holding their ground and have refuted the definition of righteousness, but they still don’t know it.”

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

Sure enough, when the judges were commenting, teacher Lai Subin said...

"People keep asking you, what do you mean by morality? You keep evading. The morality that the opposition considers refers to Lao Tzu's morality. Originally, this was an easy thing to refute, but you didn't realize..."

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

"too messy……"

Yi Yang wanted to laugh below. Is this a debate?

This is truly a matter of process over results.