Was watching some videos today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjhzP5prMU
W.T.F. This whizz is beyond ridiculous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjhzP5prMU
W.T.F. This whizz is beyond ridiculous.
It's fun and all for lawyer/politician wanna-bes,
The second guy did exactly the same thing. Seems like SOP for this event.Umm... as someone who regularly argues in court and is forced to think on his feet, I feel safe in saying that whatever the fuck this guy is doing would be absolutely useless in court, out of court, on planet Earth, or beyond. This is debate? I thought it was a Micro Machines commercial audition.
Winning that argument is as easy as walking over and kicking him in the stomach. Sounded like the nerd programmer from Grandmas Boy.
As someone who did this many (15+) years ago...
It's fun and all for lawyer/politician wanna-bes, and it teaches you to think on your feet, but it is so utterly useless in developing rhetorical skills. Everybody tries (or at least they used to) win by simply saying so many things the other team wouldn't have time to respond to them all. ...simply just trying to get as many words in as you can in your allotted time frame (used to be 8 minutes, then 4 minutes for rebuttal).
Sad to see it apparently hasn't changed.
EDIT: add yes, before anyone asks, I was a Master Debater.![]()
Was watching some videos today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjhzP5prMU
W.T.F. This whizz is beyond ridiculous.
That guy is an idiot. And a pretty shitty debater.
Source - While in college I dated one of the top college level Lincoln Douglas debaters in the country. Man she was a PITA. She never let me win any arguments.