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CAGAYAN VALLEY
DEBATE UNION
 CAGAYAN VALLEY DEBATE UNION

 Born 2017

 Non-Profit Organization

 Aims to Promote the debate scene in the Region

 Aims to create an organized and more competitive

debaters/debate orgs/debate competitions in the region

 Conducted 1 major Tournament, 1 Major Seminar, few

training sessions.
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 Debate 101

 Definition

 Importance

 Asian Parlimentary
 Discussion and Argumentation VS Debate

 (Debate) a FORMAL DISCUSSION on a particular topic in a public

meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are
put forward. (Bounded by rules and procedures)

 (Argumentation) a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of

persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.
an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.
 Discussion and Argumentation VS Debate

 Discussion is conversation about a topic, or

thematically similar topics. Arguments
and Debates are both types of discussions.

 Debate is competitive arguing, and as such, there's

a winner and loser. (quora.com)
WHY DEBATE?

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 Importance of Debate

 Debating helps you to develop essential critical

thinking skills – the ability to make reasoned and
well thought out arguments in addition to
questioning the evidence behind a particular stance
or conclusion.
 is important because it develops skills and
knowledge. It helps the students to become a
confident and bold person. And it will help the
students to develop a political identity or own
identity like a debater .
 Importance of Debate

 Improves Knowledge

 Confidence

 Critical Thinking

 Public Speaking

 Organization
Asian Parliamentary Debate
Format
 Basic Rules

 30 minutes Preparation time

 7 minutes speeches
 Two teams of Three (Government and
Opposition)
 Points of Information(below)
 Veto
 Reply Speech
 Motions

 Motions are the topics to be debated

 In parliamentary debating, “This House” is used to
describe the assembly of debaters.
 THW = This House Would
 THBT = This House Believes That
 THR = This House Regrets
 THC = This House Celebrates
 THS = This House Supports
 THO = This House Opposes
 Motions

 Examples
 THW Legalize Prostitution

 THBT “Woke culture” has done more harm than

good

 THS Federal form of government

 THO Organized Religion

 Types of Motions
 Policy  Open

 THW Legalize  THW Incentivise

Women
Prostitution
 Semi-Open
(Operationalization)  THW Incentivise
 Value Judgement Women who will join
Law Enforcement
 THBT “Woke
agency
culture” has done  Closed
more harm than  THW Incentivise
good. Women who will join
PNP
 The Veto

 In each round of Asian Parliamentary debates,

debaters are given a set of 3 motions

 The teams would rank the motions with 1(as their

favourite), 2 and 3(least favourite)

 The rankings of the opposing teams will be

added, and the motion that gets the lowest score
will be debated
 The Veto

For Example

Gov’t Veto Opposition Veto

Motion 1 3 2 =5
Motion 2 2 1 = 3
Motion 3 1 3 =4
 The Veto

 A score of 3 is an Automatic Veto

Gov’t Veto Opposition Veto

Motion 1 3 1 =4
Motion 2 2 2 = 4
Motion 3 1 3 =4
 The Veto

 Coin Toss, Winner will debate their “1”

Gov’t Veto Opposition Veto

Motion 1 3 3 =6
Motion 2 2 1 =3
Motion 3 1 2 =3
 The Debate Flow

Government Opposition

Prime Minister(PM) 1st 2nd Leader of the Opposition(LO)

Deputy Prime Minister(DPM)3rd 4thDeputy Leader of the Opposition(DLO)

Government Whip(GW)5th 6thOpposition Whip(OW)

Government Reply(GR)8th 7thOpposition Reply(OR)

 Points of Information

 Interjections offered to speakers

 Could be used to ask questions, state facts that may cast a

shadow or doubt in the argument, point out inconsistencies

 Can only be raised between 1st and 6th minute of speaker’s speech

 MUST only last for a maximum of 15seconds

 The speaker has the right to decline a POI offered to him/her

Cagayan Valley Debate Union

SPEAKER ROLES
 Prime Minister

 Defines the motion

 Sets Up the Debate

 Context – why are we debating?
 Policy (Present Problem and Policy/Policy only)

 Value judgement (stance)

 Characterization of important actors in the debate

 Presents 1-2 arguments

 Prime Minister(Tips)

 Stating your Policy is equivalent to defining in

Policy debates

 Can’t rebut? Try to be pre-emptive and

comparative as much as possible.

 As much as possible, argue Necessity (why do we

need to do this?) and Legitimacy (is this the right
thing to do?)
 Leader of opposition

 Presents the team’s Clash

 Counter-prop
 Status Quo/Re-contextualization

 Counter-Stance

 Rebuts the Arguments of PM

 Presents his/her argument/s
 The only speaker who can challenge the definition
 Leader of opposition (Tips)

 As a team, it is important to decide whether or not

the Opposition agrees that there is a Problem that
needs to be solved or none. This should be made
clear in the LO’s speech.

 Re-contextualization is likely to be necessary when

running an Status Q case (extents, counter-trends,
etc.)
 Deputies (DPM and DLO)

 Rebuts any or both of the previous opposing

speaker

 Rebuilds the Arguments of their PM/LO

 Extends their team case

 Deputies (TIPS)

 When Rebuilding your teammate’s case, also revive

the arguments that were not responded by the
opponent

 Be flexible to what the team needs

 Devote your prep time in helping to build the First

Speaker (PM/LO) speech
 Whips (GW and OW)

 Rebuts the cases presented by the opposing

speakers

 Identifies Issues and resolves them in their

team’s favor

 NOT allowed to present new arguments

 Reply Speeches

 A biased adjudication of the debate

 Lasts 4 minutes

 Usually discusses technical aspects of the debate.

(I.E. a lack of a clear policy, missing links in
argumentation, unresponsiveness of the opposing
team, etc.)
 ***Opponents can no longer raise POI
 Prep Tips

 Don’t write your speech down.

 Brain Storm
 Why are we debating?

 Why support/oppose motion?

 Give time for yourself

 Devil’s Advocate
 General tips and tricks

 Be adj friendly (sign posting and usage of transition

words)
 Throw a burden to the next speaker

 Introduce your arguments using questions

 Think of the team’s first POI during prep

 ALWAYS ask for constructive from your adjudicator

 Never forget to HAVE FUN. 

Thank you! ;)