Let’s Chek The Wider Kinds of Debate System Out!

Hey argUMenters! Nice to see you! I hope in our new organisation structure , we can find fresh idea for give real action for argument and new spirit to lead the way we think.

Well, it always great to talk how a debate going, what happen in it’s flow and what information can we get on it. But in this section of  “Summarize Of Debate” column on our pride newsletter “Voice of argUMent”, I will show  you flash information about basic thing in debate before. So, in the next section, you will take more interest in read the persistencee of a debate.

I believe, as an argUMenters, you at least ever hear about “parliamentary system”. It is sometime called “parli” in the US. This system commonly show individual competition in a team format. In parliamentary debate system, there is a new resolution for every round of debate that form on persuasiveness, logic and wit. It is devided to be 3 kinds of parliamentary debate system. Australian Parliamentary System which is consist of 2 teams with 3 persons for each team and there is no POI,  Asian Parliamentary System that shows a debate competition with the same rule but POI is abble here, and  British Parliamentary System which is consist of 4 teams and there are 2 persons for each team. The teams are Opening Goverment, Closing Goverment, Opening opposition and Closing Oposition.

Do you know? Beside parliamentary debate system, there are many kind of debate system. Team policy debate, which is oldest and the most popular debate system in highschool, is consist of 2 peoples in proposition team (Affirmative or aff) and two peoples in opposition team (Negative or Neg). There are 8 speches in a round of team policy. The first four speeches are constructive speeches and the last four are rebuttals. Licoln-Douglas Debate, which  is a reaction to the excesses of team policy debate in highschool,  is focused on disscussing the merits of competing ethical values in a presuasive manner. L-D debate is consist of five spechess and two cross-examination periods. The most interisting is that Affimative (preposition) have more speeches that Negative (Oposition), but they have same total speaking time. Another one is NDT (Nasional Debate Tournament) debate system. It is commonly just like a team policy debate in college level. Because they exactly have same team, format and style. CEDA (Cross-Examination Debate Association) debate system, which is a newer from college level, ia also a reaction to a team policy debate. It has similiar structur with NDT. The difference is CEDA not always give policy-oriented resolution like NDT. There are many other debate system such as Mace Debate, Australasia Debate, Asian Universities Debating Championship, Classical Debate, Extemporaneous Debate, Karl Popper Debate And Public Forum Debate.  But I think we wont have enouht space  to write them all here. However, our topic in this edition must be increase your interest in debate and improve your knowledge, isn’t it? Just remember, don’t be shy, stay confident and........... keep spirit (^_^)v... fighting!!! See you!!! (B Nila Sari N, from various sources)