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Asian Parliamentary Debate format |
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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# of people in the debate: 6
# of people in a team: 3
# of teams in the debate: 2
Duration of the speeches: Constructive and whip speeches 7 minutes, replies 4 minutes
Questions format: Points of information
This debate format is mainly used in the Asia (news Sherlock :D) and is also the basics of the World schools debate format.
The speakers speak in the following order:
Prime minister
Leader of opposition
Deputy prime minister
Deputy leader of opposition
Government whip
Opposition whip
All these speeches are seven minutes long. Prime minister presents the case, Leader of opp presents its own arguments and rebuttals the gov's, Deputy PM has also his own argument(s) and makes some rebuttal, of course he/she should not forget that she has to speak about the arguments of the PM and reafirm them. Deputy leader of opp has the same task, meaning new argument(s), rebuttal, own previous arguments. The government whip is allowed to present "new matter" but is advised not to, and the opp whip is not allowed to do that.
Now follow two reply speeches, first the oppositional and then the governmental reply. The speeches are given by the first or the second speaker from each side. The speeches should focus on the great ideas, arguments, clashes in the debate and present them.
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Lincoln/Douglas Debate Format |
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
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# of people in the debate: 2
# of people in a team: 1
# of teams in the debate: 2
Duration of the speeches: The times are different from speech to speech, and are marked at the speeches
Questions format: Cross examination
This debate format derives directly from the US Presidential debates. It is a bit different, especially from the timing of the speeches. I have no information if it is being used for tournaments anywhere in the world, but it is used for training.
Format:
1st Affirmative constructive - 7 minutes
Cross examination - negative asks affirmative - 3 minutes
1st Negative constructive - 8 minutes
Cross examination - affirmative asks negative - 3 minutes
Now follow the so called rebuttal speeches. The debaters should not present new arguments, but are allowed to present new evidence.
1st Affirmative rebuttal - 4 minutes
1st Negative rebuttal - 7 minutes
2nd Affirmative rebuttal - 4 minutes
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American parliamentary debate format |
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
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# of people in the debate: 4
# of people in a team: 2
# of teams in the debate: 2
Duration of the speeches: 7 minutes constructive speech and 3-4 minutes closing speech.
Questions format: Points of information
Short description: This debate format can be described as a half of the British parliamentary debate, because the roles of the speakers are the same as on the first table of BP. Extra, the first speaker of each team has a shorter speech, similar to a whip speech in BP.
Used in: No idea, who debates this, we are using it for practice and there are one or two debate tournaments using it (Katowice open 2007 used it).
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