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Introduction to Debating: Speaker Roles

Introduction to Debating: Speaker Roles. DBAT 101. Debating as a team. Teamwork is important. Greater consistency reinforces your team message. Allows for sustained engagement with opposition. Teamwork requires: Communication during prep and debate.

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Introduction to Debating: Speaker Roles

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  1. Introduction to Debating: Speaker Roles DBAT 101

  2. Debating as a team • Teamwork is important. • Greater consistency reinforces your team message. • Allows for sustained engagement with opposition. • Teamwork requires: • Communication during prep and debate. • Everyone knowing what the issues and objective are. • Building upon what previous teammates have said. • Comparing your teams responses with opposition. • Role fulfilment.

  3. First Speaker: Chef. • Role: To setup the debate and establish your teams position on key issues. Prepare the goods. • Setup and Intro: • Context. Problem. Model. Why are we having this debate? What do we need to do? About 1-2 minutes. • Arguments: • Usually start with a principled reason of why the model is a good idea. Why your process/outcomes is ‘Just’ • Better outcomes. As many as possible. Rank by importance. • Conclusion. We love this.

  4. Second Speaker: Waiter. • Role: Characterise the clash between teams. Respond to the opposition. Set the mood. • Characterise the debate. • Try to summarise where both teams stand on issues. What are the contested areas? • Rebuttal is key. • Only have limited time. 3-4 minutes(ish). • Therefore, prioritise. Aim for efficiency and importance. • Arguments: • Have (at least) one. Try to feed into a new issue or direction.

  5. Third Speaker: Dishwasher. • Role: To weigh up both sides and claim issues. Add final debate winning analysis. To clean up the mess. • Provide a framework of evaluating the debate. • Summarise into 3 issues/questions. Try to capture the entire scope of debate and the clash. • Track what speakers have been saying. Put them into the relevant issues/question. • Claim issues. Buck stops here. • Weigh up and explain why your team won that issue. • Add additional analysis/reasons/examples. • Frame issues. • Prioritise issues by importance. Characterise the issues you’ve won as particularly important or central to the debate.

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