Wow yesterday was tiring. O_o
My first debate tournament! I had to get up at 5am and we got to the tournament at 8am. I didn't get home until 10pm, and I was absolutely worn out by then.
It was pretty fun.
The first round was horrible though. >.> So Shriya went up and gave her speech, and then sat down. Then this Chinese guy get's up to say his speech, opens his mouth and speaks SO DARN FAST we couldn't even catch everything he said. According to Shriya, all she did was just watch him the entire 4 minutes- no notes- no comprehension. I took some really vague notes, but I couldn't come up with arguments against any of them. They crushed us during every crossfire and kept claiming our evidence had no proof and that it was anecdotal and that we weren't arguing against their contentions at all. IT WAS HORRIBLE. Shriya and I both admitted later that we wanted to just quit halfway through.
"k, no, whatever, you win, bye."
Yeah, it was bad.
The second round was much better. -.- Part of the reason was because instead of two tall, intimidating as anything guys we were up against two girls. I think it went pretty evenly, but the judge said they won. Whatever.
The third round... haha, we crushed them like the first round people crushed us. They were completely docile during the entire thing. I felt a little guilty, mostly when I actually used some of the same things the first round people did against us. Two girls.
The fourth round went pretty evenly too, but this one we won. It was up against a tall guy and a girl. The guy kept stuttering, and the girl kinda looked like she hated us during the debate. Like, aggressive.
So yeah. We didn't place. ^^ It was fun though, I suppose... Took all day. *sai*'
Yeah. k, bye.