My first time at a debate

Hey and welcome back to 'diaryofanoverthinker'. So today I'm going telling you about my experience at my first debate ever. Honestly I have a few things to say and I can't wait to share them. So sit back relax and enjoy!

Extra Information

ok so as I said this was my first debate but it was also everyone else's as its the first time we took part in an AMS debate. So obviously we didn't entirely know how to worked or what we were supposed to do. Another thing that made everything quite complicated was that AMS debates work slightly different and the school who was hosting the whole event(JMS) had proper training and weren't very helpful on the whole assisting the schools who didn't know what to do.

Due to all this we already knew our chances were slim but if we did get into the finals it would be completely awesome. We also knew that whatever happened we probably would've been really good considering all of the above information.

The actual debate

Ok so the actual debate was fairly good I can't lie. Considering it was our first time I think it was pretty solid and while I don't know the exact score I think we probably lost by very few as we only had a slight mess up towards the end. All in all I think we did amazing and I'm really proud of my team.

The only thing that I thought was really hectic was the amount of POI's the proposition was giving us. A lot of the time it came up later on in their speech which was a bit annoying to the speakers but at the same time I guess that is the whole point.

The overall experience

Despite loosing our level I'm still glad I went as it's an experience that you wouldn't have if you didn't try it and it's one that I don't think I'd forget. I mean most of the time I spend there was fun, we got to see other schools with other kids, have an amazing bus ride, see what a debate is actually like oh and have free pizza :). Quiet honestly I'd go again next year if we take part and I'll be more prepared. All in all it was really fun and memorable experience and I'm glad I went.

Final comment

So all in all it was a fun experience, I'm sad we lost but also incredibly proud of how well we did based on our lack of experience. I'd definitely go again and try and take part in more conceptions similar because the experience last forever and I'd rather be able to say I went for all these competitions and had so much fun instead of saying I just went to school and did normal classes every single day.

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