Debate!

This week we went to Villa María Academy to participate in debate. In this occasion, we had to be prepared to face Nido de Águilas and The Grange. In my case, I participated in the debate against Nido, with Mr. Elgueta and Mr. Pavón. The motion was "This house believes that the Olympic Games have lost their focus", and for that we were against the motion, so we based our defense on the Olympics in many ideas, one of them being that the focus was and still is the athletes friendly competition. Sadly, we lost; but if I can rescue something of it, was that we didn't lose because of the arguments. It was just because of a misunderstanding in our job of opposition team. But that's something we can improve quite quickly, hopefully faster than the next debate. 

The other debate, with Mr. Jeria, Mr. Park and Mr. Elgueta, was about "International organisations are not as powerful as intended", and that was a prepared debate, against The Grange. They focused mainly on the mission statements of many international organisations, and that no organisation fulfilled their objective. This was really a close debate, but the judges told us that we focused the motion so that the other team couldn't discuss it. They recommended us to think about the presentation of the motion, and that it should be debatable for both sides. 




The next debate will be in a couple of weeks more, so I hope we can win and be in the finals!