(teach) debate, university, and FLTRP cup

[Dave-208]

>Here they are still talking about American Parliamentary style for the 2010
>competition because H1N1 fears forced the cancellation of pre-contest
>adjudicator training in the British Parliamnetary style

Oh dear I adj one BP style and it's not nearly so interesting, because the
Prime Minister and Leader Oppn don't get to make a second speech. And it's
harder to judge :-) And it's longer... but it gets more teams speaking per
day, which might attract FLTRP.

So.o.o H1N1 isn't going to force cancellation of BP style adj training?

Dave Nevin

[Russ Taylor-2]

--- In TEFLChina@..., "Dave" <nevin@...> wrote:

>>because H1N1 fears forced the cancellation of pre-contest
>>adjudicator training in the British Parliamnetary style

 

> So.o.o H1N1 isn't going to force cancellation of BP style adj training?
>
My comment:
It has already been cancelled and as yet there have been no further announcements on the website:

http://www.chinadebate.org

BP is much more entertaining in my opinion and much more demanding on the teams who can not simply reiterate what has already been said but must either be better prepared in order to develop the debate with new points and new substantive evidence or be better at paraphrasing than the average Chinese student currently is, based on my experience as an FLTRP Cup adjudicator.
With the lack of information I think that they will not be able to change to BP for May 2010, the adjudicators would not be able to judge the debates fairly without some training. This has been a controversial enough issue with AP which is much simpler to adjudicate, again, in my opinion.
We will see...

Russ Taylor