Just came down here to get fat from Papasito's and drink all the mango juice mah momma will buy me. LOL JK. Naw, I had some pretty good competition on debate rounds down here, but you probably wouldn't believe me about the tournament's faults if I directly told you with no contentions. Being a debater, I MUST give you all three :) It will be a lot like...exempt rounds! First of all, the topic: Was the tournament at Kempner HS a good experience? My answer, is yes because of the following three contentions: more bonding time with the debate fam fam, more practice on LD, and looking at other hot debaters from Houston because hot guys in Dallas almost never join debate. Not fair. ANYWAYS. So yeah, my experience was actually pretty good, despite how the team looks down on it. I've only been to two other tournaments, and they were definitely better experiences, but I'm content with my overall trip. Oh, and if you're wanting an explanation for each of my contentions, you're probably not going to get one, as a result of it being 11:30 PM and me being so beat up and tired.... WELL ONWARDS SHALL WE?
The WHS Debate team looks down upon this experience because, well, apparently, this school doesn't really like us. They have a good reason to believe so, too. The parents knew the kids we competed against, and since parent judges are normally inexperienced, they pick the team they knew best and the team that basically spoke faster and looked more professional. Understandable. I mean, even if our team doesn't speak at 125 words per minute, at least we understand out cases and debate validly. They showed a powerpoint with pictures of ALL the other school showing, only not ours. Uh. Sorta understandable. Perhaps they just forgot about us, I mean, it's not like they've really heard of us as much as the local schools, cause c'mon, we live like 5 hours away. No one is expected to know schools at such a far distance. Lastly: They accused Ishrat (a VERY highly respected member of our debate team, pro LDer) of plagiarizing her oratory speech. WOW. THAT JUST SET ME OFF, YOU KNOW? I WAS JUST STANDING THERE GOING, "ARE YOU FURREALS NOW? ARE YOU LEGIT?!?!?!" because number one: Ishrat would never plagiarize! It's Ishrat! She's probably been working on that piece since the beginning of the year! No joke! Secondly, they accused her because she came up with a similar conclusion to another speech done a few months ago. Okay, how does this judge remember that speech from a few months ago, and is it weird that two students AGREE on a topic? I mean, WHAT IS THIS? REALLY? It's as if one were to say "Oh, chocolate is the best ice cream flavor." and another person goes "No! Strawberry is!" and then the third person goes "no, chocolate is the best." The judges would be saying that person three plagiarized person one. How does that even make sense? Thirdly, HOW WOULD A STUDENT LIVING FIVE HOURS AWAY, PLAGIARIZE SOMEONE FROM HOUSTON WITHOUT EVER MEETING THE "ORIGINAL AUTHOR"? ARE YOU FURREALS, NOW?! even I can see that is a big....fat...MISUNDERSTANDING THAT NEEDS TO BE UNDERSTOOD.