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Debate is a highly organized activity with sponsors such as the Oxford Union at the local, national, and international level.
Many North American colleges and high schools field teams that participate in competitive debate. Parliamentary debating is also popular in other parts of the world, including Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom.
"Parli" is conducted under rules derived from British parliamentary procedure. It features the competition of individuals in a multi-person setting. It borrows terms such as "government" and "opposition" from the British parliament. It is commonly used in Canada.
Parliamentary debating in Canada uses the following positions:
Some tournaments allow points of information, where an opposing team member may stand up and ask a question to the member who is debating. Depending on the country, there are variations in speaking time, speaking order, and the number of speakers. For example, in New Zealand, both the leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister offer a short summary as the last two speakers.
In the U.S., parliamentary debate is very popular in collegate competition, and has begun expanding on high school circuits. The National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) is the largest collegiate sponsor; the American Parliamentary Debating Organization is the standards body for the east coast. There is currently no national sponsor for High School Parli debate.
In Canada, the Canadian Universities Society for Intercollegiate Debating (CUSID) is the main umbrella organization for the university-level debating.
World Schools Style or WSS is a debating style fairly easy to learn, but very rewarding to practice. Each team has three speakers:
During main speeches, members of the opposing team may offer Points of Information to express a question or brief remark, these shall not exceed 23 seconds or three sentences. First and last minutes of main speeches as well as the entire duration of reply speeches are protected, that means, no Points of Information may be offered. There is no cross-interrogation . The Proposition has to prove the motion for a reasonable majority of cases , while it is not enough for the Opposition to present reasonable doubt . The debate is decided by ballotA ballot is a device used to record choices made by voters. Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots are not shared. In the simplest elections, a ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on which each voter writes in the name of a candidate, but governmental of the uneven number of judges (usually 7 or 9). The grading of each team member on a range of 0 to 100, where style/content/strategy are divided 40/40/20, is summed and the reply speech is counted as 0-50 points, 20/20/10.
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