OTW to 7th Seeds In Mood

Assalamu'alaykum warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh...

It is a few hours remains to the real combat at the 7th SIM (seeds in mood) hosted by SMAN 17 Makassar. To be honest guys, we are so grateful for having people like you all, we are so proud of what you guys tried to show us in the last hours of training. Firstly it was quite hard to ask you for some practice, but as time went by, we just realized that you were very enthusiastic indeed.

Due to limited quota provided by the committee, it's necessarily important for us to make some kind of selection. We were selectively choose debaters based on some criteria that we have discussed with teachers. And finally came 2 teams from first grader and a team from second grader. Congratulation for those who had been chosen. Yet we somehow need to give a big appreciation for the rest debaters who were not being chosen for representing our school in jubels. Never be too worried because we really just wanted to give you a real debate experience and prepare you for another event. Overall you did such a great job you know.

REBUTTALS

HOW TO PREPARE THE REBBUTALS

First, THINK ABOUT YOUR SIDE. Compare your position to your opponent's position. For example, "We are for single-sex schools; they are opposed to them."

Second, FIND THE ARGUMENTS THAT SUPPORT YOUR SIDE. Identify three or four key arguments that support your position. For example, "We are showing single-sex schools help girls learn more; Single sex schools prevent harassment against girls."

Third, IDENTIFY ANY OPPOSING ARGUMENTS THAT MIGHT DEFEAT YOU. Look at your flow, think about what the opposing team appears to be winning. For example, "Hmm, they are showing that single-sex schools reinforce gender segregation in society." NOW, THINK HOW YOUR ARGUMENTS DEFEAT THIS ARGUMENT. For example, "We showed single-sex schools help girls and thereby break barriers in society."

PRESENT THE REBUTTAL

Begin by IDENTIFYING THE CHOICE FOR THE JUDGE. "This debate boils down to, do you give students a choice to go to single-sex schools or do you stop that choice."

Then, LIST OUT EACH OF MAIN REASONS TO SUPPORT YOUR SIDE. Present your reasons, follow it with an explanation and supporting arguments. After this, respond to any opposing arguments that might undermine your argument.

PILOT and SECON

after the last 5 days of full passion, struggle, sadness, clashes and of course drama, we finally came to the final result of both pilot unhas and secon smada and bring something back to home 'LEC' at once, the category of achievements are: 1st Rank of debating (pilot), Best speaker (pilot), Champion and 2nd Runner up of story telling (secon).
We dont know what to say after all these things. Firstly it was the first time for LEC to attend different competition at once. Secondly it was just so awesome that we finally can reach the champion of each competition, and you know what? the secon's representatives were a hundred-percently newbie, they did something that even us cant do before.
So lets put a big hope to LEC now on, its only a matter of time before we can reach the major champion- a dream that we are very close to but it had just been stolen by SMA 3 Palopo, haaaa...!!