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Team
and Speaking Time | Member | Role | Government 7
Minutes | Prime Minister (PM) | Build government’s case by
presenting a number of arguments. | Opposition 7 Minutes | Member Opposite (MO) | Introduce opposition arguments, rebut government’s case. | Government 7 Minutes | Minister
of the Crown (MC) | Introduce government’s final arguments, rebuild government’s original arguments and rebut opposition’s
arguments. | Opposition 10 Minutes | Leader of the Opposition (LO) | Introduce opposition’s final arguments, rebuild opposition’s
original arguments, and rebut government’s entire case. | Government 3
Minutes | Prime Minister (PM) | Rebuild critical aspects of
government case and sum up entire debate by showing why the government has won the debate. |
The following is a specific breakdown of the roles each speech must fulfill in the debate and the order in which
they occur: Prime Minister Constructive (PMC): - Introduce the issue by stating and briefly describing the problem you wish to solve.
- Make case statement, a one or two sentence outline of what exactly you, as government, propose.
- State your arguments. For each argument, state the point, state your arguments, then present your evidence.
Evidence can be anything, not just statistics. In fact, the more your case is based on logic, rather than
numbers, the stronger your case is.
- Conclude by summarizing your case. Talk about what is the most important
thing in this round.
Member of the Opposition (MO): - Take the case
the government presented and explain why their solution does cannot work, or why the problem doesn’t actually exist.
- Present a couple of new
independent arguments relating to the case. Again, like the PMC, remember Point-Argument-Evidence.
- Go through the PMC points and explain why they do hold up to scrutiny.
Minister of the Crown (MC): - Introduce an additional one or two substantive arguments supporting the
government.
- Go through the points presented by the MO and rebut them. Take issue with their assumptions,
challenge their premises, and tie the MO to the LO.
- Reconstruct the PMC points that were rebutted in the MO.
Clean up the mess left in the last speech and explain why the MO is wrong.
Leader of the Opposition (LO): - Introduce the bulk of the opposition arguments. If you can, try to maintain thematic
consistency.
- Reconstruct the arguments presented by the MO.
- Go through each Government point and destroy them. Challenge the logic, the assumptions, the feasibility, etc. At the end, all of the strong Government
points should not be standing.
- In the final three minutes, present a final rebuttal. Go through the round thematically, and explain why the Government
cannot win the round. Refute the Government’s strong points and highlight your strong points. Explain why you deserve to win,
Prime Minister Rebuttal (PMR): - Take the two or three strongest
points against you and rebut them.
- Conclude by returning the debate to the thematic principles you outlined in the PMC.
- Explain why
you win.
- Note that no new arguments can be presented in the PMR.
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