Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Opposition is the topic of today’s video. “Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Opposition (Third & Fourth Speaker)” is the 5th class of our new series “Introduction to English Debating”. We are currently publishing a series called “Introduction to English Debating”.
Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Opposition
During any speech except the reply speeches, and not during the first and last minutes of the first six speeches, members of the opposing team may offer points of information to briefly interject a point that the speaker must immediately respond to. The speaker holding the Floor is not obliged to accept all the points of information offered to them but is likely to be marked down by adjudicators if they do not accept any. Speakers delivering points of information are expected to keep them to 15 seconds or less.
Although a speaker’s points of information do not have a direct effect on their mark, a mechanism named the “POI Adjuster” has been introduced in recent years: when the quality of a speaker’s POIs is significantly different (better or worse) from the quality of their speech, the judge may add or subtract one or two marks from their overall speaker score. The first and last minute of each main speech, as well as the entire duration of reply speeches, are “protected time”, meaning that no points of information may be offered.
The World Schools Style of debating is used not only at the World Schools Debating Championships but also at a number of national and regional high school-level debating competitions around the world. At some of these tournaments, the format is varied slightly. For example, at some competitions, the length of speeches is reduced to five or six minutes for main speeches and three minutes for reply speeches. Some tournaments intended for novice-level debaters also do not allow Points of Information.
In the early years of the World Schools Debating Championships, there was a two-minute break between the main speeches and the reply speeches to allow the team members to confer, though this is no longer the case. However, some national or regional World Schools Style tournaments still have this two-minute break, and in some cases, members of the team’s squad for the competition who do not speak in the debate are allowed to come out of the audience to confer with the speakers during these two minutes.
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