Chapter 567: Group Stage
Hearing the "empathetic" persuasion of several students, the team leader teacher Huang was in a better mood. In fact, he, like several students, thinks that the Tao University debate team is a soft persimmon, at least, softer than their Huang University debate team.
But as the leader of the team, he naturally couldn't convey the idea of underestimating the enemy to the students, so he immediately turned grim and said: "Defeating Taoda is indeed our best chance to enter the top four, so you must do your best and don't have any thoughts of underestimating the enemy." ”
"Got it, teacher." The four debaters nodded their heads.
In fact, it is no wonder that the Sichuan University and Huang University debate teams both underestimate the Tao University debate team, who let the two opponents of Tao University in the online debate be the weaker debate team? If Tao University defeats strong teams such as Yan University and Xi'an Jiaotong University in the online debate, it is guaranteed that other debate teams will pay attention to it and put it in the position of the first enemy.
However, it is actually advantageous to be despised by the opponent in the game, so although Liu Meng relied on his extraordinary ear power to hear these discussions about the Taoda debate team, he did not mean to be angry, but smiled slightly.
According to the final mechanism of the National Collegiate Debate Tournament, the group knockout round is divided into two days, and a group stage is held in the morning (afternoon). Therefore, Group 3 of the Peach University Debate Team will not compete until tomorrow morning.
This morning, Group 1 was held, but the other three teams stayed in the Great Hall to watch the competition. Not only is it a requirement of the competition, but the debaters of the debate team are willing to do so - this is the best opportunity to observe the strength of the opponent. After all, even if you make it to the semi-finals in the group stage, there is still a title match.
In addition, watching someone else's debate match can also be beneficial to improve your own debate skills, especially those of the strongest teams. In this morning's competition, the most favored debate team is undoubtedly the Xi'an Jiaotong University debate team.
"The debate team of Xi'an Jiaotong University is very famous, and these four debaters have also shined in other debate competitions, known as the four swords of Xi'an Jiaotong University. Their debating style is also unique. Pay attention to iron theory, beautiful intentions, and fast pace. The best record was winning last year's Western Collegiate Debate Tournament. ”
During the break between the two debate competitions, Liu Meng told the students next to him about the Xi'an Jiaotong University debate team. In fact, several people have read the information of a strong team like Xi'an Jiaotong University before, but they don't remember it in as much detail as Liu Meng.
Liu Meng's left hand side is Gan Shuangshuang and Yu Xiaoxin, and on the right hand side are Bai Xiaofu and Dong Xiaoxian, and his speaking hand is slightly biased to the left hand, which even Liu Meng himself did not notice. Several students' attention was focused on the debate tournament and likewise did not notice this.
"Twenty years ago, at the International University Debate. The mainland debate team has lost to the Malaysian debate team for several consecutive years, and the Malaysian debate team defeated the mainland debate team by 'sitting and talking', which even made the debate groups of various universities in the mainland question the debate itself. Later, it was the debate team of Xi'an Jiaotong University that defeated the Malaysian debate team first, so that the debaters in the mainland would not completely lose confidence in the debate."
When Liu Meng took advantage of the debate competition to tell the students about the glorious history of the Xi'an Jiaotong University debate team, the results of the group stage in the morning also came out - the Xi'an Jiaotong University debate team lived up to expectations, defeated the same Nanjing University and Yan Normal University with strong strength, and directly qualified in the first group.
The debate team of Yan Normal University was slightly weaker, and it also lost to the debate team of Nanjing University and was directly out. As for the NTU debate team, which won one and lost one. You can only participate in the play-offs.
The game in the second group in the afternoon was quite exciting, because Fudan, Yanda, and Jiangda are all strong teams, and their strength is not weaker than that of Xi'an Jiaotong University. The three debating teams battled three times on the stage, but in the end they all ended up winning and losing one. Only all of them can participate in the play-off.
Although everyone expected such a result, they were still embarrassed.
On the morning of the second day of the finals, it was the third group of the Tao University debate team, and the first game was the PK of the Tao University and Huang University debate teams. And before the two teams debated. The rest of the debate team members in the audience couldn't help but talk.
"After watching the results of yesterday's Group 2 competition, and then looking at the several debate teams in Group 3 today, I suddenly feel that this method of drawing lots is fair. But it doesn't make sense. If you think about it, the three debate teams of Fudan, Yanda, and Jiangda, no matter which one is in this third group, will inevitably be able to qualify. ”
"The luck of the Sichuan University debate team is really good, and it is almost a certainty that they will enter the semi-finals with the two weakest debate teams of Tao University and Huang University. However, it is impossible to win the championship by luck alone. ”
"The most likely to qualify directly in the third group is undoubtedly the Sichuan University debate team, but guess which one of Taoda or Huangda may be eliminated directly?"
"I think Huang Da should be able to beat Tao Da, right? Although Taoyuan University passed the online debate, it seems to me that it is somewhat of a fluke. Moreover, it is the first time for Tao University to participate in this kind of debate competition, and they are inevitably inferior to Huang Da, who has participated in debate competitions for many years, in terms of training students' debating ability. ”
"Indeed, not to mention the new construction of Tao University, although it is somewhat famous, it is also in the school hardware and music education. In terms of debate, with all due respect, Tao Da must have come to play soy sauce this time. ”
"Hehe, don't just talk about who qualifies and who eliminates, maybe in the end, it's the same as the result of Group 2, and all of you will participate in the play-offs?"
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When the debate competition officially began, the discussion in the audience was gone, not only because the debaters automatically obeyed the order of the venue, but also because the performance of the Taoyuan University debaters on the stage was unexpected by everyone - in the opening statement, although Huang Dayi's words were also reasonable, but in the eyes of these debate masters at the scene, it was a big step behind Gan Shuangshuang's opening statement in the entry point of the debate.
Sure enough, when it came to the attack and defense session, the other three debaters of Tao University seized the loopholes in Huang Da's opening statement and issued one tricky question after another, which caught Huang Da's debaters off guard.
When it came to the free debate session, Huang Dayi's participation in the debate couldn't help but not save the decline, but lost the city and lost ground under Gan Shuangshuang's argument.
It can be said that the amazing performance of the debaters of the Tao University debate team almost stunned everyone present. It wasn't until after the final closing argument that the referee announced that Momo had won the game, and everyone watching came to their senses.
At this time, when I went to see the debaters such as Gan Shuangshuang of Tao Da, everyone's eyes were different. Among them, especially the eyes of the debaters of Sichuan University are the most exciting.
Because they hadn't seen the debate between Tao Dagan Shuangshuang and others before, the debaters of Sichuan University naturally thought that the other party was weak. But now it seems that the other party is not only not weak, but also very strong!
Ask yourself, for the debate question just now, even it is difficult for them to defeat the Huang University debate team so easily. More importantly, in the Tao University debate team, they saw the compelling momentum that only strong teams such as Fudan, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Yan University have!
[The second update of the guarantee arrives.] (To be continued.) )