nan | 楠木

Day 2, and everything is on schedule! Definitely a good job by the orgs. Deserves praise.
Round 4, and the motion was that the payment of ransoms should be criminalized. We get opening opposition. I thought it was a good debate we made, though we were definitely overshadowed by closing opposition, who took every one of our arguments and took it one step further. At first I thought it was just a mere repackaging of our ideas with some big concepts and words; on second thought I decided that they did take the analysis deeper. I was very impressed. We got 2 points out of this round.
Round 5, and a debate on Quebec independence. Unfortunately we were Opening Gov, which meant we had a really bad round, just basically setting up the round for all later teams to bash us in. Closing Opp was HKU, and though it appeared that they didn’t know too much on the issue either, because of the more favorable position they were in, they were able to provide some stuff to the round and get on top of us. Another 0 pt game for us.
Round 6, and a debate on whether inherited wealth tax should be abolished or not. We were Opening Gov again. We didn’t do very well, but it was lucky that fellow Asian teams in OO and CG didn’t do much either. CO basically shut down all our arguments, and especially capitalized on one of our mistakes, regarding the social contract between the gov and the individual. Fortunate 2 pts from a lousy round I guess.
And that got us to 7 pts after 6 rounds. Basically meets my expectations. I was quite happy that we were improving our performance.