(C ) Debating
activity: Polish Schools Debating Championships
date: 28th February - 1st March 2020
organization: Fundacja Polska Debatuje
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This weekend was the Polish Schools Debating Championships. The most important debating event of the year, that we have been preparing so heavily for. There were so many emotions during this tournament, but I’ll tr to sum it up.
We didn’t win, we got stopped at the semi finals. The cause are many things combined: many new people on the team, out first tournaments as a team, the general level of the tournament was better than last year, personally I was also very stressed and couldn’t think clearly. This was very difficult to deal with, especially because of the expectations I had. There was also a veyr stressful situation, where in the first round we were put against the other team from Raszyńska, which meant one of us would lose a point for sure. I wanted to win, but I also rooted for the others. Finally, we won that round. However, overall I believe we did a great job, especialy considering that 75% of the team started debating this year and we still got to the semi finals.
(I forced them to wear pink ties)