What an amazing display of incompetence! Why is it that every time you and your partner come up with a great case, some moron destroys it by not understanding its essence. It's becoming really irritating, but you manage to control that anger. You restrain yourself, for you know that some day the Lord will take out his fiery sword and strike down his foes with great vengeance. You know that he will summon his angel of death and bring down his wrath and great anger to all those that didn't believe in him in times of trouble.

As these thoughts race through your head, you realise that this is a debate. Such things have no place here, at least not in this tutorial. You don't believe in those divine retribution mambo-jumbo anyway, so you decide to banish those thoughts and concentrate on how to sway the debate back to your side of the house.

You are the last person to speak from your team. Once your speech is over, there won't be much you can do, sort of points of information, to change the outcome of this debate. This makes you responsible of gaining favorable impressions for your team. You'll have to do all the dirty work, to cover up on any of your partner's mistakes, and to make sure that your case is strong enough to withstand all subsequent blows. One of the first things you can do, is to restate your partner's definition. Clarify everything and make sure the case is crystal clear to everyone. After doing so, you can move on to accuse the other side of trying to frappe the orange, to muddle the round, by purposely misinterpreting your case.

It is crucial that you clash all of the points made so far by the opposition. This is your team's last chance of easily responding to their arguments. One safe way of going about doing this, is to rebut one by one all of the opposition's arguments. That will hinder the next speaker when he'll be building up on his partner's arguments, and save you from the potentially hazardous situation where a harmless argument develops to a huge thorn in your case's backbone. Along with effectively nullifying all of the Opposition Leader's speech, you should give the next speaker a lot do deal with in his speech. Though you can't do much about the second half of the debate, you can certainly crush the Opening Opposition team by baffling their last speaker with some reasoning he can not clash.

That's it! You can't do much more than that! When your team is offers a strong and clear case, fully backed up by solid reasoning, while all along providing effective responses to all of the opposition's arguments... You can't expect anything else but high marks. Your team will be fulfilling its role in the debate.