BLOCK AND TACKLE

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BLOCK AND TACKLE

Instructions:


    A participant is given any random topic and instantly has to speak, “for or against” the topic. In a duration of 5 minutes whenever the judge commands ‘switch’, the speaker will have to toggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ multiple times thereby contradicting the previous statements. Loaded with instantaneous humor, the speaker is evaluated by spontaneity, humor, content and of course audience response.



    Block and Tackle is a break from the conventional form of debating.Here,you need to speak both for and against the motion.You start off speaking for the motion and when the moderator says 'block' you need to reverse your motion, and 'tackle' would mean to return to your original motion.For example, if you are given  a topic " A soldier contribute more to a nation than a farmer", I start off with saying for the motion , but as soon as the moderator says 'block', i would reverse my motion and speak for farmers.