Oh yes, time for a little story:
It was one of my first big debates and I was the only representative from the Young Greens and you other way more experienced debaters from other parties.
The system was that if you won a debate you could go to the next round but since the Young Greens had 1 representative instead of 3 I got the chance to immedialty go to the finalround.
The person I taking it up against was one of the best debaters from the Young Liberals. He had spread the rumour that I could not even be able to get to the finalround the "fair" way.
Anyway: he thought I was a bad speaker and he thought he could end me pretty fast. He was wrong, he was oh so terribly wrong.
I won it and he had a lessen thought.
Same HYE