Speech and Debate

You might think it odd for a pessimist to be in speech and debate, and not in some dark alleyway off of a ghetto street, but I'm actually pretty good at it. For example, whenever my opponent brings up a plan or a suggestion or something like that, I can immediately see everything that's wrong with it. There are some perks to being a pessimist, despite the fact that they're few and far far far between. you might also think it strange that a pessimist would excel at an ethical form of debate. This form is called Lincoln-Douglas, based on the debates between Abe Lincoln and Steve Douglas. Since most of those debates were on the morality of slavery and such, they named a style of debate after them. Anyway, it's my favorite style, and all of your points (or "contentions") have to have ethical impacts. It's freaking awesome. Erm, most of the time. The thing I hate about LD is that people think that anyone can do it. They can't. One guy I debated at my last tournament was just bad, and almost all the others were only fun because I got to tear their case apart before their very eyes (another link between pessimism and debate). I've only ever had two intelligent LD debates. Finals at one, and a hidden finals at another. I lost the former by a slim 2-1 decision from three judges, and won the latter with both of us sporting perfect speaker points and a compliment from the judge; "you guys should be in Senior Division!" I'm a freshman at my high school, and this is my first year debating. It's been mostly epic so far. MOSTLY.