2025年度冠军赛JWSD冠军：清晰直接的论点更可能被裁判理解

不论是在PF辩论还是JWSD辩论中

一辩稿永远是团队的“基石”

它承担着建立核心论证框架的重任

其清晰度和说服力至关重要

在最初的几分钟内

就为整场辩论的走向奠定了基调

上一期的冠军稿件分享

我们为大家带来了2025年度冠军赛

PF双组别冠军的一辩稿和撰稿经验分享

那么

一篇优秀的JWSD稿件

又是如何炼成的呢？

今天，我们将通过一篇

2025年度冠军赛的JWSD冠军队伍的一辩稿

揭开优秀稿件的神秘面纱！

「青少年世界学校辩论优秀稿件展示」系列通过分享在NHSDLC青少年世界学校辩论（JWSD）中脱颖而出的选手组合的一辩稿件（部分）、选手的心得体会及撰稿建议，为大家提供撰稿思路参考。

2025NHSDLC 年度冠军赛 JWSD 冠军

Team: Massive Lizard Empire

McKinley Shi

上海中学国际部 G5

Eleven Zhao

香港汉基国际学校 G6

Lillian Ji

成都爱思瑟国际学校 G7

This house regrets the rise of short video industry.本院遗憾短视频行业的崛起
This house believes that the environmental move-ment should shame individuals for consumeristhabits (e.g. engaging in fast fashion)本院认为，环保运动应因个人消费主义习惯（例如：参与快时尚消费）而受到谴责

冠军稿件分享 | 2025年度冠军赛JWSD冠军：清晰直接的论点更可能被裁判理解

The case was collaboratively written by all three of us, with each person working on specific parts or ideas.

We started by discussing possible ideas as a group. We tried to go on approaches that were simple and could be clearly understood by the judges. In the process,we eliminated some ideas that were too complex or that we didn’t fully understand.

During our case writing,we faced several challenges. For example, sometimes we didn’t include enough mechanism and logic behind an argument, making it a bit hard to understand. We also faced dilemmas when we had to choose between arguments within the short four-minute speech time.

As a team, we preferredto run less complex arguments, as long as we could explain the mechanism and logic chain clearly. We prioritized this approach because we believed thatclear, straightforward arguments have a higher chance of being understood by judges.

Overall, the case writing process went well, and our team cooperated effectively.

Always first think of the set-up.This means you’re thinking about characterizing different objects and worlds in the motion beforehand, and weighing the likeliness of these things happening. This is important because it makes it hard for your opponents to just deny your arguments or outweigh them, because you can say that a certain actor wouldn’t have the incentive to do a certain thing. This makes case rebuilding and rebuttal much easier, because they can’t analyze that much after you have already given the logic for the reason of your argument in the constructive speech.
Have foresight.You shouldn’t write some arguments in the constructive speech that are either easy to rebut or don’t have huge impacts. Leave space for the rebuttal and summary speakers to rebuild and outweigh. The way you can do this is to let all the teammates participate in writing the case. When that happens, different viewpoints can help delete the arguments that are too easy to rebut. In our team, Eleven could generate most of the ideas, while Lilliana and I could quickly think of rebuttals for them, but when we thought of a strong enough mechanism for the argument, we settled for it. Make sure you work together, not always alone. Take time to talk with your teammates.
When you’re writing, have the number of words in mind.This means that the draft should be about 550-650 words, and you should practice your draft after you’ve written it. The way our team practiced was to have a meeting, and let everybody read the first speech, especially Eleven, our first speaker, and then everybody could make small edits to the speech draft to make it more precise.
Include analysis and mechanism.Don’t only have evidence or repeat your claim. This is not PF, so evidence isn’t that important. What’s important is that you have a logic link of what happens, why this is probably going to happen, and why it’s important. The way you do this is to first prove the mechanism for who the major stakeholder is in this argument and prove why they have the incentive and capacity for this to happen. Then you prove the impact, which is how this affects other stakeholders and society in general, based on different motions. Make sure you have the explanation, not just the sentence. After every idea, ask ‘so what?’ and ask ‘why?’.
Always do practice debates.Practice debates are very important, almost a crucial aspect, because they let you be able to work with your team, especially if it’s a new team. Next, practice debates are very important even if they are impromptu because, firstly, this helps prep for the tournament in general, especially with teammates, ideas, and how you like to work. Secondly, these debates help you have more engagement with the opponents, not just practice, which is a big aspect of JWSD. In prep cases, practice debates are also extremely important. They help you get many more ideas because hearing from different teams and debating ‘in the heat of the moment’ helps you reflect on strategies and ideas. This helps your mind get more diverse, and not just work on one single main idea. Practice debates train your mind.

（选自选手M1正方一辩稿件）

THR the rise of the short video industry.

本院遗憾短视频行业的崛起

Side: Proposition（正方）

Set-up: As proposition, we regret the rise of the short video industry. We will prove to you that our alternative, the long videos, are a better form of media, in both entertainment and information senses.Now, we bring up 2 layers of characterization. First, what does the rise of the industry look like? First of all, more short videos are taking over the screen time of users. Media platforms are giving less space to long videos and recommending more short videos. Second, more investors are catching on to the trend of short videos, and that will make the industry rise even more. Last, more users start shifting from long to short videos to watch, and this is because of everyone else watching them and more importantly because of the flashy and crazy content partnered with a very short-term attention span need. Therefore, what does our counterfactual look like? We believe that there is a direct trade-off, and that the counterfactual will be more people watching long videos in the time spared by short videos, and people watch more reliable and true content because they need to have more complete storytelling and requirements of artistic depth in order to keep users watching till the end of the 2-hour video.

Argument 1: Worse consumer mental health

a) Short videos decrease the critical thinking ability of the audience. They shorten the audience attention span, with videos that are only about 10 seconds to a few minutes. This shortness of the videos not only means the people would be conditioned to expect information in rapid succession within a very short period of time, it also means that people would get the information that is fragmented. Long videos usually encourage deeper engagement and discussion, while short videos just give the most flashy parts of the thing so that they could go viral. The impact of this subpoint is that it is harder for people to engage in long-form content Students become worse at learning, workers become less productive, and voters are easier to be misled by populism. This is very detrimental to the society

b) There is easier addiction to meaningless entertainment than to longer batches of informational videos. The designers have profit incentives to increase user stickiness. This is not likely to exist in long videos because they often require a large dedication of time and energy, thus usually come with user’s intentional viewing and tracing the logical progression mentally. Short videos will prioritize quick flashy hooks over actual teaching or storytelling. This is because the content creators are afraid that people who are not interested will scroll away immediately if they don’t like the content at first glance. The impact of this subpoint is that users get more anxiety, reduced productivity, and sleep deprivation as they get addicted even more.

Argument 2: Misinformation to the users

a) Short videos can cause misinformation to all of the users that watch it every day. We all know that in platforms where people all watch short videos, misinformation is a very key factor. People who want to get lots of money and watch rates tend to make catchy headlines and also lots of other different sensational moments in the short video. This would result in lots of people getting exposed to the sensational or fake information. The impact is that more and more people will spread this information resulting in making wrong decisions. For example, a catchy video that says “Lose 10 kg in one week” could talk about fatally dangerous dietary plans if they didn’t but the whole process in the video. You don’t know what peoples minds are thinking about, they might be thinking about some really harmful information, they might be thinking about I want to do this fake information but they don’t really know that it is fake.

c) This problem can get worse if the video gets more viral. Content creators must compress ideas into digestible snippets, in order to keep the audience focused. With much valuable information being omitted, in order to achieve this goal, they can’t just get valuable information all the time, this means that they will include some fake information. Psychological “Life-Hacks”/Political/News soundbite distortions are good examples of the case in real life. This will not happen in long videos since that it requires longer time and energy, and it is also based on more formal topics like news, history, debate, politics and many more, this means that the rate of misinformation will be deducted by a lot.

All in all, never prouder to be proposition.

作为正方，他们以更扎实的观点

更富现实关怀的观念与逻辑

赢得了裁判的认同并晋级

他们并未简单否定短视频的价值

而是聪明地主张平衡与多元

以此帮助青少年构建全面的认知

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