Is this a Debate?

The NCS Debating Team has been selected to represent the school for the inter-school debating competition at the Army School on Wednesday.
As of what I know so far, is that the team, comprising of 3 members are to report at the Army School Auditorium at 8am on 21st.

There were so many candidates for the auditions. For some reason though, I felt that the "everyone should participate" factor was given more importance than the "best speaker" factor.
What i mean to say is that, it's an inter-school competition, we need to send the best out there to compete, not the juniors.
They have 3 more years in school while those in 12th have barely 3 months left.
Besides the rules are funny. One speaker from the Team speaks for the topic while the other speaks against..(wierd but true)...the other member simply interjects and questions the other team on their speech.
What is this? This definitely isn't a debate. No comments from my side...And yes....the topic is:"MEDIA DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD"....and we are going to speak FOR and against the topic...(wierd again...but true)

I still feel that I'm missing out on something...umm....oh yes....the Team.

1st Speaker : Arati Nair
2nd Speaker : Vipul
Interjector : Sanchit
Backup : Baldeep

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