competetion is the necessary part of the education system for debate
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Some people get all the motivation they need from other sources and that's fantastic. But when you have a rival, someone doing the same thing as you, at a similar level, it forces you to try to out do them, to excel beyond what they've accomplished. Once you've done that, they usually will try to outdo what you've just done to outdo them, that process forces people to not just do what is required of them, but to do the best they can do. Consider Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Both of those technological genius' tried to do pretty much the same thing, but their competition brought products better than either one of them would have provided having no competition. If that doesn't work, then imagine a sports team that is far superior to all the other teams in it's league. They would not train as hard as a team that has a rival that is similar in talent, and due to that eventually another team would catch up to them by hard work, motivation, and competition.