本周，希腊世辩赛发布了15-16年全球BP赛制最新规则解释与辩手裁判守则，对BP赛事中常见的一些争议问题和灰色规则进行了明确的定义和阐释。

外研社思辨精英平台将为大家带来BP新规的精华摘要（第一部分-赛事规则相关）：

1、关于发言时间的明确规定，及裁判对超时辩手应采取的措施：    

Beyond 7 minutes and 15 seconds, judges are no longer permitted to take anything the speaker says into account.

2、关于POI的相关规则：

a.   提出POI时不能泄露内容：

To offer a POI a speaker should, if they are able to, stand and say “point of information,” “on that point” or “point”. They should not offer a POI by uttering anything which reveals the content of the POI before it has been accepted (by saying, for example “on the law” or “not at all!”).

但有一个例外：

Debaters sometimes offer points of information with the phrase “pointof clarification”, usually to the Prime Minister's speech, to indicate that they wish to ask a question about how the Prime Minister is setting up the debate, rather than make an argument.

b.   辩手不能未听完POI就插嘴说”I got your point”：

When a speaker interrupts a POIs before 15 seconds elapses the judge should assess this by determining the impact it has had on their responsiveness to the team asking the POI. If the offeror has been unable to ask a question in a meaningful way, it may be appropriate to treat the speaker as though they had not taken the POI.

c.   POI不是“自由辩论”：

POIs do not initiate a dialogue. Once the POI has been made/cut off, the debater making it sits down. They must wait the required time and offer a new POI if they wish to interrupt the current speaker again.

3、关于辩题释义：     

Debaters may not ask anyone other than a member of the Adjudication Core to explain any words in the motion. They may also not ask for any further assistance from the Adjudication Core beyond a simple definition of the word they are unfamiliar with.

4、队中一名辩手因紧急事由无法参加某场辩论时的处理方法：

In such circumstances, at the discretion of the Adjudication Core, the available speaker may still be allowed to participate in the debate on their own, giving both their team's speeches. This is known as‘iron-personing’.

From the perspective of other teams in the debate, and the judging panel, this team of one speaker giving both speeches functions just like a normal team – they may receive any rank in the debate from first to fourth, and will receive two speaker marks, one for each speech, and other teams in the debate will be awarded the other ranks as normal.

In the‘tab’ , the iron-personing team will receive zero team points, the absent speaker will receive zero speakerpoints, and the iron-personing speaker will receive a single speaker score, the higher of the two speeches they gave.