Motions from Round 2:
6pm – This House believes that the United States should not withdraw troops from Iraq
7:15pm – This House regrets that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize
8:30pm - This House would impose a tax on large bonuses paid to bankers
Results of Round 2 coming soon.
The NUS Challenge Shield 2010 Preliminary Rounds were held on the 20th of February 2010. The results & motions are as follows:
Motions:
Round 1: Children
THW ban child performers in circuses
THW make the age of consent relative to the parties involved
THW punish children for crimes committed by their parents
Round 2: Tertiary Education
THBT higher education should be funded by a graduate tax system
THW allow hate speech on campuses
THW make sex and race quotas compulsory in all tertiary institutions
Round 3: National Policy
THW nationalise all natural resources in the developing world
THW grant permanent residence to all illegal aliens
THW not allow religious political parties from standing in elections
SECONDARY SCHOOLS (winners are listed in bold)
Round 1
RI (Sec) vs RGSS
NYGH vs Cat High
HCI (Sec) vs CHIJ (St Nicks)
MGS vs ACS (Independent)
Round 2
RGSS vs ACS (Independent)
Cat High vs HCI (Sec)
RI (Sec) vs NYGH
CHIJ (St Nicks) vs MGS
Round 3
RGSS vs Cat High
CHIJ (St Nicks) vs RI (Sec)
NYGH vs MGS
ACS (Independent) vs HCI
Semi-Finalists:
Catholic High
Nanyang Girls High
Raffles Girls Secondary School
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
JUNIOR COLLEGE (winners are listed in bold)
Round 1
ACJC vs RI (JC)
ACS (Independent) vs SAJC
AJC vs VJC
SJI (International) vs HCI (JC)
Round 2
RI (JC) vs ACS (Independent)
VJC vs HCI (JC)
SAJC vs ACJC
AJC vs SJI (International)
Round 3
HCI (JC) vs RI (JC)
SJI (International) vs ACJC
ACS (Independent) vs VJC
SAJC vs AJC
Semi-Finalists:
Raffles Institution (JC)
Hwa Chong Institution (JC)
Anglo-Chinese Junior College
Victoria Junior College
The Semi-Finals will be held on the 27th of February 2010.
Random photographs taken during Prelim Round 1:
Motions for the First Preliminary Round:
1. This House would remove the compulsory mother tongue requirement in schools
2. This House would lower the voting age in national elections to 16
3. This House believes that Facebook and other social networking sites should only be open to individuals aged 16 and above.
Results from Prelim Round 1:
The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has, for the second time, run the Inter-School Budget Debate Challenge. Through the competitions, MOF hopes to promote greater student awareness of the Budget and public financing issues. MOF looks forward to invigorating debates and participation from debaters as well as quiz contestants.
The preliminary rounds for Secondary Schools and Junior Colleges were held on the 27th and 28th of January respectively. The videos for the debates are available at Razor TV – watch them to see how the teams did!
Razor TV Video: MOF Inter-school Budget Debate Prelims (Sec Sch)- 27 Jan 2010
Razor TV Video: MOF Inter-school Budget Debate Prelims (Pre-U)- 28 Jan 2010
The results are as follows: (winning teams are in listed in bold) (more…)
The Temasek Junior College U-16 Debate Invitationals was held on the 16th of January 2010.
The 3 preliminary round motions were as follows:
THW legalise performance enhancing drugs
THBT professional sportsmen are paid too much
THBT junk food companies should not be allowed to sponsor sporting events
The 4 teams who advanced to the Semi-Finals were: (in no particular order)
Raffles Institution
Hwa Chong Institution
Catholic High School
St Joseph’s Institution
The Semi-Finals & Finals were held on the 22nd of January 2010.
The Semi-Finals motion was:
THBT paralympians should not be denied the opportunity to compete at the Olympic Games
Catholic High bt. Hwa Chong Institution
Raffles Institution bt. St Joseph’s Institution
The finals motion was:
THBT Greece should be designated as the permanent host of the Olympic Games
Catholic High bt. Raffles Institution
Congrats to Catholic High, Champions of the TJC U-16 Invites 2010!
[Video recorded by Alfred Snyder]
More details (and the tab) will be posted soon… but in the meantime, congratulations once again to Sheng Wu (who debated for Singapore at WSDC formerly) on an amazing job!
The VJC Debate Invitational was first held in 2003 and has since grown to become an established part of the secondary school debating calendar. Conceived as a pre-season tune-up for schools looking to win the national title in April, it features 10 of the top secondary school debating teams engaging in several rounds of intense competition. Over the years, the competition has given many well-known faces in the debating community their first foray into the world of competitive debating. (more…)
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