Congratulations to the following teams for making it through to the Semi Finals (to be held at RI this Friday 16th Apr evening):
Division I
ACS (Independent)
Hwa Chong Institution
Raffles Institution
Catholic High
Division II
ACS (Barker Road)
Bowen Secondary School
St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary
Chung Cheng High (Yishun)
Division III
ACS (International)
Bukit View Secondary School
Kent Ridge Secondary School
CHIJ St. Joseph’s Convent
The following teams have qualified for the Quarter-Finals of this year’s Singapore Secondary Schools Debating Championships (teams are listed in the order in which they finished in the preliminary rounds league tables, with the number of debates the team won in brackets):
Division I
1. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (3)
2. Hwa Chong Institution (3)
3. Methodist Girls’ School (2)
4. Raffles Institution (2)
5. Catholic High School (2)
6. St. Joseph’s Institution (2)
7. Nanyang Girls’ High School (2)
8. Singapore Chinese Girls’ School (Secondary) (2)
Division II
1. Victoria School (3)
2. Bowen Secondary School (3)
3. St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary School (3)
4. Chung Cheng High School (Yishun) (2)
5. C.H.I.J. St. Theresa’s Convent (2)
6. Anglican High School (2)
7. Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) (2)
8. Global Indian International School – Queenstown Campus (2)
Division III
1. C.H.I.J. St. Joseph’s Convent (3)
2. Kent Ridge Secondary School (3)
3. Bukit View Secondary School (3)
4. Anglo-Chinese School (International) (3)
5. Orchid Park Secondary School (3)
6. Bedok South Secondary School (2)
7. Ngee Ann Secondary School (2)
8. Tanjong Katong Secondary School (2)
Full league tables for each division will be released after the championships concludes.
The top eight teams from each division will now move on in the quarter-finals on Friday 9 April.
I would like to congratulate all the teams involved in the championships for their performances in three hard-fought preliminary rounds.
The Grand Finals of the championships will be held on 23 April (Divisions II & III) and 30 April (Division I). All debaters and teachers involved in the championships will be invited to attend the Grand Final for their division. The top 20 speakers in each division (based on preliminary rounds speaker scores) will also be announced at these occasions.
Random photos from Prelim Round 3:
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:
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:
Dear Adjudicators,
We are approaching the start of another year full of exciting debate competitions. I know all of you learned a lot from your days as student debaters, and may have moved on now to bigger and more exciting adventures – but we still need you! Without the time and effort of our volunteer adjudicators, we would not be able to run any debate competitions at all. While we hope to continue training new adjudicators, I’m sure you remember how important it was for senior judges (especially those in university or working already) to come back and judge debates (and wow all the young debaters). I am thus asking you to please, please, spend a few minutes to fill up the form below and volunteer to adjudicate at the upcoming competitions.
To make it easier for adjudicators to turn up on time (especially for the 6pm SSDC prelim debates), DA(S) will be providing some limited taxi reimbursement. Details will be provided by email. If there is anything else we can do to make it easier for you to volunteer your time, please let us know.
Every year, after the SSDC prelim rounds end at about 9:30pm, some of the older judges and coaches head out and mingle over some snacks and drinks. This year, we want to encourage more of our adult judges and coaches (over-18) to join us after every prelim round. We will announce the venue for our little social event over email and remind everybody on the day itself. Let’s all get to know each other a little better this year. 
DA(S) will be holding a full-day adjudicator training session on Saturday Jan 16th at Tampines Junior College (2 Tampines Avenue 9, Singapore 529564). The training session will begin at 10 am and end at 5pm. There will be a one-hour break for lunch, but lunch will not be provided for participants.
The training will be provided free of charge and all trainees will receive a certificate of completion. All trainees must volunteer to shadow adjudicate the prelim rounds at the SSDC2010 in order to receive the certificate of completion and be considered for future adjudication opportunities [exceptions will be granted on a case-by-case basis only]. The shadowing is compulsory, as a theoretical knowledge of adjudication is insufficient unless complemented with real-world training and shadowing of senior adjudicators.
If you would like to register for the camp, please fill in the form below. As capacity for the camp is limited by the number of senior adjudicators available, we encourage all interested participants to sign up early.
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The 2010 SSDC competition is just around the corner, and we’re starting to get early requests for the rules and the tournament handbook. We’re putting the finishing touches and making a few minor tweaks to the rules for the 2010 SSDC handbook, but in the mean time, here is the handbook for the 2009 tournament. Please note that the new handbook will be sent to schools and will supersede any points in the 2009 handbook.
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