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.
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.
MOE has published an online article about Fuhua Secondary’s debate team, and their experience in the SSDC 2009 (co-organised by DA(S) and JG).
Division 1
Champions (7 votes to 2 votes)
Raffles Institution (Secondary)
1st Runner-Up
Hwa Chong Institution (Secondary)
Motion: This House believes that acts of civil disobedience are justifiable
2nd Runner-Up (6 votes to 3 votes)
Methodist Girls’ School
3rd Runner-Up
Singapore Chinese Girls’ School
Motion: This House would ban the use of animals for entertainment (more…)
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