Another Double victory!

We did away with SJC on the 24^th of October by beating them twice in a row. (I’m starting to like these double wins....!) These two debates were the last two debates for the league...after almost 6 months and 14 debates...we are finally done!

The first debate was a prepared one which we opposed (topic: THBT china should ratify the post Kyoto protocol) the second debate was an impromptu (we hosted both debates at the conference room) on the topic THBT peace is more important than Justice....which we proposed and went all philosophical with. As mentioned before we won both these debates.

These wins were absolutely crucial as SJc was ahead of us, but...well....Not anymore!! These two wins put us in second place, which means we have qualified for the finals! Find the current points table here:http://thedebaterscouncil.blogspot.com/

Well boys...seriously good job. Remember how we imagined this...well.....it came true!! And you guys made sure it did...so good job guys!..........but we also have the big one ahead of us. So as we celebrate and take a rest from all this which I think you guys deserve, we should also remember what’s ahead of us.

I would also like to thank Suganthi Teacher and Shanthi teacher for taking their weekends off to be there on the days we hosted the debates. And also of course everyone who helped us along the way....Khabir, Jeremy, Thanuja, Amirthajeewan, Amaan,Nishan and Nichula (Hope I’ve mentioned everyone!) Thanks a lot guys....we would never have gotten this far without you guys.

Maleen

This House Believes that the state should intervene to uphold intra-party democracy

This was the topic on which we debated St. Thomas' College at the finals of the Lilian Nixon Challenge Shield Debating tournament, organised by Ladies' College. I shall not mention anything more about the finals, as I always love seeing the sunny side of things and the finals was anything but sunny for us. As the judges put it "the debate was not an epitome of the standard of debating seen throughout the tournament", and personally I feel we were to blame for that.

Now, coming to the sunny side, which is everything that happened before the finals. We started out by debating our own sister school, by proposing the topic "THW legalise polygamy", where we won the debate and also won the place of "male chauvinists". Following that, we debated against a weight restriction being imposed on models, and won against St. Joseph's College (B). The third debate was against St. Thomas' College where we opposed privatizing university education and lost.

The next day, at the quarter finals round, we managed to secure victory against Ananda College by banning parties with names that included religious or ethnic references. Then at the semi finals we beat Vishaka Vidyalaya and justified Obama winning the nobel peace prize! And then came the finals, and the big audience and the defeat, which is better left in the past. 

We would like to congratulate St. Thomas' College on their victory and also David, who won the best speaker award. But above all, we are grateful to the Debating Society of Ladies' College for organising such an awesome, fun-filled debating tournament! :)

Impromptu debating tournament, by Musaeus College

Our team took part in the impromptu BP style tournament organized by Musaeus College………….Though lacking our battle hardened 3rd speaker we put up a good show at the tournament. Chris was out so we got Shazad to be our third speaker.In the first round we beat DS by a large margin. After this we went against STC twice and lost both the times with small margins. At the end of the 3 preliminary rounds we were in a good position in the rankings and so we went on to the semi –finals, where we were matched against STC AGAIN!! . We lost this debate as well, with a margin, as one of the judges put it, “small beyond your wildest imagination” however at the end of the day we were quite impressed at our own improvement in the course of the tournament and pleased with our performance against DS and STC. We would like to specially thank the debating society of Musaeus College for inviting us to their tournament. We also wish to congratulate CIS who eventually won the Championship.

Sithira