Singapore Debate Open Results

Hi everyone!

NUS would like to congratulate the winners of the Singapore Debate Open 2011, NUS 1, represented by Robin Teo and Imran Rahim, for yet another exciting performance along side Hello Kitty, represented by Sharmila and Tate; The Drowned Men, represented by Adrian Rabe and Sir Martin; and lastly, one and a half men, represented by Lee Jia Wei and Ashish Kumar. 

Here are the team rankings and speaker rankings. We hope to see you once again at Singapore Debate Open 2012!

 

Cheers,

Danielle, Leejing and Ashok

Co-Convenors

National University of Singapore

Singapore Debate Open 2011

We are pleased to announce the Adjudication Core of Singapore Debate Open 2011 (14th-16th December).

CA
Sadhana Rai - Australs finalist. Asians Champion, Top 10 Asian speaker, Australs Finalist judge

DCAs
1. Irzal Australs octo-finalist, Worlds ESL quarter-finalist, Asians quarter- finalist, Asians Finalist judge
2. Lucinda David CA of DLSU Worlds 2012, CA of Science Po Paris IV, Australs Finalist judge, Top Breaking team at Australs

We are also getting well-credentialed adjudicators down to SDO from around the region. The people who have agreed to come down so far with several of their numerous achievements listed are:

1. Ely Zosa - Worlds octo-finalist, Australs quarter-finalist, Asians 2012 DCA
2. Glenn Tuazon - Asians best speaker, Asians champion
3. Iqbal Hafiedz - CA of Australs, Asians best speaker
4. Jess Lopez - Worlds semi-finalist, Asians best speaker, Asians champion, Asians CA
5. Loke Wing Fatt – Worlds breaking judge
6. LP - Asians quarter-finalist, top ten Asians best speaker, multiple
Thai nationals champion
7. Nishita Vasan - Asians 2012 DCA, Asian BP 2011 DCA
8. Omar Salahuddin- Multiple Worlds & Australs finalist judge
9. Zheng Bo – Worlds breaking judge


We're in the process of getting more overseas judges and we're also drawing from our local experienced pool. We are endeavouring to ensure that every room for at least the first 3 preliminary rounds has a chair who has broken at an international tournament.

Although the tournament cap has been filled, we are looking to find ways to expand the tournament so we still welcome people to register  which can be done at this link https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFREaUoz...

This and other updates will be available on the website at  http://sdo2011.tumblr.com/ 

Do email us at singaporedebateopen2011@gmail.com if you have any queries. We look forward to seeing you at SDO 2011.

Cheers,
Ashok , Danielle, Leejing
Convenors SDO 2011

NUS win SMU Hammers

NUS 1 (Imran Rahim, Robin Teo and Sadhana Rai) have won SMU Hammers, Singapore's largest Asians Parliamentary tournament of 2011.

In the final they beat NUS Dino (Alvin Tan, Mark Cordiner, Alex Yeo)


*Semi Finalists*: Tokyo (Shuvam Dutta, Neha Prakash, Ang Wee Jian), Whateverla (Robin Lucas, Clarissa Tio, Adrian Rabe)

*Quarter Finalists*: NUS 2 (Aji Abu, Marvin Loh, Ashok Rai), NUS 3 (Leejing Tan, Sanjiv Nair, Jun Sheng), Commodities (Alfred Goh, Hong Yu, Shih Yi An), SMU 2 (Ang Ziqing, Vikram Lakhotia, Urmila Mandapaka)

*Octo Finalists*: SMU 1 (Andrea Soriano, Syed Arafat, Siraj Aziz), House of Zosa (Patrick Cocabo, Liane Aquino, Stephanie Tan), HCI JC 2 (Miverna Lim, Chelsea Chia, Joyan Tan), RI 3 (Eugene Phua, Gloria Cheung, Tan Zixiang), SP 1(Dennis, Zhengkun, Andrew), SP 2(Jose, Amanda, Felicia), Tel Aviv (Shaq, Lee Ming Yuen, Omer Iqbal)

*Top 5 Adjudicators: *Raymund Vitorio, Anna Arcellana, Tim Andrew, Reuben Lopez, Ray Singh

For more information visit http://groups.google.com/group/debateasia/topics