#1 National University of Singapore 1 (Imran Rahim, Robin Teo, Sadhana Rai) dominated the 2011 United Asian Debating Championships in Macao, taking home the main trophy and finishing the tournament as the only squad without a single loss. Imran Rahim collected the most individual points in the competition and became the overall best speaker, completing the NUS supremacy.
In the grand final, NUS1 convinced the majority of the judge panel that the motion "This House Would Never Offer Amnesty to Heads of State in the Midst of Possible Regime Change" should stand, staving off challenges from the opposition #7 University of the Philippines - Diliman 1 (Alistair Zosa, Carlo Borromeo, Pearl Simbulan). The same NUS team won the recent SMU Hammers 2011, Singapore's top 3-on-3 parliamentary debating tournament, while the exact UPD squad grabbed the national title in the Philippines Inter-Collegiate Debating Championship last April.
Abu, it was a 6-3 split with UPD getting the nods from Gica Mangahas, Jess Lopez and Satya :)
ReplyDeleteNoted. Added the word "majority" to avoid interpretation it was unanimous.
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