After successfully conducting seven editions of Verbattle - the biggest debating competition for school and college students in Karnataka - the Verbattle team is now taking it to the next level and has announced the dates for the biggest ever inter-state debate for school students, ‘Verbattle South’.
The first round of Verbattle South is being held at Balamandir German Hall, T Nagar, Chennai, on January 9-10, 2012. Verbattle South-Junior will be open to school students from classes-7 to 10 and in the age group of 12-16 years. A team of two members can participate from each school. Interested schools and students can register by logging on to www.verbattle.com or calling 09886464641/09880469068.
Verbattle South will be held in the five prominent zones across South India - Kochi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Puducherry and Bangalore.
The event will see 100 teams participating from each zone. Nine teams from each zone will be selected for the finals that will have a preliminary round and zonal final. The selected nine teams from each zone are then brought to Bangalore, where they will compete with 9 teams selected from Verbattle 2011. Finals of Verbattle South will be held in Bangalore on January 21, 2012.
Sharing the success story of Verbattle in Karnataka, Deepak Thimaya, founder of Verbattle, said, “Ever since Verbattle has been successfully received by schools/colleges across Karnataka, we wanted to take Verbattle to the national level. Verbattle South is a step towards that. We look forward to an exciting season of Verbattle South.”
Some of the interesting topics for the debate in the selection round are ‘There is no culture without civic sense’; ‘Privatisation is the root of all economic problems’; ‘Tolerance is a weakness’; and a topic given by PETA – ‘Animals do not have rights like human beings’.
Verbattle judges are usually working professionals. The winning team gets a grand cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, two finalist teams will get Rs 20,000 each, best state team will get Rs 5,000. There is a prize for the mentor of the winning team - a cash award of Rs 10,000.
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