 Several participants of the tournament with the adjudication team. |
Over the weekend. INTRTXT alongside Sri Sarjana Tuition Centre hosted the Kuching Interschool Debating Championship.
Over the course of three preliminary rounds and a break to semi-finals, the winner of the tournament was SMK Batu Lintang (SMKBL). Runners up were from Kolej Datuk Patinggi Haji Abdillah. Melvin Lee from SMKBL won the Overall Best Speaker Award. The scores from the preliminary rounds of this tournament will be tabulated in the Kuching Debate League for the Asian season.
The adjudication core comprised of Galvin Lee from SMKBL, Ian Dylan Chai from St Joseph's Private School and Terence Aaron Anthony from INTRTXT. The inclusion of upper secondary school students is part of an INTRTXT initiative to train the next generation of adjudicators so they may have the first-hand experience in setting debate motions. In the future, they will be the ones leading the scene and create balanced motions with appropriate burdens for each team.
KIDC was initially started by the SMK Batu Lintang debate club several years back. But this year, they have decided to move it to Sri Sarjana. Hopefully, this wouldn't be the last. Results can be viewed at https://kidc2018.herokuapp.com/ while the motions are embedded below. Again, congratulation to SMKBL.
Note: The tournament was held at the same time as the Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship (MNSDC). One of the motions in the finals is similar to the one debated at MNSDC. However, that was purely coincidental as the panel decided on the motion several days before it was released there.
