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2. Asians
3. Australasians
1995
4. Australasians
2001
5. Worlds 2000
also the venue for our Championship dinner on the 10th. The harbor area is
very much like Boat Quay and Clarke Quay in Singapore, except it's much
larger, and it has a true water-front with boats streaming in and out of the little
bay area. During the evening, the fountains in the harbor light up, and there
are laser light displays with accompanying music, similar to what one sees in
Sentosa I suspect.
Aneesh Krishna, Anubhav Mehrotra, Rajesh Krishnan and Srinivaz Pai.
Debating within my University tends to be somewhat dominated by
undergraduates of Indian nationality, given that many of them are very
well-read, and articulate with a great command of the language too. For this
tournament though, six of the eight debaters were Indian, and two were
Chinese.
Chan Soon Keng. All three of us were adjudicators for the tournament, and
from specifically the School of Applied Science. This picture was taken during
our Championship dinner at the Sydney Exhibition Centre, just overlooking
Darling harbor.
think out of the entire Asian contingents, the Japanese comprised some of the
best sports in the tournament, taking part in the World Masters and also
coming for formal occasions like these in their best. Not like us Singaporeans,
who all uniformly came in suits or worse :) I never got the name of the friend
on my right, but on my left is Kumiko Tsuboi from the Tokyo Women's
Christian University. She's a third year student in Japanese culture, and quite
forthright in thinking, a great departure from the more traditionalist thinking of
women in Japan. We talked quite a bit during our stay in the tournament... :)
Hmm... that's me blushing, not a result of that nine day tan I had!
the 11th, and it was held inside the Great Hall of the main building where we
also had our opening ceremony. Lunch-time concerts are regularly held in
this hall. There's even a pipe-organ right on the other side of the hall too.
The teams in this round were from Stanford University and Edinburgh
University (could be wrong) in the Government (left) side, facing the Inner
Temple and the eventual winners of the tournament, Monash University on
the opposition side.
our Grand finals on the 11th
January. This auditorium is a
frequent venue for a good number
of cultural and classical
performances by artistes in the
city, and I thought was a greatly
appropriate venue for the last
debate of the Worlds 2000. The
town hall is situated at the end of
George Street, a long road that I
must have walked at least a
half-dozen times during my stay in
Sydney.
have approved of the Internet", and was watched by about 700 participants
and members of the public. The eventual winning team is seated on the far
right hand side- the two ladies in red and blue from Monash, still wearing the
same clothes for the semi-finals earlier on in the morning. Worlds debating is
really an informal sort of affair I guess, which is both a good and bad thingie...
:) The four finalist teams were from LaVerne University (US), University
College Dublin (Ireland) in the Opening Government (left side of the picture),
and Glasgow University Union (Scotland) and Monash University (Australia) in
the Opposition.
