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Well done guys!

You both did well.

I know Katsumoto, so was not surprised with his excellent presentation, but really was very impressed with Obinoscopy, prolly cos I dont know him too well before now. I thought Katsumoto will have an easy walkover but Obinoscopy really gave a well matched opposition. You guys did justice to the topic.

Thank you guys, thank you all.

BTW, what happened to Afam4ever and Ikengawo? Chickened out?

We want only valid/relevant questions not comments please.

5 Judges will score each debater as follow:

1,Presentation(opening, flow, closing, response to questions) ..... 4pts

2, Logic of arguments ..... 4pts

3, Strenght of facts, examples, cases ..... 4pts

4, Persuasiveness ..... 4pts

5, Demonstration of knowledge and understanding of the subject ..... 4pts

So Total maximum score for each debater = 100

Ordinarily we expect the winners of each pair to come on top, but in a case a pair do no justice to the topic and are scored low by the judges, then the other pair will advance to the final.

Katsumoto: Jarus,

Clarification

When I provide rebuttal to my opponent, I am responding only to Obinoscopy and not Obinoscopy and Ikengawo.

Similarly, Obinoscopy responds only to me?

If this is the case, then one of Obinoscopy/Katsumoto and one of Afam4eva/Ikengawo will advance to the second/final round.

This needs to be clear to both debaters and judges.

Thanks

YES, you respond ONLY to your opponent and questions directed to you from the judges and audience at appropriate times.

Individuals will be scored. Not necessarily that one of Obinoscopy/Katsumoto and one of Afam4eva/Ikengawo will advance to the second/final round. If for instance Afam comes 1st and Ikengawo comes 2nd, both will advance to final.

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me ke? no put sand sand for my garri o. I just succeeded in convincing roctation to divorce her husband and marry me, no spoil tins for me. Also my future mother in law Chaircover might be reading, am planning to marry her daughter by 2020... singing Shaggy.... it wasnt me...

CrazyMan: You can partake in the exercise you know...

Haaa... not for small boys like me.

Tgirl4real: Keep what up? U berra come and grant urs.

me ke? I be nobody jare.

Odunnu: who is this?

Your one and only remaining NL boyfriend

[quote author=Missy_B]You have a lot of answering to do. Start by checking your YM offline messages.[/quote]I know sweetie, I will check asap. I miss you too.

We are still waiting for more judges to confirm their availability.

So far we have:

Confirmed Judges
1, PhysicsQED
2, Sisi_kill
3, Cougar
4,
5,

Congratulations to Odumchi and Ogugua. May your reign be peaceful!

And congratulations to all Ndigbos.

Nice! Nice!

Wonderful interviews!

Good job. Keep it up!

^let it rest Andre, its on home page now. Sorry about the delay.

PointB: Welcome back. You can start by recommending this thread for the FP, and helping us keep troll as bay. You will notice that some comments here deserve to be rewarded with the 'hidden' status.

The thread is now on home page.

Please let's move on. The thread is now on home page.

Thanks.

Paul John: From
https://www.nairaland.com/1081002/nairaland-political-debate-oct-2012



Mod, at the beginning of this thread you stated that


But seriously, I don't think you're keeping to your word.
The topic of this month which is:


How on earth do you think this topic won't lead to exchange of words due to "sensitive and emotional" discussion that might arise as the topic role?!

At a time that hatred has been heated up just because of a novel written by a prof.

Do you want to prove this topic would be debated without the mentioning of the civil war, the starvation and other delicate matters that shouldn't be brought up due to it's sensitivity and sadness it might cause readers.

There are millions of topics that can be discussed and would attract great traffic if this is the hidden agender the topic is all about.
Topic like this takes hatred and discrimination to a greater height.
No one is saying history should be forgotten, but the ones that seems delicate should be avoided

While we appreciate your criticisms, what we meant by 'sensitive topics' are topics that put an ethnic group against another and not 'sensitive topics' that affect the whole country. We cannot change our past, but sometimes we need to honestly analyse our past to formulate a good future for ourselves, that is the aim of debating such topic.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]What happened to this earlier decision, particularly the bolded?[/quote]It will be very difficult to capture audience votes. The polls are currently not working.

PointB: Welcome back. You can start by recommending this thread for the FP, and helping us keep troll as bay. You will notice that some comments here deserve to be rewarded with the 'hidden' status.

I will do my best to see it make home page. It will be difficult for me to go through the whole thread now and hide the insulting posts, but I will keep watch on the thread from now on.

On the other hand, you can give me the links to the posts on the thread you want hidden.

Sorry guys been away for a while. Now back.

So far...

JUDGING CRITERIA:

1, Presentation(opening, flow, closing) - 4 marks
2, Logic of arguments - 4 marks
3, Strength of facts & examples - 4 marks
4, Persuasiveness - 4 marks
5, Demonstration of knowledge/understanding of the subject - 4 marks

Total score from a judge = 20, from 5 judges = 100

TOPIC FOR OCTOBER
FIRST ROUND - 1914 AMALGAMATION - A HISTORICAL MISTAKE?
FINAL ROUND - SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE - ULTIMATE PANACEA TO NIGERIA'S PROBLEMS?

DATE:
First round: Saturday, October 27, 2012
Final round: Sunday, October 28, 2012

... more volunteers for the debate please

Interesting!

Sorry I have not been around for a while now. You have my support for this process, please let me know if my assistance is needed in any way.

Igbo kwenu!

shymexx: Non-Nigerians

I nominate Talina and Sybellah - two beautiful and intelligent women..

Talina - Canadian.

Syllebah - Ivorian.

Nice suggestion. expecially Talina.

Jarus take note.

Jarus: As Judge or debater?


@OAM4J,

Your mail never drop o

it went na. check your spam box.

Jarus: Yeah.


Check your email. I await your response/review to the initial list.

Sorry, been on mobile. I have replied.

Jarus: I'm liking this idea of having both Katsumoto and PointB on the panel, to neutralize two extreme points of views on politics section. Or do you guys think the exercise is better off leaving both of them out?

They are better as debaters. See people asking if we started the debate already, thanks to them