LOYANG VS RAFFLES INSTITUTION

Let's call it the showdown of the neighbourhood school VS Independent School.
Face it, i bet more than 50% thinks that RI wins hands down.
But wait a minute, they are not the champions!


SCOREBOARD

Loyang - 51 [Proposition]
Raffles - 49 [Oppostion]


MOTION:

"Hey Good Looking, You're a winner. Good looks truimph over effort."

Even before we begin. Let's say that this motion is putting Loyang at a slight disadvantage. Not a huge disadvantage. But bad enough to determined them a loss in the match. Nuff said, let's talk about the debate. Boy, was it enjoyable.

ROUND 1 - Naggy VS Laidback.

Shahnaz started the match with a good morning? But isn't it shown in the evening. I know, i should stop being so picky about such thing, but it's to point out something that makes her seem too caught up in a own world. So, like what a normal proposition should do (laying the parameters/clarification/case divide and all.) I think she did a pretty decent job.

Lionel on the other hand was not being pushy and forceful, and the POIs were rather - lousy. Pretty much, Shahnaz could have just used about 2 sentences to make his POIs wasted, and get moving to her point. But she was TOO NAGGY. She repeated and repeated. Yes. She's trying to make her point foolproof, but it's gonna waste you alot of time.

Opposition turn was pretty laidback. I like the way how Shahnaz keeps giving him POIs, but wait a minute. IT'S TOO LONG. And then Loyang's rebuttal bank got drained bit by bit.

ROUND 2 - Dramatic, Entertaining and Stylish.

Round 2 is like the best match of the round can? It's so funny and all. So anyway, let's start. Yanfen, the Loyang girl, she was really spontateous and loud. Yanfen was really good at putting through her thoughts, and rebutting the opposition case in a really funny way. And all those criticisms, hai ya, the show is a debate with a twist! And such dramatic style really works on TV.

Of course, Kartik was really good too. Kudos to him. I feel that among the 6 people in the match. Yanfen and Kartik were respectively the best 2 for each school. Kartik's POIs were witty but intelligent. And most memorable "Is your mummy credible" That's like the icing on a slice of already so delicious cake. Yanfen also did a good job in injecting humor and her rubber face when there was a confusion in the buttons were authenic.

However, as the round went on. Kartik was still being lively, but it was getting more and more dull. Even Yanfen's active personality died down and she grew pretty serious, talk about double faced. However, I felt that content wise, Kartik won hands downs. Sure, Yanfen had the charisma and personality, but it wasn't enough to salvage her shallow content based delivery.

ROUND 3 - Mean Meaner Meanest

Group rebuttal round, was awesome in style and delivery aspect. But i do agree with the judges. Context wise, not really that well done. However, as the second ticks away, you see the flair in each of the contestants. Most noticeably is the eyecandy, i told you guys will go gaga over (sonika). She was fierce. Lionel was pretty good too. But kartik and yanfens' rebuttal were seemingly shallow. Shahnaz nearly cost her team when she was explaining and explaining the same point in different sentence structure. Overall, Raffles did a better job at this round.

ROUND 4- It seems like hell

Why does it seems like hell? Sonika was fierce, Shi yang was aggressive. Both of them just made my whole TV set burned. Sonika was really fierce, and she gave no lopeholes for Shi yang to point it out. Even so, the ones that Shiyang gave were redundant. Blamed it on over confidence or snobbish, but i think Shiyang was pretty shallow in content based and even his style lack...erm, style. Sonika wins the round handdowns.


BREAKDOWN.

Style - Loyang.
Content -Raffles.
Persuasiveness (tone) - Loyang.
Rebuttals - Loyang.

No doubt that loyang should win. But okay, i was one of the few who thought RI would win at first.