Upcoming Indian Tournaments:
The New Year is upon us and from the 14th of January, the Indian Parliamentary Debate season starts in full swing. There are a host of debate tournaments coming up. I will list the tournaments that I know of.
Loyola, Chennai - 14th to 16th Jan
Prize Money - 1,80,000 INR
Adj Core: Siddharth Chauhan, Anantaraman
VOXPOP (Jadhavpur University), Kolkata - 16th to 17th January
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
NUJS, Kolkata - 20th to 22nd Jan
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core: Siddharth Chauhan, Luwie, Arun Mal, Sinha Ibn Humayun, Uday Joshi
Polemic (Ramjas), Delhi - 28th to 31st January
Prize Money: ?
Adj Core: ?
Premchand (Hindu), Delhi - 3rd to 6th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
ProCon 2012 (VIT), Vellore - 2nd to 5th February
Prize Money - 60,000 INR
Adj Core - Aashay Sahay, Preethi Iyer, Ritwik 'Bucky' Chauhan
IIT Guwahati - 2nd to 5th February
Prize Money - 70,000 INR + Gift Vouchers
Adj Core - Vipul Nanda, Akshay BD
FTD (KMC), Delhi - 7th to 10th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
SRDF (SRCC), Delhi - 10th to 14th February
Prize Money - 2,00,000 INR (Including conventional debates)
Adj Core - ?
JGLS, Delhi - 15th to 18th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
PCTE Ludhiana, Punjab - 16th to 18th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
NUALS, Kerela - 17th to 19th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
QED (BITS, Pilani), Rajasthan - 18th to 20th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
Kremlin (JMC), Delhi - 21st to 24th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
CUPiD (Christ), Bangalore - 22nd to 26th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - Sharmila Parmanand (More to be announced)
Manzar (Miranda House), Delhi - 24th to 28th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
Tashi (LSR), Delhi - 2nd to 5th March
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
MDO, Malaysia - 2nd to 6th March
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - Logan, Uttara Gharpure, Satya Venugopal, Leloy Claudio
IIT Delhi - 6th to 9th March
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
Shanti Narayan (Hansraj), Delhi - 8th to 13th March
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
NLSD X, Bangalore - 29th March to 2nd April
Prize Money - 2,50,000 INR
Adj Core - Ely Zosa, Nishita Vasan (More to to be announced)
Please contact me about more tournaments that I have missed out. Also do let me have more information on the tournaments mentioned above.
Past Indian Tournaments:
NLSD 2010 - The 9th instalment of the largest inter-varsity debate tournament in South Asia featured a larger number of novice teams than ever before, showing the growth and spread of PD in India. With Tate and Logan joining the NLS alumnus in the Adjudication Core, and Satya Venugopal and Ah Young Kim joining the formidable NLS adjudication pool, it was arguably the best judged debate in the country.
IIT Bombay (Pranay Bhatia, Shobhit Singal and Vaibhav Pittie) won the tournament defeating the recurring finalists from RVCE (Aashay Sahay, Prasun Bhaiya and Karthik Sivaram). They won the debate on a 8-1 split.
Pranay Bhatia won the best speaker award for the 2nd year in the running. I will publish the tab as soon I get my hands on it.
The 2009 tabs, however, can be found here.
RVDT 2011 - The 5th RVDT was the biggest one yet. With over 60 teams, it was the biggest Open tournament of the region. With an extremely competitive break, in true RV fashion, all the breaking teams made money. The motions were widely praised for being thought provoking and judges from Singapore and Sri Lanka ensured that the debaters were exposed to a variety of schools of adjudication.
NLS Thay (Vipul Nanda, Uttara & Eashan Ghosh) were the hot favourites for the championship and broke on top of the tab - undefeated. They were however defeated by eventual finalists CLPD (Vishwajoy Mukherjee, Pratham and Pradyumna Jairam) in the quarter finals on a 3-2 split.
RVCE Novice (Prabhat 'Baba' Mukherjea, Ambar Bhushan and Rahul Saini) unanimously beat CLPD in the finals on the motion: THBT individuals have absolute autonomy over their bodies. RVCE Novice were Government.
The tabs can be found here.
IITB ND 2011 - Throwing the competition open for the first time (a trend followed by a few other tournaments after RVDT) IIT Bombay got debaters from across the country. With a stronger Delhi presence compared to the Bangalore tournaments, there were more styles of debating seen in the tournament. With Tate joining Pranay and Vipul in the core, the tournament ran in a no nonsense style, with wonderful motions that expected debaters to be better informed than in other national tournaments.
NLS Thay (Yaman Verma, Eashan Ghosh & Uttara) from oppostion beat perpetual finalists RVCE (Aashay, Karthik and Prasun) who proposed the motion "THBT the state should actively discredit 'God Men'"
This tournament was notable for having 5 NLS teams (6 including NLS Thay) reaching the knock out rounds, with 3 teams from RVCE. For the first time in a national debate, no team from a DU college made the break.
The tabs can be found here.
The New Year is upon us and from the 14th of January, the Indian Parliamentary Debate season starts in full swing. There are a host of debate tournaments coming up. I will list the tournaments that I know of.
Loyola, Chennai - 14th to 16th Jan
Prize Money - 1,80,000 INR
Adj Core: Siddharth Chauhan, Anantaraman
VOXPOP (Jadhavpur University), Kolkata - 16th to 17th January
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
NUJS, Kolkata - 20th to 22nd Jan
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core: Siddharth Chauhan, Luwie, Arun Mal, Sinha Ibn Humayun, Uday Joshi
Polemic (Ramjas), Delhi - 28th to 31st January
Prize Money: ?
Adj Core: ?
Premchand (Hindu), Delhi - 3rd to 6th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
ProCon 2012 (VIT), Vellore - 2nd to 5th February
Prize Money - 60,000 INR
Adj Core - Aashay Sahay, Preethi Iyer, Ritwik 'Bucky' Chauhan
IIT Guwahati - 2nd to 5th February
Prize Money - 70,000 INR + Gift Vouchers
Adj Core - Vipul Nanda, Akshay BD
FTD (KMC), Delhi - 7th to 10th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
SRDF (SRCC), Delhi - 10th to 14th February
Prize Money - 2,00,000 INR (Including conventional debates)
Adj Core - ?
JGLS, Delhi - 15th to 18th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
PCTE Ludhiana, Punjab - 16th to 18th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
NUALS, Kerela - 17th to 19th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
QED (BITS, Pilani), Rajasthan - 18th to 20th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
Kremlin (JMC), Delhi - 21st to 24th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
CUPiD (Christ), Bangalore - 22nd to 26th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - Sharmila Parmanand (More to be announced)
Manzar (Miranda House), Delhi - 24th to 28th February
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
Tashi (LSR), Delhi - 2nd to 5th March
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
MDO, Malaysia - 2nd to 6th March
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - Logan, Uttara Gharpure, Satya Venugopal, Leloy Claudio
IIT Delhi - 6th to 9th March
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
Shanti Narayan (Hansraj), Delhi - 8th to 13th March
Prize Money - ?
Adj Core - ?
NLSD X, Bangalore - 29th March to 2nd April
Prize Money - 2,50,000 INR
Adj Core - Ely Zosa, Nishita Vasan (More to to be announced)
Please contact me about more tournaments that I have missed out. Also do let me have more information on the tournaments mentioned above.
Past Indian Tournaments:
NLSD 2010 - The 9th instalment of the largest inter-varsity debate tournament in South Asia featured a larger number of novice teams than ever before, showing the growth and spread of PD in India. With Tate and Logan joining the NLS alumnus in the Adjudication Core, and Satya Venugopal and Ah Young Kim joining the formidable NLS adjudication pool, it was arguably the best judged debate in the country.
IIT Bombay (Pranay Bhatia, Shobhit Singal and Vaibhav Pittie) won the tournament defeating the recurring finalists from RVCE (Aashay Sahay, Prasun Bhaiya and Karthik Sivaram). They won the debate on a 8-1 split.
Pranay Bhatia won the best speaker award for the 2nd year in the running. I will publish the tab as soon I get my hands on it.
The 2009 tabs, however, can be found here.
RVDT 2011 - The 5th RVDT was the biggest one yet. With over 60 teams, it was the biggest Open tournament of the region. With an extremely competitive break, in true RV fashion, all the breaking teams made money. The motions were widely praised for being thought provoking and judges from Singapore and Sri Lanka ensured that the debaters were exposed to a variety of schools of adjudication.
NLS Thay (Vipul Nanda, Uttara & Eashan Ghosh) were the hot favourites for the championship and broke on top of the tab - undefeated. They were however defeated by eventual finalists CLPD (Vishwajoy Mukherjee, Pratham and Pradyumna Jairam) in the quarter finals on a 3-2 split.
RVCE Novice (Prabhat 'Baba' Mukherjea, Ambar Bhushan and Rahul Saini) unanimously beat CLPD in the finals on the motion: THBT individuals have absolute autonomy over their bodies. RVCE Novice were Government.
The tabs can be found here.
IITB ND 2011 - Throwing the competition open for the first time (a trend followed by a few other tournaments after RVDT) IIT Bombay got debaters from across the country. With a stronger Delhi presence compared to the Bangalore tournaments, there were more styles of debating seen in the tournament. With Tate joining Pranay and Vipul in the core, the tournament ran in a no nonsense style, with wonderful motions that expected debaters to be better informed than in other national tournaments.
NLS Thay (Yaman Verma, Eashan Ghosh & Uttara) from oppostion beat perpetual finalists RVCE (Aashay, Karthik and Prasun) who proposed the motion "THBT the state should actively discredit 'God Men'"
This tournament was notable for having 5 NLS teams (6 including NLS Thay) reaching the knock out rounds, with 3 teams from RVCE. For the first time in a national debate, no team from a DU college made the break.
The tabs can be found here.
hey sayan,
ReplyDeletefirst of all - thanks for this blog and the tabs, this is excellent and really helpful.
i wanted to ask you if the AIL PD is done for this year, last year it was around end of jan and i havent heard about it this year. so if you know please do lemme know :)
Hey,
ReplyDeleteThe AIL PD is due to happen later this year. The Debating Society ran into some trouble with their administration and could not organize their debate at the same time this year. Will keep you posted about the various debates that are coming up.
Cheers,
Sayan