April 2008

The Archives

• Tournament

  Ateneo Australs Team Cap Full; Wait List Opened

  04.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The team cap for the 2008 Australs has been met. If you still want to go to Australs, sign up for the waitlist. If you were smart enough to pre-register or lucky enough to have filled out the registration form made available between February 29 and March 6, please make your payments by April [...]

• Tournament

  Tournament Results

  04.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I just posted the results of the tournaments held this academic year. Each entry includes the tournament, hosts, champion and top speaker. Again, if you think we missed any tournament wherein a team from the Philippines competed (international, local, regional or intervarsity), kindly drop us a line by leaving a comment.

• Site News

  Want To Help PhilDebate.com?

  04.13.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Phildebate.com is more than happy to accept volunteers to write news articles for the website. We encourage all debaters (past or present), adjudicators, advisers and fans to share their insights. To apply, simply hit the register link at the side bar (or here). We will be processing your applications as fast as we can.
  The invitation [...]

• Tabs

  Tabs For 2007-2008

  04.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Following speaker and team tabs are available in the sidebar:
  International
  2008 Worlds Universities Debating Championship - Assumption University (Bangkok, Thailand)
  National Tournaments
  2008 Philippine Inter-collegiate Debate Championship - UP Diliman (Quezon City)
  2007 National Debate Championship - Philippine Military Academy (Baguio City)
  Regional Tournaments
  2007 Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship - Special thanks to Anna Espino.
  Intervarsities
  2008 CSB Intervarsities - College of [...]

• Public Speaking

  High School Student From Philippine Science Tops ESU Public Speaking

  04.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  After two rounds of public speaking, Philippine Science High School student Gian Karlo Dapul bested all other contestants for the top plum in the English Speaking Union International Public Speaking Competition (ESU ISPC) after delivering a speech about the impact and the still unfulfilled potential of research in the Philippines today. Dapul made [...]

• Intervarsities

  The CSB Intervarsities + Tabs

  04.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The College of Saint Benilde successfully hosted an Intervarsity tournament as a warm-up to the PIDC. The competition featured four rounds of preliminary debates with the top four teams advancing to the semifinals. The CSB IVs was meant as a laid back tournament but it certainly didn’t stop debaters from all eras (even as far [...]

• Tournament

  PIDC 2008 Tabs

  04.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The tabs for the just-concluded Philippine Intercollegiate Debate Championship (PIDC) has just been released. All interested parties may download the file from the tournament’s official website.

• Tournament

  Ateneo de Manila University Dominates the 2008 PIDC

  04.12.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Ateneo Debate Society stamped its class all over the competition as they ran away with the lion’s share of the accolades in the just concluded Philippine Inter-collegiate Debate Championship held at UP Diliman. Kip Oebanda, Pauline Gairanod and Shiveena Parmanand (ADMU C) won the championship after beating the trio of Mico Biscocho, Gica Mangahas and [...]

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