2006-2007 is interesting for two reasons – it was a very competitive season and a lot of the senior debaters of that time chose to sit out one of the major tournaments. Top speakers of the 2006 NDC and the 2007 PIDC – Claudia Poon and Leloy Claudio, respectively — chose to not participate as [...]
According to speaker scores, that is. Since the National Debate Championship and Philippine Inter-collegiate Championship all had preliminaries lasting seven rounds, both tournaments had equal weight. Obviously, only speakers who competed in both competitions had a shot in getting in the top ten. Total speaker points from both tournaments were simply added to come [...]