Verbattle Vertex
This year Verbattle is being organized as Verbattle Vertex where the current three competitions of Verbattle; Verbattle Beginner, Verbattle Junior and Verbattle Senior will be held during the same period of the event. Verbattle Beginner is being held for the first time for school children in age group 8- 12 years.

Sponsors
Verbattle Beginner and Junior are being sponsored by Kinder Joy an exquisitive chocolate brand, product of Ferrero. Verbattle Junior is being co-sponsored by Jyothi Labs and LIC Housing Finance. First prize for Verbattle Junior is being sponsored by Bosch and first prize for Verbattle Senior is being sponsored by Vikram Hospitals.

Facebook
Verbattle is now on Facebook. Look up. Post messages. Enjoy.

New Partnership
TV House, the organizer of the event has tied up with Magnum Intergrafiks a Mangalore based advertising company which is also one of the largest advertising companies in country. As a first step Magnum has come in as the design partner for Verbattle Vertex.

Larger reach
Verbattle is directly approaching 2500 schools and 1500 colleges this year inviting participants for Verbattle Vertex.

Parents workshop
For the first time parents workshop is being held as an attempt to engage parents in this participative exercise. Verbattle has found the need to enlist support of parents of participats to enable the initiative to grow into a socially viable activity.

Editorial Board
Verbattle now has an editorial panel set up to govern and manage content in the website. Mr. Vinayaka Ramakrishna has been appointed the editor and the panel will consist of a small group of selected students and teachers.

Sukrut Gejji a participant of Verbattle Junior 2008 has been selected as one of the first panel members. Sukrut is currently studying in first PU in Belgaum.

Team Verbattle Mangalore
Mangalore saw a surge in participation in Verbattle Junior 2008.

It was majorly through the efforts put in by Harish Nayak and his team of Mangalore city who took the onus on themselves to visit schools and facilitated registration.

Mangalore zone, this year would see its schools and colleges being visited by his team again, and we wish them all a great success. The tournament's success lies in their success in a way, and lets hope for a resounding success this year. Schools and Colleges can call for a presentation on Verbattle, to confirm registration and/or to seek information to Harish Nayak on 98443365323

Team Verbattle Hubli
Verbattle has been seeking local support from the last year through professional engagements to approach and facilitate registration. Most schools seemed to be relieved to be interacting with someone in flesh and form than just voices from Bangalore. Ravi of Hubli has his team that is visiting schools and colleges in the Hubli Zone and lets hope for a really better fare this year. Schools and Colleges can call for a presentation on Verbattle, to confirm registration and/or to seek information to Ravi G on 9900485645

Selected Suggested Debate Statements
Exams are necessary till tenth standard – debate statement suggested by Chaitanya K. Shetty, architect from Mangalore has been selected as a Verbattle Junior Zonal Skirmish debate statement.

Verbattle is going National next year
Verbattle  Junior will be the first national event of Verbattle to be conducted in September 2010. It will be a large and unique exercise. Team Verbattle is looking for sponsors, supporters, volunteers, organizations and other interested like minded individuals to come forward and support this endeavour.

Verbattle Club
Verbattle Club will be inaugurated on the 1st of August in Mangalore during the Zonal Clamber event. All registrations processes and setting up of units will be completed before the month end.