Verbattle 2010 Verbattle 2010 is a mega event where the two most important competitive events of Verbattle for students in age group of 12 to 24 year are held. Verbattle Junior and Verbattle Senior will be conducted simultaneously as the biggest debating tournaments in Karnataka. Verbattle Beginner for primary school students will be conducted this year in November..
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Larger reach Verbattle is directly approaching 2500 schools and 1500 colleges this year inviting participants for Verbattle 2010.
Parents workshop 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.
Verbattle is going National this 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.
Verbattle is organized in three zones namely
Hundreds of teams are expected to participate. A team consists of two students.
An entry fee of Rs. 500/- is charged per team. The amount shall be paid vide DD drawn in favor of Verbattle, payable at Bangalore .
Entry of teams only through the schools.
The participants will meet two conditions. They should be studying in a class from 7th to 10th and should be in the age group of 12 to 16 years.
State level preliminary with a total of 81 teams selected from the 3 zones, and all the other final stages will be held in Bangalore .
Cash Prize of Rs. 1,00,000/- plus a lot of other useful prizes for the winning team.
Two finalists cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- each and other prizes.
The event will be telecast on Udaya News Channel. The show will be capsuled in a highly viewer friendly manner and will be shown on Sunday mornings at 9 am for half to one hour over the period of conduct of the tournament.
The speakers should express themselves:
Desired qualities in a debater - The debaters should be:
The aims of Verbattle:
Verbattle encourages young minds to think freely, process thoughts aptly, convert them into simple language and present arguments logically; with clarity in speech, a highly acceptable accent, audible voice and corresponding gestures.
Verbattle has the patronage of writers, philosophers, politicians and experts in governance and public issues.
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