No. of Pools: 4
Rules:
1st Round:
- Extempore Theme (Picture/Idioms/Words) will be given on the spot.
- 30 seconds thinking time + 2 minutes speaking time for each participant
- Best 4 participants from each pool will qualify for the subsequent round.
- Medium of communication will be Hindi.
2nd Round:
- This will be a panel discussion round.
- Medium of communication will be Hindi.
- The topic for the debate will be disclosed at least a day before the actual competition.
- Each pool will send 1 participant to represent it for each debate session.
- All the participants will be allotted their characters/ roles in advance through lottery.
- One of the participants in each session will be the panel coordinator while the other panellists will speak as
persons having a particular profile related to the topic.
- Total 20 minutes will be allotted per session.
- The panel Coordinator is supposed to introduce the topic and the panellists in the beginning and
then conduct the debate
- Number of entries: Each pool is required to send 6 participants for the first round out of which 3 will be Y16.
- Point Structure
- First round: 30%
- Second round: 70%
- Speaking out of turn, quarrelling with other participants, exceeding time may lead to negative marks which will be left upon the discretion of the Judges.
Parliamentary Debate (35 points)
No. of Pools: 4
Appreciation Trophy: Best Speaker
- Primary Rules as practiced by WUDC.
Link- http://flynn.debating.net/Sydrules.htm
- Each pool sends one team of 3 debaters: 2 debator + 1 adjudicator.
- After a round robin, the top 2 teams will enter the finals. Rest of the positions will be granted on the
basis of the round robin.
- The team must have at least one member from batches Y14 and above.
- Decisions of the Adjudicators will be final.
Model United Nations (30 points)
No. of Pools: 4
- This will be a simulation of the United Nations following the rules of procedure of UNAUSA.
http://www.unic.org.in/items/Rules_Of_Procedure.pdf
- Preparation Guide -
http://www.unausa.org/global-classrooms-model-un/how-to-participate/model-un-preparation
- Participants in Model UN conferences, referred to as delegates, are placed in committees and
assigned countries, or occasionally other organizations or political figures, to represent. They are
presented with their assignments in advance, along with a topic or topics that their committee will
discuss. Delegates conduct research before conferences and formulate positions that they will then
debate with their fellow delegates in committee. The only committee in this conference will be the
Security Council.
- Each pool must send 3 individual participants where at least one participant must be from batches Y16 and above.
- The positions will be given to the pools on the basis of the best performance of any member of that pool.
