Mangalore :
The Mangalore zonal selection for Verbattle Junior will be held on August 1 and the selection for the Verbattle senior competition will be held on August 2 here.
The zonal selection round will be held at Samruddhi Bhavan between 9.30 am to 1 pm and between 1.30 pm to 4 pm. The team that would emerge as the sole winner among hundreds of teams participating will be awarded a grand cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh in the Junior Category. The winning team from the Beginner level will receive Rs 30,000; the winning team from Senior Category will receive Rs 50,000.
Verbattle, the country’s largest and most successful inter-school debate competition conducted by Verbattle Foundation had kicked off its tenth edition with Verbattle Beginner competitions in Bangalore on July 21.
Verbattle will be hosted and supervised by Deepak Thimaya. This year, around 1,200 students of schools and colleges are expected to actively participate in the Verbattle competition.
The selection process for the first round of Verbattle is physically conducted for two days in each of the three zones of Karnataka, namely Mangalore, Hubli and Bangalore. The selected teams are then brought to Bangalore, 27 teams from each zone, and in a spread of three weeks, the ensuing events are conducted in Bangalore. The semi-finals and finals for Verbattle Junior and Senior will be held on August 22nd, 2014. The final debates will be moderated by Thimaya and judged by some of the eminent personalities from the state.
Deepak Thimaya said: In the last nine years, we have brought together thousands of school and college students on a common platform. We have given out Rs. 21 lakh as prize money since its inception. This year Verbattle aims to make the tournament bigger and a platform of great learning experience.
Till date Verbattle has conducted 20 state level competitions in Karnataka – nine Verbattle Junior and five Verbattle Senior and also five Verbattle Beginner competitions in Bangalore. For the first time a South India level competition – Verbattle South – was held in January, 2012 after state level competitions in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala along with Verbattle Karnataka. Currently Verbattle is organizing state, regional, national and international competitions along with its other activities such as Verbattle Forum, Club and Leadership programs.
Schools and colleges interested to participate can register by logging on to www.verbattle.com.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Mangalore / Stanley Pinto, TNN / July 30th, 2014
