Verbattle zonal selection round begins in Mangalore

Mangalore, Aug 5: Verbattle, an inter-school debate tournament for school and college students started on Monday for the Mangalore schools at Don Bosco hall, Mangalore.

This is the 9th edition. Verbattle Junior started in Mangalore with the selection rounds.

Presenter and Founder, Verbattle, Deepak Thimaya said, that the selection process for the first round of Verbattle was 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 Beginner, Verbattle Junior and Senior will be held on August 23rd, 2013. Winners will be given Rs 1 lakh cash as prize, he said.

This event is mainly to bring out hidden talents among youngsters and create a forum to speak. This helps youngsters to get updated with happenings around the world. Also this creates leaders and future politicians too. During the debate participants have to be good listeners, learn to respect others' thoughts, speakers, gain knowledge and develop themselves, he said.

Topics for Verbattle

Football is better than cricket

As teachers, men are better than women

Parents are nuisance in a young person's life

School does not contribute much to a person's future

There is no use watching news channels

Liars are creative people

Nothing is holy

Speech is the cause of all misery

If you do not like maths you are unintelligent

The society is made backward by politicians

Three teams had to choose topic by sides by chance and speak for subject and one team against the subject.

Nazeer who came to watch his daughters performance in Verbattle said, “While I was studying I did not get such opportunity and now after looking children's performance, I feel, I need to update my knowledge. This is encouraging us to know more and support children to compete with globe”, he said.

“It is my attempt and I came to know only subject matters taught in school are not enough to survive. Along with school subject we need to update general knowledge through avail resources” says Class IX student of Madhav Krupa School, Raghavendra.