According to this speaker tabs list, I was the best speaker for the Manila Inter-varsities held at St. Paul last Thursday. Though it’s great to be acknowledged as an individual, I would have really preferred to have fought tooth and nail for the championship. Unfortunately, my team was a victim of a confluence of nasty circumstances that made us under perform during the third round. That sent us to the exit, basically. Despite sweeping the first two rounds, a lackluster round three score of a whopping ZERO kept us out of the finals. A lot of people felt that the decision was somehow weird, but I’m at peace with the round. We could’ve done better - had we known our matter on reality-based modeling shows (THBT women should celebrate reality-based modeling shows), we would’ve surely made the finals. Oh well.

Just the same, I’m proud of my teammate Robert for performing really well in this last tournament. The scores didn’t reflect how well we worked together but we’ll even do better if we were teamed up again in the future. It was debating along side you. If we get paired up for the World Championships, I’m sure we’re going to be fine.

DLSU B won the championship. Twenty-eight teams of two took part in the event. Each team had two members each. Around 30 adjudicators also participated. The participating schools included College of Saint Benilde, Colegio San Juan de Letran, De Lasalle University - Manila, Lyceum of the Philippines, Mapua Institute of Technology, San Beda College, University of the Philippines - Diliman and the University of the Philippines - Manila.

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10 Comments

• At 2007.09.30 00:16, Martin said:
  

  Wow, rank 1.

  Congrats, congrats. XD

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• At 2007.09.30 08:33, noemi said:
  

  Congrats anyway. Of course, it would have been the sweetest victory if your team won. Maybe you should be a lawyer-doctor too.

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• At 2007.10.01 08:25, DJB Rizalist said:
  

  With 18 participants, a scoring range of 224 to 228 is not very discriminating. Someone should sponsor online debates.

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• At 2007.10.01 18:40, Gab said:
  

  holy wow. Rank 1. congratulations. XD Keep winning plz. XDXD

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• At 2007.10.01 19:00, benj said:
  

  Martin: Thanks
  
  noemi: Thanks Tita. I don’t think I can stomach the politics in law. haha
  
  DJB: the margins are traditionally narrow. The grading range is from 69-79 only. Also, there were 56 debaters in the competition.
  
  Gab: I always try to win. :p thanks.

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• At 2007.10.02 17:41, Jon Limjap said:
  

  Well I’m happy to see that a DLSU team won.

  Seems like they dominated the top speakers list too, but I’m sure wala silang binatbat sa isang TV appearance veteran like you. Hehehe :p

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• At 2007.10.03 10:31, Aloy said:
  

  Disclaimer: 3rd round wasnt my motion. Haha.
  Put me in your blogroll!

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• At 2007.10.03 10:49, Mon said:
  

  Congrats!

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• At 2007.10.04 20:59, Allen said:
  

  Wow ultranerd debater! Congratulations.

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• At 2007.10.11 16:37, Jeffrey said:
  

  Congrats Benj for being top ranked. I’m sure your teammates are proud of you.

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