[MI Link] The Arena 2

The Arena Season 2 has started on Channel 5. Did you watch the crossfire between RI and St Nicolas? Personally, I think that RI team was better last year. The short Indian boy was quite sharp when he shot the POIs. Intellectually 'stimulating'. >:P
The 3rd girl, Claire Tan from St. Nicks was the best speaker IMHO. Apart from her feisty approach, the points she brought up was supported with good examples whereas the RI speakers made a lot of assumptions. St. Nicks could have won if they pointed out those baseless comments during POI. However, the first speaker wasted a lot of time.

Despite some of the weakness pointed out, The Arena is a good starting ground to learn about how to structure an argument as well as how to critique arguments. The teams selected had to auditioned to get to the preliminary rounds. The 3 judges (supposedly unbiased) will give their (not so in-depth) critique for their mark allocation.

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