Im a virgin debater...please be gentle..lol

National Novice 2009 had just finished and here's a round-up how we fared...

1st round-MICET 1 vs UT Mara 1
'This house will remove race based identification in Malaysia'
The first round draw was kind of an unfortunate one.As it was the first round,we were definately not into gear and things were not made easier by pitting us against the first team of the home team(eventual vice-champs).We had a huge flaw in our mechanism leading us to our downfall.Can't help agreeing with the results.
Result:UT Mara 1

2nd round-CFS 3 vs MICET 1
'This house will allow abortion of physical deformaties'
This was a fun round.Frankly,abortion is a debate theme we knew by heart.We already had it during our training and the previous President's Cup. Coming from CFS IIU, they were good speakers with good structure but lacked in thier mechanism and arguments.
Result:MICET 1

3rd round-MICET 1 vs MMUM 4
'This house will consider lifestyle for organ recievers'
This debate was a very confusing one for me.It was a very close debate.We had alot of problems in defining 'lifestyle' but in the end it thankfully went our way.
Result:MICET 1

4th round-UKM 1 vs MICET 1
'This house believes that Chris Brown should never receive a grammy.Ever.'
Obviously a humour round.It was a pretty intresting motion, however frankly I thought that we lost this round.After three rounds,we were tired,exhausted and at one point thought about just throwing away the debate.I was'nt even taking things seriusly during my speech.I made, 'He's not a superhuman so he makes mistakes' and 'He's obviously not gonna be with you goverment!' remarks.I even thought of singing.Haha.The opposite side were taking things a bit to seriusly.I think thats y we won..kot.=P
Result:MICET1

5th round-MMUM 2 vs MICET 1
'This house will impose carbon tax on individuals'
Dejavu all over again.It's similar to the debate that BMI lost to MIAT in the quarterfinals of the Presidents Cup.The difference was that this was a bit more general, but somehow I used nearly all the same points I used against MIAT.MMUM had trouble with thier mechanism, and we managed to capatalize on it.All three of them were foriegner's and it was nice to debate with them.
Result:MICET 1

Octo-finals-IIS1 vs MICET1
'This house will teach sex education to secondary school students with or without thier parents consent'
With 4 wins,we managed to break 10th and went to the octo-finals against IIS.(BMI's neighbour..lol).Admittingly, we had a very fragile setup which i realized half-way through my speech.IIS was a very good and eloquent team.They had structure and style as well.It was my worst debate for the tourney I think.
Result:IIS 1

For 'virgins'(the term they used for novice debaters..lol),being ranked 10 out of 70 teams is a good feat.For individual result alhamdulillah I was ranked 7th.For that,I thank my teammates, Ikram and Hazee for being such wonderful comrades in battle.It wudnt be as fun if it werent for u guys.Hope we can work together again in the future.=) I would also like to thank Miss Hayati and the whole MICET debate team so much for giving me the chance to tag along.I owe u guys alot.U guys are superb, and with that spirit im sure u guys wud go far in debating. I would also want to congratulate Uitm a job well done especially because organizing a debate tourney with 70 teams is very hard to do.Hope u wud continue to do so in the future.and to all the adjudicators and friends I met during the tournament, I hope we'll all meet again in the future and its nice to get to know u guys.Finally,Monash won the cup in the finals against UTM 1.I didnt stay to watch it tho.After loosing the octo's we went out and played bowling.^_^

p.s->I dont remember all the exact motions,but its nearly just about the same.
->If anyone wants the tabs(individual and team marks for rankings), u can get it from the malaysian_debaters yahoo group.