Hello Everybody!!!
FREEDOM OF SPEECH is over and from the feedbacks that we have recieved, it was good enough but has lots of scope for improvement too. Please send your valuable comments and feedback to kronicle.kiit@gmail.com

The winners were:
Team ABSOLUT - Chandan Mishra
Divya Agarwal
Anshuman Nayak

The 1st runner-ups were:
Team ARTICULATE BEINGS(AB) - Samanwita Mishra
Amritanshu Verma
Harsh Raj
Abhishek Anand

The other semi-finalists were:
Team THE VETERANS - Aparajita Aparna Sahay
Shruti Parija
Swagat Dash
Nakul Dhadeech

Team MACAVITY - SUTITHI KIRAN PANIGRAHI
SHAMPA KABI
TIYASHA SINHA
KEYA PAUL

Congratulations!!

Take care and watch this blogspot for more.

Results for Preliminary Round - FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Hello People,

The WAIT is over! The EXCITEMENT begins!!

It was a tough neck to neck competition of the wizards of words, but the teams that have finally been shortlisted are

(not in any order or rank):

1. Macavity

2. Linkin Wordss

3. Soch

4. The Veterans

5. Clueless

6. Cipher

7. Absolut

8. Articulate Beings (AB)

Wait-listed Teams:

1. Vision

2. Hikikimori

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

All the 8 shortlisted teams have to reach D-6 by 3:00PM (1500 HRS) tomorrow i.e. 13th September, 2008. If any team fails to reach by 3PM, the wait-listed team will be promoted to the Group-Debate competition. The topics will be provided to the teams at 3 PM SHARP.

Please note: 30 minutes prior to the debate, you will be provided with your topic and you are free to gather any information by any means regarding the topic (even internet). Therefore you are advised to bring your laptops with you.

The teams that could not figure in the list should not get disheartened. You all are heartily invited to the event. There are audience prizes up for grabs.

See you all at 3PM at D-6 tomorrow. The Countdown Begins - NOW!!!!

-Team KRONICLE.

Freedom of Speech - 4 -------> General Rules

Hello everybody!!! This blog is to inform you all about Freedom of Speech.
Date: 13th September, 2008, Saturday
Time: 3PM
Venue: D-6, Kathajori Campus (Campus-3)

Rules:
There will be 8 teams shortlisted based on answers given to the caselets posted on the blog. In the 1st Stage, there will be 4 rounds, each consisting of 2 teams. The 2 teams in that particular round will fight it out on a topic given to them just half-an-hour before. Whoever wins that round goes to the next stage. The other team is eliminated.

In the 2nd Stage, there will be 2 rounds, each again consisting of 2 teams and they will again fight it out on a new topic. The winner of each round of the 2nd stage goes to the 3rd and final stage.

In the final stage, the 2 teams will fight it out for the Championship on a new topic again. The winner of the final stage will be declared the Champions and the other team will be the runners-up.

Each round will go on for around 7 minutes.

Teams which will not be among the 8 shortlisted ones are welcome to be present on 13th September at D-6 because, for all that I know and expect, this is going to be interesting and even the audience will be asked for their opinions on the topics being debated upon. And yes, there are prizes to be won too.

Anyways, these were the general rules of the competition. Happy Ganesh Chaturthi. Take care. Chow!!!

Freedom of Speech-3

Hello everybody!!!

Mid-sem preparations going on!! Just wanted to inform you people about some important things. People please note that you cannot submit answers to the caselets staying in two different teams. A person can be a part of 1 team only. Also no increase, decrease or replacement of team members is possible once a team has submitted its answers. These are the general rules but have been stated to avoid confusion and ambiguity.

Hope you people enjoy answering the caselets. Do submit them by 11th September, 2008 by 6AM .

Take Care.

All the best for your mid-sems!!

Chow!!!

Freedom of Speech - 2

Hello Everybody!!

The last date for receipt of entries for the prelims of "FREEDOM OF SPEECH"- The Group Debate Competition has been shifted from 26th August, 2008 to 11th September, 2008 (till 6AM). Send in your entries to kronicle.kiit@gmail.com. The short-listed teams will then be intimated on the 12th of September, 2008. The date of the competition is 13th September, 2008 at 3:00 PM at D-6, Kathajori Campus (i.e. Campus-3). All the best for your mid-semester examinations. Take care.

Adios!!

Freedom of Speech

Hello people!!!

KRONICLE, the literary society of KIIT University, is starting a group debate competition "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" from this year onwards as a part of the Independence Month Programme. This is a new initiative by the society and we hope you all will help us make this event a success.

The concept of this competition is simple. This is a team event, each team consisting of 3-4 members. There will be 8 teams facing each other in 4 knock-out rounds. Each round will have 2 teams selected at random debating on a given topic. In the next level the selected 4 teams will again debate in 2 knock-out rounds on new topics. The final 2 teams will fight it out in the Grand Finale and one will emerge as The Champion!! The teams will be judged by our esteemed panel of jury based on different parameters which will be announced at some later date on this blog.

But before the final event, 8 teams will be short-listed based on the answers that they send to the 3 Caselets given below. Send in your answers to kronicle.kiit@gmail.com on or before 26th of August, 2008. Each answer should have a word limit not exceeding 150 words. Along with the answers send in your team-name and the name of the members of your team and the Mobile numbers of atleast 2 team members. The selected teams will be notified 2 days before the event.

Remember! Winners don't do different things. They do things differently!!! Are you the ONES????

Caselet-1

Ajay is a management trainee at an organization that deals in supplying hardware to customers. His boss Mr. Patil has been thinking of a plan. A consignment, which was due to a Superintendent of Police (SP) who has huge political influence, has not been delivered to him. It had been promised that the consignment would be delivered in 30 days, but so far 45 days have lapsed. Mr. Patil is thinking that he would deliver an empty consignment to this client and since it is a company policy that the SP cannot open the box till somebody from Mr. Patil's organization assists him, he would take advantage of this policy. In the meanwhile, he would substitute the box with the actual deliverable. Ajay finds this unethical, and he asks Mr. Patil, but he says that everything is fair in war and business. In your opinion, what should Ajay do?

CASELET-2

In the psychology department of a college, the Principal of the college announces in a function that Mrs. Reddy would be the next head of the department. Now this comes as a shock to Mrs. Reddy, because she had not been taken into confidence and she liked just teaching her students. The retiring head Mrs. Smith was a capable head and although Mrs. Reddy had, in the past, helped her in her duties, yet she did not want to be tied to that position. The reason why Mrs. Reddy was made head was because there was a policy of the department that the senior-most teachers are made the next head, which obviously Mrs. Reddy satisfied. Now Mrs. Reddy leaves the function and goes back to her house thinking about the whole thing. The question is what should Mrs. Reddy do?

CASELET-3

Amma is a 40 yr old woman who has 2 daughters - 1 is married and the other is doing her 10th standard. She works in a cooperative where 35 other women support her. She makes ropes in the cooperative and earns Rs.600/ month. She was looking for alternative ways of making a little more money. She knows how to make a special kind of pickle. She bought the required stuffs - 8kg of tomatoes at a total cost of Rs.30, 1.5 l of oil at Rs.90, 200 gm bottles at Rs.20 per bottle, miscellaneous ingredients (ginger, garlic etc.) at Rs.57. She has an earning of Rs.203 from this venture by selling these pickle bottles at Rs. 10/bottle when actually the market price for such pickle is Rs.16/bottle. Since she was handpicking her tomatoes, her quality was also maintained. A friend told her that if she did this exercise just 4 times a month then she would be able to earn more than what she is presently earning with her rope trade. A young graduate Sheela heard about Amma’s business and offered her a loan of Rs.15000 to set up pickle making unit plus a Rs. 5000 grant. Should Amma accept this offer??

So people, sit up, tease your brains and apply your thoughts!! Send in your answers not exceeding 150 words on or before 26th of August, 2008 to kronicle.kiit@gmail.com

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