Out of the 60 teams which participated in the prelims, 2 teams were selected for the finals. The team aThe Tsars” had Chaitali Roy, Shirshendu Chatterjee, and Tanya Sharma from the second year students and the team “Le democrats” had Anand Ota, Kumar Anubhav and Sandeep Gautam from the first year students.
The final was divided into 5 rounds. The first round was a court case round where both the teams were given a case. The seniors represented an environmental campaign agency and had filed a case of willful pollution of the environment against an organization represented by the juniors. In this round both the teams gave valid points in defence of their cases.
The second round was a debate on aEnvironmentalism- the latest fada. The juniors supported the motion while the seniors opposed it. The third round was the question answer round where each team had to ask relevant questions to the other and the other team had to answer in a similar vein. The fourth round was the audience round where the audience asked questions to the teams.
The last round saw the judges questioning the teams. Mr. Srimoy Kar, the chief guest asked whether development being opposed in the name of preserving the environment was a fad or not. The Tsars were declared the winners and Anand Ota from the Le Democrats was judged the best speaker of the day. The winners were given cash prizes.
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