Rules and Regulations
1. Administration and Field Organization
1.1. Organization
Competition: |
8th Hongkong Inter-City schools Real Time Debate on Net |
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Organized by： |
Education Bureau Campus TV and Video Conference Focus Working Group |
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Supported by： |
.Education Bureau (EDB) |
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Baoan Education Science Training Center |
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Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers |
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| Nanhoi District EducationBureau | |
| Kongtung District, Ningpo Education Bureau | |
| Advanced info-Tech Co. Ltd. | |
Co-organized by： |
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| HK Association of Debaters | |
| 鳴辯無限 | |
| 辯論播客 | |
| 香港教育學院校友會 | |
Hong Kong Baptist University Education Studies Alumni Association |
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Hong Kong Institute of Education Putonghua Speech and Debate Association |
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| Universal Net Call Pty Ltd | |
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Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Branch Primary School |
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| NanHai Informatiion Technology School | |
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Special Sponsored by： |
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Sponsored by： |
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| ATECH COMPUTER LTD | |
Media sponsored by： |
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Consultant： |
Former Legislative Councilor (Information Technology): Mr. SIN Chung-kai |
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Department of Information Engineering, CUHK: Professor WONG Po-choi |
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Hong Kong Education City Limited Chief Executive Officer: Ms CHENG Ming-fung |
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Hong Kong University Faculty of Education Information and Technology Department: Dr YUEN Hoi-kau |
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Curriculum and Instruction: Professor LEE Fong-lok |
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Electronic Engineering: Professor CHAM Wai-kuen |
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University Multi-Media Creative Centre: Dr Yu Chik-lee |
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Chinese Information Technology Assocation: Professor CHAN Tak-yah |
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China Welfare Institute Computer Center: Mr. WONG Chung-chen |
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Beijing Educational Network & Information Centre: Dr QIN Zu-jun |
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Foshan Nanhai Education Bureau: Mr. ZHENG Lan-zhen |
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Information Technology Association Chairman: Dr TSUI Tak-ming |
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Longman Hong Kong Education Sales Director: Mr. Simon NG |
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President of the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers: Mr. YEUNG Yiu-chung |
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St Bonaventure College and High School, School Headmaster: Mr. CHUNG Wai-leung |
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Working Committee |
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Chairman： |
Mr. LEUNG Kam-chung (St Bonaventure College and High School) |
Vice-chairman： |
Mr. KWOK Chi-man (Yan Chai Hospital LAN Chi Pat Memorial Secondary School) |
The Secretariat： |
Mr. Francis CHUN (St Bonaventure College Information Technology Development Centre) |
Treasurer： |
Ms YEUNG Pui-san (Joint School Information Technology Association) |
Liaison： |
Ms LAU Wai-mei (St Bonaventure College and High School) |
Technical Support： |
Mr. YEUNG Yui-wing (PLK Wu Chung Secondary School) |
Broadband Network Support： |
Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited |
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Chief Adjudicator ： |
Cantonese sections - Mr.LEE Ching-kuen (Hong Kong Debate Association) ; |
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Debate Timing： |
Mr. TSANG Wai-chun (St Bonaventure College & High School – I.T. Development Centre) |
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Graphic Design： |
Ms May LAU (St Bonaventure College & High School) |
Webpage Design： |
Mr. Richard LEE (St Bonaventure College & High School) |
General Affairs： |
Mr. IP Tse-hin (Hong Kong Federations Workers of Teacher Association) |
Photography： |
Mr. LIU Kui-man (CCC Rotary Secondary School) |
Beijing District Liaison： |
Dr. QIN Zu-jun (Beijing Educational Network & Information Centre) |
Shanghai District Liaison： |
Mr. TANG Chun-lui (China Children's Palace) |
Putonghua MC & Translation： |
Ms DING Gengzhen (Po Yan Catholic Primary School) |
1.2. Debate sections
- A. 【GD-HK Primary Schools Cantonese section】
- B. 【GD-HK Secondary Schools Cantonese section】
- C. 【Beijing – GD - HK Secondary Schools English section】
- D. 【Beijing – GD - HK Secondary Schools Putonghua section】
- E. 【Shanghai – HK Secondary Schools English section】
- F. 【Shanghai – HK Secondary Schools Putonghua section】
- G. 【Secondary Schools English section】
- H. 【Secondary Schools Putonghua section】
- I. 【Primary Schools English section】
- J. 【Primary Schools Putonghua section】
- K. [Inter-city invitation English Section]
1.3. Application Procedure Download Application Form (Pdf , Words)
| For Shanghai: | Please apply to Chinese Welfare Institute Debate Liaison Office: Mr. TANG Chun-lui Tel: (86)-21-6249-8665 |
| For Beijing: | Please apply to Beijing Education Network & Information Centre: Dr. QIN Zu-jun/ Mr. ZHU Chuan; Tel: (86)-10-6652-1566-ext526 |
| For Ningbo: | Please apply to Ningbo Tai Gu Primary School: School Principal Ma Ren; Tel: (86)-574-8780-1500 |
| For Guangdong: | Please apply to Guangdong Nanhai Education Bureau: Ms ZHENG Zhan-wen; Tel: (86)-757-8628-8490 |
| For Taiwan: | Please apply to Taiwan Taipei Mu Zha Junior High School: Mr. LUO Chang-long; Tel: (886)-02-6630-6608 |
| For Malaysia: | Please apply to Malaysia Sabah Tshung Tsin Secondary School: |
| Other region: | Please contact apply to Hong Kong Debate Secretariat Francis CHUN Tel: 3153-8678 Jones CHENG Tel: 3568-2380 St Bonaventure College & High School I.T. Development Centre: Tel: 2321-7324 |
Enter the competition: Free of charge.
Multiple section application are welcome.
To apply:
Step 1. Download the Application Form (Word) or (PDF) file
http://www.jsit.net/debate-8/form.doc
Step 2. File in all details
Step 3. Attachment the Application Form and sent to Debate Secretariat
Email: admin@jsit.net
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Fax the completed Form to Debate Secretariat
Fax: 3568-2468 / 2321-7343
| Venue 1 | Affirmative Side at HOME school |
Venue 2 |
Opposition Side at HOME school |
Venue 3 |
Chairperson with the adjudicators to host the debate at St. Bonaventure College Co-teaching Room via Internet. |
1.4. Debate Network Setting (Please click here for the diagram)
1.5. Debate Environment Setting Audio Setup
1.5.1. Debate Venue: School shall provide a quiet room.
For example: a corner at the Library. Fixed location such as studio or function room is even better.
We shall assist Debate school to setup “Distance Classroom” and share the necessary information and experience on Video Conferencing.
1.5.2. Equipment
If any schools do not have the necessary equipment, we shall lend it for the debate.
1.5.3. Video Conferencing setup workshop
Debate school shall assign at least one staff (i.e. technician) to attend the workshop on how to setup the equipment.
1.5.4. Backdrop and Desktop name card
Debate team shall arrange the backdrop and desktop name card (as in the diagram).
1.5.5. Broadband service
Internet service point should be available for the video conferencing.
1.5.6. Broadband bandwidth
Uplink and Downlink bandwidth should be higher than 10 Mbps for best video and audio result.
If bandwidth is lower than required, we shall assist to solve this problem.
1.5.7. Video Equipment Setup
HDTV is preferred as display unit for the debate..
1.5.8. Technical Support
We shall provide assistance to solve the bandwidth and video conferencing technical problem.
For Enquires:
Debate Support: |
Mr. Francis CHUN (Tel：3153-8678 / Mobile: 9220 3368） |
General Enquiry: |
St Bonaventure College I.T. Development Centre (Tel: 2321-7324). |
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The Secretariat: Jones CHENG (Tel: 3568-2380). |
| 1st Working Committee Meeting： |
2008.09.10（Wed） |
2nd Working Committee Meeting： |
2008.09.13（Sat）10:30am |
Publicity： |
2008.09.16（Tues） |
Application Deadline： |
2008.10.03（Fri）4:00pm |
3rd Working Committee Meeting： |
2008.10.03（Fri）6:00pm |
Debate Schedule announce on： |
2008.10.15（Wed） |
Debate Video Conference Setup workshop： |
2008.10.18（Sat）10:30am ~ 12:00noon |
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Debate Competition： |
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4th Working Committee Meeting： |
2009.06.12（Fri） |
Prize Award Ceremony： |
2009.07.15（Wed）Hong Kong St. Bonaventure College and High School Hall |
1.7. Prize (Debate on Net Working Committee decision is final)
| A. | GD-HK Primary Schools Cantonese section(GrandTech盃) |
| Best Debater (彩城盃) | |
| B. | GD-HK Secondary Schools Cantonese section (信興科技盃) |
| Best Debater (彩城盃) | |
| C. | Beijing – GD - HK Secondary Schools English section(億圖系統盃) |
| Best Debater (今日電腦盃) | |
| D. | Beijing – GD - HK Secondary Schools Putonghua section(e-print盃) |
| Best Debater (今日校園盃) | |
| E. | Shanghai – HK Secondary Schools English section(創興銀行盃) |
| Best Debater (Corel 盃) | |
| F. | Shanghai – HK Secondary Schools Putonghua section(ATECH SYSTEM盃) |
| Best Debater (Aero Creative 盃) | |
| G. | Secondary Schools English section(香港寬頻盃) |
| Best Debater (至高恆進盃) | |
| H. | Secondary Schools Putonghua section(先鋒電子盃) |
| Best Debater (北京普通話培訓 盃) | |
| I. | Primary Schools English section(中國電訊盃) |
| Best Debater (ICT盃) | |
| J. | Primary Schools Putonghua section(九龍樂善堂盃) |
| Best Debater (最佳辯論員) | |
| 最佳展示獎 (環速盃) |
2. Purpose
2.1. Promote inter-school Debate activities, train-up logical thinking and inspire for wisdom.
2.2. Realize “Distance Learning” via internet for multi-points video conferencing.
3. The Competition
| 3.1. | Since Hong Kong District is the base to host the competition, all debate are arranged to match with overseas schools. |
| 3.2. | Debate on Net will arrange at least one match for all applied school in any section. |
| 3.3. | Schools are welcome to compete in multiple sections. No maximum limit on the number of application. (According the situation, Debate on Net will arrange debate for school at least one match for each section.) |
| 3.4. | Debate teams matching will be decided by a draw. The process will be broadcast online live. |
| 3.5. | Competition is in “Mixed and knock out”. |
| 3.6. | Each section has prizes for the Champion, 1st runner-up and one “Best speaker” from the Final. |
| 3.8. | Working Committee has the right to determine applied team's qualification for Debate.Our decision is final. |
3.11 Hong Kong teams will match with overseas teams, please refer to 4.7
4. Rules and regulations
4.1. Chairperson
4.1.1. Chairperson hosts the match.
4.1.2. He/she announces the debate motion, rules, introduce adjudicators, debate teams and conduct the overall match.
4.2. Timer
4.2.1. A Timer program is used for timing and display the time used during the debate for all participant as a reference.
Time used by speakers is timed by debate official at Control centre.
4.3. Participated teams
4.3.1. Four speakers from each team: (1) Captain; (2) 1st speaker; (3) 2nd speaker and (4) Concluding speaker.
4.3.2. All team members must be student from the school they represented.
4.3.3. During the debate, speakers may use reminder card. Size of the card must not be larger than A5. Reference book is NOT allowed.
4.4. Debate Format
4.4.1. There is a brief session for speakers to test the audio volume in turn with a brief speech.
In case the testing speech is too long, the chairperson can interrupt the testing.
4.4.2. Speech delivery order and time allowed is as below:
Captain of the Affirmative side: |
4 minutes |
Captain of the Opposition side: |
4 minutes |
First speaker of the Affirmative side: |
3 minutes |
First speaker of the Opposition side: |
3 minutes |
Second speaker of the Affirmative side: |
3 minutes |
Second speaker of the Opposition side: |
3 minutes |
For both team to prepare their concluding speech: |
<4 minutes break> |
Concluding speaker of the Opposition side: |
4 minutes |
Concluding speaker of the Affirmative side: |
4 minutes |
4.4.5. For speech delivery exceed allowed time, Grace Period is 15 seconds.
4.4.6. After speeches are delivered, a short break for adjudicators to add up the marks.
Adjudicator(s) may comment and advise students for further improvement on skills and technique..
Chairperson shall then announce the result.
4.5. Speech Delivery
| 4.5.1. | Speaker starts to deliver his/her speech after the bell rung. |
| 4.5.2. | Bell will “ring” once reminding speaker there is one minute to go before allowed time expired. |
| 4.5.3. | Bell will “ring” twice when allowed time is up. Speaker should finish his/her speech to avoid penalty. |
| 4.5.4. | After the Grace Period (15 seconds), bell will ring continuously for marks will be deducted as penalty. |
| 4.5.5. | Penalty scheme: 5 marks for every 5 seconds or less Further 5 marks for another 5 seconds or less, So on and so forth. Penalty applies to the team total score of each adjudicator. |
| 4.5.6. | Taken the network delay in the measure, Timer provided by the control centre can only be considered as a reference. Chairperson’s time is official. |
| 4.5.7. | In case of network problem, chairperson shall decide if speaker should repeat the spoken part or the whole speech |
| 4.5.8. | During the debate, NO communication is allowed other than their teammates or technical support staff. |
| Violation of this may lead to disqualification. |
4.6. Marking Scheme
| 4.6.1. | Each speaker can score a maximum of 120 marks, content count for 40%; delivery 30%; organization 20%; poise 10% and co-operation 20%. |
| 4.6.2. | Each adjudicator shall cast a vote for the winning team based on the result in his/her score sheet. |
| Team with higher number of vote is the winner of the match. | |
| 4.6.3. | Best speaker is decided by the marks based on "Speaker score ranking". |
| 4.6.4. | Based on the mark sheet from each adjudicators, speaker with highest score has 8 points, second highest has 7 points, etc. |
| In case of same score, they share the same points. | |
| 4.6.5. | Then add up points from all adjudicators, speaker with most points is the "Best speaker of the match" |
| 4.6.6. | In case two or more speakers got the same highest points, adjudicators shall decide by vote for the "Best speaker of the match". |
4.7 Scoring and Final selection scheme
4.7.1
Inter-city sections
For all matches, matches from Hong Kong will play with overseas teams
4.7.2
After the 1st round; Each region will have the best (1, 2 or 4) teams to promote to next teams.
(Any section with 10 or less teams will have 1 team promote to next round;
Any section with 15 or less teams will have 2 teams promote to next round;
Any section with 20 or less teams will have 4 teams promote to next round )
4.7.3
The second round matches arrangement will be decided by lucky draw.
4.7.4
Format
Debate school play at their own region
Adjudicators may be from one or different region.
Timer program will display from the Control Centre.
4.7.5
Selection Scheme
Result is decided by number of votes. For example, if score is 3:0, winner got 3 points; if score is 2:1, winner got 2 points.
If more than one team has the same highest score, promotion will decide by 4.7.6
4.7.6
If more than one team has the same scores, whether it has “Best speaker” will also be considered.
If more than one team has the same highest score, promotion will decide by 4.7.7
4.7.7
If more than one team has the same scores, the total marks from the previous round match result will be considered.
If more than one team has the same highest score, it will be decide by a lucky draw.
5. Crisis
5.1.1. Upon any unfair incident disrupting the debate, chairperson, adjudicators or Captain of both teams has the right to halt the debate.
5.1.2. For any argument, chairperson and adjudicators shall discuss and make the final decision.
For Enquires:
Debate Support: |
Mr. Francis CHUN (Tel：3153-8678/ Mobile: 9220 3368） |
General Enquiry: |
St Bonaventure College I.T. Development Centre (Tel: 2321-7324). |
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The Secretariat: Jones CHENG (Tel: 3568-2380). |