This year, we’ve decided to compile a check list of things you need ( or might want ) to bring to the tournament. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment on this post or email thsdc.info@gmail.com!!

1. Yourself ( Obviously )
2. Stationary

• Writing instruments ( Pen / Pencil / Colored Pen / High-lighter etc. )
• Paper ( We won’t be providing paper!!! don’t have enough budget for it :( )
• Stopwatch ( Or something that helps you time. We won’t be allowing cellphones during prep-time!! )

3. Computer ( If you still need to do research. )

• Charger
• There’s free wireless internet access on the 1st floor of King David dormitory and in John XXIII Conference Hall.
• If you’re staying in double or single room, please bring a LAN line to access the internet. There’s no wireless in the room.
• We’re not sure if there’s printing service this year but don’t get your hopes up. Please try to print everything you might need in advance before coming to our tournament!!

4. Mobile Phone & its charger ( Yes, we know all of you have one. Please bring it and turn it on in case we can’t find you!! )

5. Toiletries

• Soap
• Shampoo
• Toothbrush & Toothpaste
• Towel

6. Insect Repellent ( The mosquitoes in our campus is famously fierce and big )

7. Clothing

• 3 sets of polite casual wear… or uniform if your institution prefer. Polite casual wear = no mini shorts & mini skirt, no ragged clothing. no tank top or singlets (สายเดี่ยว) by itself. No jandles or sandals without straps. Dress with respect to our University’s campus.
• ( EDIT ) We’re providing free tournament t-shirt. All participants are required to wear it on 7th November!! It looks nice in photos!
• Formal wear for break-night! It’s gonna be grand! Example of dress code here.
• ( EDIT ) All participants are required to wear their full uniform on 9th November!!
• WARM CLOTHING ( I know it’s Thailand, but our air conditioning is FAMOUS for causing hypothermia. )

8. ( Added on 31.10.2010 ) Camera!! There’ll be wayyy too many photo opportunities… I mean, it’s not everyday that you’d get to dress up in formal wear?

Phew, hope that’s everything. Will keep updating this post if we have anything else we want you to bring!

Dear institutions…

Today is the last day for payment ( unless you’ve negotiated with us earlier this week ). Please send us the scanned ( or photographed) copy of the transfer slip to thsdc.info@gmail.com to confirm your registration.

Today is also the last chance for you to edit your registration using the excel sheet we’ve sent to your contact person’s email. Any changes after this will not be reflected in the certificates and awards.

Many schools decided to send more observers and adjudicators in the last minute. Please be informed that no observer and additional adjudicator registration will be accepted after TODAY. We’re confirming our booking on food, accommodation and etc. today and it’ll be extremely difficult for us to make change after tonight.

The website has been updated with loads of new information to help you prepare for the tournament. Do check www.thsdc.au.eduoften to catch these updates!

Look forward to seeing you all!!

Yours sincerely

5THSDC committee

A lot of institutions are using university students as their judge to complete the N=1 rule. This automatically means :

1. Your institution is covering their registration fees.
2. They’ll be staying on the 13th floor shared dormitory with the debaters and not in rooms with other invited university judges. Unless of course you’re willing to pay their double or single room fees which is 3,200 THB and 4,500 THB respectively.
3. That particular judge needs to stay for at least 6 preliminary rounds in order for you to break! The whole objective of enforcing n=1 rule is to encourage teachers and non-debating debaters to be more involved in the activity and help the club sustain in the long run. If you don’t want to grow more adjudicators, then at least find judges who’d stay for 6 rounds. It is very unfair on teams who managed to find people unfamiliar to debate from their own institutions, and made them adjudicate for the whole tournament. More over, it screws up the tab and that will delay the tournament!!

Dear Thailand’s debate community,

Assumption University is hosting the 5th Thailand High-School National Debating Championship on 6th – 9th November this year, that’s Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. It’d be awesome if all of you ( both active and non-active judges ) can join us. We have about 50 teams from 16 schools this year and we’ll DESPERATELY need judges. ( Minimum of 25 Chairs for all prelim rounds….? ). Uni judges who aren’t included in any school’s n=1 rule will be entitled to free access to accommodation, food and possibly transportation. We’ll provide transportation from Huamak – Bangna if there’s enough people to fill the van, will keep you all up to date regarding this. If you need invitation letter ( for you to miss your classes on Monday and Tuesday ), send us an email at thsdc.info@gmail.com and we’ll give you a copy.

Please register using the excel sheet here and send it to thsdc.info@gmail.com by Monday evening – 1st October 2010. ( Or else we can’t provide accommodation or transportation for you :( ) If possible, please try to register as an institution? I mean, if everyone send their details individually, we might lose someone’s registration by accident no?

Please please please be at the break-rounds on Monday and Tuesday also. We don’t want to lose our good breaking judges do we?

The tournament schedule can be found here.

For those of you who are bringing your own car, please mention in the registration sheet that you need overnight parking and state the number plate.

We look forward to welcoming you all at our tournament!

Ps. Formal wear for break night, we might be using the museum :p

To all those who’re planning to park your car at our dorm for the while tournament, PLEASE GIVE US THE NUMBER PLATE OF THAT CAR!!!! Or else the dormitory will not allow you to park. Tell us what car you’re parking via thsdc.info@gmail.com by 29th October.

This is actually very important and that’s why we’ve included it in our registration form earlier. But hardly anyone told us the number plate. Please confirm ASAP!

Formal wear is the actual dress code for this year’s break-night so dress UP! If you don’t know what formal wear is, here’re some pictures!

Guys :

Gals :

In no particular order, here’s the registration summary so far :

Note : The registration was done via google forms. This means that we need to manually replace every latest update sent from institutions by hand. If an institution make changes often, we also get confused and tend to mix up your registration. Since it’s the last stage of details submission and to prevent any further confusions, we’ve decided to turn off google forms and summarise what we have in excel sheet and send it to institutions by email. Please make your changes in that excel we’ve sent you. Every school should received such emails by today. Thank you for your co-operation.

Registration for 5th THSDC is officially closed. Please contact the organising committee at thsdc.info@gmail.com if you still want to register.

Due to unavoidable circumstances, we were unable to send you email confirmation before the end of the payment period. Thus we’re extending both registration details submission and payment to Friday 29th October 2010. This means that you can make changes to your team registration till Friday 29th October 2010. Registration & Payment summary will be sent to all registered emails by Wednesday 27th October 2010.

I sincerely apologise for the mistake on my part and for any inconveniences caused. Thank you for your kind patience.

We’re now allowing 5 teams per institutions! You may register the details of your 4th and 5th team by sending the details to thsdc.info@gmail.com.

Please transfer the registration fees to the account below :

Account Details

Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited
Account Name : AU CSLEL 2010 : 5TH THAILAND HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE
Account Number : 418-1-33884-2

No payment will be accepted without receipt/ payment slip/ evidence of payment.

Please email the scanned copy of the slip to ( thsdc.info@gmail.com ) before 25th October 2010 at 5 pm. with the following information about the payment :

Institution Name : ( Full English Name )
Date of Transfer : DD/MM/YYYY
Amount Transfered : xxxx THB
For no. of Teams : x Teams
For no. of Adjudicators : ( extra adjudicator only ) x Extra Adjudictors
For no. of Observer : ( if have any ) x Observers
For extra accommodation : ( if requested and approved single/ double/ triple room )

Payment is non-refundable under any circumstances

We apologise for any inconveniences this mistake caused.

Motion under theme of “Economy”.

This house believes that FTA does more harms than good for Thailand

FTA = Free Trade Agreement

Thus the full motion is “This house believes that Free Trade Agreement ( FTA ) does more harms than good for Thailand”

This table is arranged according to the registration order.

Congratulations to Ms. Arpaporn Tangkrisanakajorn (Pon) from Patumwan Demonstration School who’ll represent the high-school students as a DCA in this year’s adjudication core!

In response to the overwhelming demand last year, we’ve decided to include high-school representative in the adjudication core. The current DCA from AU, CU, MUIC and TU will go through all the applications and vote based on qualifications. The basic criteria is simple :

1. Applicant must be a student from a secondary institution.
2. The student may not be regarded as an adjudicator for n=1 slot.
3. Applicant must have attended at least 1 THSDC and 1 other nationally recognised tournament.
4. Adjudication experience is required.

How do you apply?

Send an email to thsdc.info@gmail.com with the following information :

1. Full name
2. Institution you’re currently from
3. Debate CV ( detailing all of your debate related experience and year it occurred )
4. Why should you become a DCA for 5th THSDC?
5. From your experience, what were the problems with the past THSDC adjudication pool? How would you solve those problems this year?

Application submission deadline : 9th October 2010

Registration for 5th THSDC is open! Please read the terms and conditions , code of conduct and payment details before registering. For more information on the registration, please go to the registration page

The log-in system is not yet available, you will be informed once it is. Please hang on!

Click here to register for 5th THSDC NOW !

We regret to inform you that the press conference is cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. However, PR materials and updates will be made available through this website.

We apologise for any inconveniences caused and we look forward to hear from you all.

Yes we are well aware that there’s SAT test on Saturday 6th November. But we aren’t so worried about it because as usual, adjudication test will be in the morning. We’ve also added the council meeting after lunch. The first round will be starting at 3 p.m.

We’ve been informed that SAT test will be over at 1:45 p.m. at the latest. Thus we believe that’s plenty of time for students who take SAT test in Bangkok and Chonburi to travel to Suvarnabhumi Campus which is in the middle between Bangkok and Chonburi. Though we still need someone from your institution to be here and register all of you in the morning, so please send someone.

We will be releasing the official tournament schedule by the end of this week so stay tuned!

Wish you all the best for 5th THSDC preparations.

The 5th THSDC Training on Sunday 22nd August was fun! There were 55 participants altogether. We would like to thank the following institutions for taking part in the training.

1. Sarasas Ektra
2. Mahidol Wittayanusorn School
3. Surasakmontree school
4. Nawamintrachinuthit Triamudomsuksanomklao
5. Chonkanyanukoon
6. Prasarnmit Demonstration

Special thanks to 2 lovely trainers from Chulalongkorn University for helping us out! Photos are coming up.

You may view the training materials here :

• Beginner Session
• Intermediate Session
• Advanced / Adjudicator Session
• Adjudication Sheet for 5th THSDC

To help you all prepare, we will keep adding more debate related materials on the website until the tournament starts so keep coming back!

1. Sarasas Ektra
2. Mahidol Wittayanusorn School
3. Rawiwan ( incomplete)
4. Santa Cruz Convent School ( double registration, please confirm with thsdc.info@gmail.com )
5. Surasakmontree school
6. Nawamintrachinuthit Triamudomsuksanomklao
7. Ekamai International School ( incomplete )
8. Chonkanyanukoon
9. Prasarnmit Demonstration

We look forward to seeing you all at the training on Sunday!

We’ve received registration from the following institutions.

1. Surasakmontree school (incomplete)
2. Santa Cruz Convent School (incomplete)
3. Ekamai International School (incomplete)
4. Rawiwan (incomplete)
5. Mahidol Wittayanusorn Schoo (incomplete)
6. Chonkanyanukoon (incomplete)
7. Sarasas Ektra (incomplete)

All the registration seems incomplete. Please make sure that you login with the username and password you set and add the participants before Friday 20th August.

Please also note that the training is now on the Sunday 22nd August.

The official THSDC training has been shifted to Sunday 22nd August 2010.

Provincial Electricity Authority recently announced that electricity of the university’s area will be cut for maintainence on the 21st August 2010. Thus we were forced to move the training session.

The training registration period will now be extended to Friday 20th August 2010.

We apologise for any inconveniences.

Good day everyone!

We’re back again for the 5th year! And to get you all ready for the tournament on 6th – 9th November, we’re hosting one official training on the Sunday 22nd August 2010.

This training is completely FREE. Here’s some details :

• Training Registration Deadline => 20th August
• 08:00 AM – 05:00 PM
• Sunday 22nd August 2010
• Number of participants per institution is limited to equivalent of 3 teams ( 4 persons per team ) and 1 leader ( can be teacher or student ). Thus maximum of 13 persons per institution.
• ALL participants are required to participate in one of the sessions. We believe that teachers and parents should know as much about debate as students. No participants will be allowed to just stand by and watch.
• Attendance is not required for teams wishing to participate in the actual tournament.

Downloads :

• Invitation Letter in English
• Invitation Letter in Thai
• Training Details & Schedule in English
• Tournament Fact Sheet in English
• Tournament Fact Sheet in Thai
• Map to & around Assumption University

Click here for more information on the training.

Click here to register now! ( Click on ‘Register’ under the login interface )