Saturday, March 22, 2008

IDEA-NFL Singapore Results!

Singapore, the newest country in the IDEA-NFL Guest Country Qualifier system, has just completed its tournament and is ready to send competitors to Las Vegas! Held at the Anglo-Chinese Junior College and featuring roughly 40 competitors from 6 schools, the tournament featured original oratory, dramatic interpretation, humorous interpretation, international extemporaneous speaking and duo interpretation. Results are as follows:

Duo Interp
2nd Alternate for US Nationals: Charmaine Poh and Rebecca Kwan from (Anglo-Chinese Junior College - ACJC)
1st Alternate: Nicholas Ngo and Lesley Sia (ACJC)
National Qualifier (1st place): Mark Cheng and Yin Ling Ng (ACJC)

International Extemp
1st Alternate: Ho Wee Seng (Anderson Junior College)
National Qualifier: Arun Vignesh s/o Selvaraju (Raffles Junior College)

Dramatic Interp
2nd Alternate: Dharshini Lokaswarn (ACJC)
1st Alternate: Frances Lee (ACJC)
Qualifier: Sarah-Ann Lee Meixia

Humorous Interp
2nd Alternate: John Cheah (ACJC)
1st Alternate: Xun Wei (ACJC)
National Qualifier: Gideon Yap (ACJC)

Original Oratory
Finalist: Nurul Sharafudin (National Junior College)
Finalist: Geran Wong (Millennia Institute)
2nd Alternate: Shreya Vipul Sanghvi (Victoria Junior College)
1st Alternate: Lian Kim Selby (ACJC)
National Qualifier (2nd place): Alexander Woon (Raffles Junior College)
National Qualifier (1st place): Sarah Yip (Victoria Junior College)

I would like to thank again Geetha Creffield from Anglo-Chinese Junior College along with her students Disha and Elizabeth for working hard to make this tournament a huge success. Also thanks to all the judges, ushers and volunteers for helping make this competition run smoothly. See some of you in Las Vegas and we hope to see the rest of you at next year's Qualifying Tournament!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Those are great pictures Alex, and a great report! I'm so glad to hear the tournament was a success.