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Stella Maris College Parliamentary Debate is the annual British Parliamentary Debate Tournament
held by the Stella Maris College year in their campus in Chennai.

Attended by prestigious institutes all over the country, SMCPD is one of the most revered Debating
Tournaments in the country.

The REC Debating Union have always been regular attendees of this tournament. This is the first
tournament REC DU takes its members to. SMCPD has always proven to be a great experience for the
debaters from our college.

This edition of the tournament was held between 17th of March 2018 to the 19th of March 2018.

The REC contingent consisted of 10 students from the 2nd and 3rd years respectively.

The performance of the students at the tournament was remarkable with one team breaking into
Mains semi-finals, and another team, Arvind Vignesh 3rd year CSE – Sidharth S, 4th year CSE, who
ended as Novice winners. Vaishali Raja, 3rd year CSE was the best speaker of the tournament, and
Vegi Nischay, 3rd year Mechanical, was the third best speaker of the tournament.

The overall performance of the contingent was a good one with most of our debating teams being
within the top 30.

Overall, the tournament was a good run for our contingent and the members of the Debating Union
gained valuable experience.

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