I am visibly devastated. My entire post on the semi-final motion of the Mayer's Debate Series was deleted. Just like that. And to think, I spent hours crafting it out. The idiocy of it! Imagine the agony of your painstaking labour of sweat and blood going to naught and multiply that angst hundredfold. Only then will you be able to comprehend the magnitude of my devastation.

Seeing as I have absolutely no intention of beginning all over again, I shall do a summary instead.

The motion ran as such: THBT adults make better volunteers than teenagers.

It appears more of a quibble than anything else, doesn't it?

Politics would have been a welcome change.

Anyhow, my senior team was pitted against Singapore Chinese Girls' School, the proposition.

The exchanges were lively although sometimes hazy.

But overall, in terms of style and substantives, I think SCGS was more deserving of the crowning glory. Apparently, the adjudicators echoed these sentiments. But nevertheless, it was a closely matched and interesting debate put forth by both teams.