The Arena is a debate-style television show produced by MediaCorp Channel 5 in Singapore. Season 1 of the show was broadcast from January-March 2007. A second season, known as The Arena II, was aired from March-May 2008. The show involves teams of students from secondary schools in Singapore debating against each other on issues of topical interest.
Season 1 of The Arena was broadcast from January-March 2007, and ran for 11 episodes. In each episode, teams from two secondary schools in Singapore debated against each other. The topic for debate was different for each episode. Ten schools competed in the first round, from which the five winning teams and the best-scoring losing team progressed to the quarter-finals. The semi-finals were contested by the three winners and the best-scoring losing team from the quarter-finals. In the Grand Final, telecast on 27 March 2007, the team from the United World College of South East Asia defeated the team from Hwa Chong Institution to win the competition. Each episode was hosted by Adrian Pang.
The judges made up of
* K.K. Seet – Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore
* Eunice Olsen – Nominated Member of Parliament and former Miss Singapore Universe
* Ashraf Safdar – Journalist from the Today newspaper and member of the Debate Association Singapore Executive Committee
The Arena was one of the four nominees for the 2007 International Emmy Award in the 'Children and Young People' category, alongside shows from Australia, Brazil and Poland. (The winning show in the category was The Magic Tree from Poland) The Arena was also one of six nominees for the 'Best Game or Quiz Programme' at the 2008 Asian Television Awards.
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Samantha & her team of 4 managed to get into TOP 10 teams.
There were 2 rounds of preliminary competitions.
THANKS TO ALL DEBATERS WHO CAME DOWN TO SUPPORT THE 2 TEAMS;
Group Pic @ SIM
My teammates!
WHEN THE COMPETITION STARTS!
THE SUPPORTERS:
Cross-Debating teams!
THE RESULTS '06- love the colourFUL colour combination; thro. YEY!!((:
OUR TURNS'- results. THE 2 KC TEAMS!! side by side
"ONE STEP FORWARD; TEAM2 you'r in thro the nxt rd"
I GUESS; THAT'S HOW WE FELT AT THAT MOMENT.
THE RESULTS '06- 3rd grp(s) YEY!!((:
JUDGES!!((:
K K. Seet; Eunice Olsen; Ashraf Sakdar
