Emmanuel Adebiyi
The Literary and Debating Society, University of Ibadan has scrapped the 2nd Leg for Hall categories at the first round of JAWWAR. This decision was made at the senate meeting held at Kuti Hall JCR on Friday, 27th September 2024.
This was effected after 14 of 22 senators voted in favour of scrapping the second leg. The reasons given includes cost incurred in running the second leg and problem of getting judges among others.
Although, there were arguments that scrapping the second leg would reduce the amount of first time speakers that get to speak at the competition as hall constituencies get to field first timers at the first leg since there's a second leg for possible come back.
However, the final decision as voted by the senate stands.
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