Following the first round with three competitions in Vinh Chau, Tran De and Cu Lao Dung in November, the Final of the competition was held at the Peoples’ Cultural Centre in Soc Trang on Sunday 2nd December. The three Round 1 winning teams to make it to the Final were THPT Nguyễn Khuyến (Vĩnh Châu Town), THPT Vĩnh Hải (Vĩnh Châu Town) and THPT Đoàn Văn Tố (Cù Lao Dung District).
The Final followed the same format as for the Round 1 contests, consisting of a speech, a three-part quiz and a skit performance. The speeches were excellently presented by the three speakers and at the end of the speech section, only 1 point separated the teams. In the quiz section, the individual and the team-contests were nail-biting. There were many anxious moments as team members had to decide to go for their buzzer early, and risk losing points if they gave the wrong answer, or wait. Vĩnh Hải took an early lead, spurred-on by their eager supporters, but Đoàn Văn Tố and Nguyễn Khuyến fought back with their supporters cheering them on. Đoàn Văn Tố took an incredible risk to try to guess the column word in the crossword – to get it right would earn them 10 points, but a wrong answer would cost them 5 points. Amazingly, Đoàn Văn Tố guessed correctly – and their supporters went wild. At the end of the quiz section only 4 points separated the three teams. All teams repeated the plays they had presented in Round 1, and again delivered very talented performances.
While the judges were finalizing their scores, the enthusiastic audience had the chance to answer quiz questions to win prizes. There was tension in the air as the teams were recalled to the stage to hear the judges scoring for the plays. At last the moment came when the Master of Ceremony announced the play scores, and the final scores in the competition. An emotional Vĩnh Hải listened to their name read out as the winner, closely followed by Đoàn Văn Tố and Nguyễn Khuyến, and many eyes filled with tears.
As one of the project’s environmental awareness raising activities, this high school competition was jointly organized by the GIZ project together with the Department of Education and Training, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Forest Protection Sub-department to raise awareness of climate change and the importance of mangrove forests. People from the whole province will have the chance to learn more about these important topics and to watch the exciting competition rounds as the competition will be broadcasted weekly on Soc Trang TV1 as a series, with the first episode showing on 16.12.2012 at 1:00 pm.
Reported by Paul
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