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''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 show was won by the team from the United World College of South East Asia, who defeated Hwa Chong Institution in the final. The season was hosted by the popular Singapore TV personality Adrian Pang. For ''The Arena II'', Jason Chan replaced Adrian Pang as the show's host. The season was won by Raffles Institution, who defeated Nanyang Girls' High School in the final. ''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.〔()〕 == ''The Arena'' Season 1 == 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Arena (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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