On 3rd to 8th of December 2009, a royal intervarsity debating championship was held at Universiti Malaya Kuala Lumpur. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu had sent out 3 teams to compete, consisting of 2 senior teams and 1 junior team. Unfortunately, the result is none our teams precede to the quarter finals as we can’t make it in the preliminary rounds.
First of all we would like to thank our coach, Mr. Wan Ahmad Azimi as he support and teach us the basic technique on debating. Speacial thanks also to Hanusia , Bariah, Shafwan , Aizat and Manutha for making this team possible and for all your support and guidance.
From the post mortem we conclude that the reasons for loses is yet coming from our part. As all of the debaters are beginners and first time debaters except for one, they are lacking of exposure and experience to handle these king of debating tournament. We also found out that we should change our format of debating, and pay more attention on the issues. We should also master the key issues regarding on what’s going on in the world. Never the less we should increase our own general knowledge and be aware of the current updates.
To make this better we suggest that the English Debate team should do frequent training and brainstorming to improve our current state of mind. We also suggest that more exposure of other tournament will also help for the team to improve thus we should be involved and participate in many tournament to come.
participants & speaker standings:
senior category, 72 participants
UMT senior A
DG. SYAZWANI BINTI AG. NANAK -35
MUHD ASHRAF BIN ABD RAHMAN -48
HANITHA DEVI D/O KUMAR -52
UMT senior B
MOHD SYAZWAN BIN AZIZI -67
DURGAHYENI MOHGANA D/O SELVAM -68
SIVA PRAKASH S/O ARIKRISHNAN -69
MOHD AZLAN BIN ABD MANAN -71
junior category, 91 participants
UMT junior:
MOHD AUFAR BIN MISBAHUDDIN -55
PURNIMA D/O KADARESAN -59
MAHFUZAH BINTI CHE ABDULLAH -62
MOHD ASRAF BIN MOHD ISA
hope for the best on next tournament.
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