THE ROYAL INTERVARSITY DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIP

11:14 AM / Comments (2) / by Anonymous




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.

2 comments:

Unknown @ December 25, 2009 at 6:36 PM

Waney, you have truly exceed my expectations when I saw your ranking as no. 35, which is the highest for any UMT debater.. I hope many more will achieve higher rankings like you, and fellas, keep up the great job. There's a reason why I always keep humor in our group, so always so use it to your advantage. ;D

Anonymous @ December 27, 2009 at 3:58 PM

hey jimmz.. im not that great.. still got a lot 2 learn.. anyway ill help the team in any way tat i could!!