NUDC 2013 : The Battle Begins !

National University Debating Championship 2013 starts today. 100 Teams from 100 Universities all around Indonesia will fight each other through a battle of minds and ideas. This year NUDC takes place at State Polytechnic of Sriwijaya (POLSRI) Palembang from August 25th-30th 2013. This nation sponsored debate competition using British Parliamentary system, which having the rules that only 2 members inside a team and there will be 4 teams in one chamber.

The participants have just under goes an opening ceremony and exhibition debate in the previous day. The exhibitionist are Rivera and Melisa acting as Opening Governement ; Saras and Jane acting as Opening Opposition ; Dungga and Ahdiat acting as Closing Government and last Astri and Edward acting as Closing Opposition.

Today (26/8) several preliminary round are scheduled. Kopertis VII sent 8 teams to the battle field. They're sent based on the previous competition held in this Kopertis. Malang institution still dominating the quotas since we've got 3 of 8 chairs from the Kopertis quota. Those 3 institutions are University of Brawijaya (M.Nur Rizki Oceano P, Aditya Janu P) , State Polytechnic of Malang (Fauzi Akbar, Septian Wijayanti) and University of Muhammadiyah Malang (Anastasya Wattimena, Bangun Muliyatani). We only missed State University of Malang, which unfortunately unable to go through final in Kopertis Battle though they have an outstanding breaking place from the preliminary tab. While, five other chairs of the Kopertis are posessed by University of Jember, University of Airlangga, University, State University of Surabaya, Surabaya University and Widya Mandala University.

The first, second and third winner of NUDC 2013 will get a golden ticket to 2014 World Universities Debate Championship in Chennai, India, along with the best team on the preliminary tab. Yet, different from the last NUDC, this year novice champion will no longer get a WUDC ticket from DIKTI. Without those prize, there is hope that the participant will prefer to win an compete in a high level rather than struggle below the radar. On record, University of Brawijaya is consecutively managed to break through the semifinal in 2011 and 2012 edition of NUDC. Hopefully this year, all the representative from Malang will get those top achievements and be the Champ of NUDC 2013.

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