Caption: The Champion Team - NTU receiving the Champion TrophyMahbub Manik
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Sat May 24 2008
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Sat May 24 2008
AUDC 2008...
Super NTU Clinched the Top Title
Curtain Fall of Asia’s Premier Debating Champ
Caption: The Champion Team - NTU in Final Debate
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore team clinched the title of the premier debating tournament of Asia -AUDC 2008 four years after becoming host to the Asian Universities Debating Championship in 2004. Ateneo De Manila - ADMNU became runners up. ADMNU won consecutively last three tournaments. The leading and the most prestigious tournament of the Asia finished with a great accomplishment on last Wednesday in the International Islamic University of Malaysia-IIUM. The tournament started on May 14, 2008. Around 90 teams and more than hundred adjudicators participated in the tournament from East Asian, South-East Asian and some South Asian Universities. The tournament followed its own format known as Asian Debating Style.
CA and DCAs 2008
The Chief Adjudicator of the tournament was Muhammad Abdul Latif (IIU)
The Deputy Chief Adjudicators’ were:
Sir Martin Cortez (The Philippines),
Priyam Saraf (Singapore),
Ravi Prajapati (Thailand)
and Rashedul Hasan Stalin (Bangladesh).
Organizing Committee
Convener: Yem, Deputy Convener: Yacoob, Tournament Director: Taha, Asst Tournament Director: Momin, Secretary: Fairuz, Financial controller: Nurizzati Sponsor: Danial, Programme Coordinator: Mahees, Liason: Asmaa, AUDC officer: Sani
Past year’s hosts and winners
1st AUDC 2005
Hosts: NTU, Singapore 2005, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: NTU
2nd AUDC 2006
Hosts: ADMU, Philippines 2006, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: ADMU
3rd AUDC 2007
Hosts: ITB, Indonesia 2007, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: NUS
4th AUDC 2008
Hosts: IIU, Malaysia 2008, Winner: NTU, Runner-Up: ADMNU
5th AUDC 2009
Hosts: EWU, Bangladesh, Winner: ? , Runner-Up : ?
Knowing AUDC
The Asian Universities Debating Championship-AUDC is the premier debating championship in Asia. Being the largest debating competition in the region, it has attracted more than 200 teams from across Asia since its inception. Beginning in 2005, the Asian debating community decided to create a flagship tournament that ensures transparency in all areas, is highly competitive and provides top grade adjudication and tabbing processes. With these principles in mind, the founding institutions convenened in Singapore and decided to form the AUDC to decide the "CHAMPIONS OF ASIA". AUDC is where all the best teams in Asia meet. AUDC uses the best tabbing system around.
Interesting trivia about AUDC
A few teams that did well in previous AUDC's, later went on to break at Worlds & Australs. So it comes to show that teams can learn a lot from each other and from adjudicators at AUDC. The adjudicators attending this year's AUDC has also adjudicated the breaking rounds of Worlds and Australs (a few even went all the way and judged the recent Australs grand finals), ensuring the quality of adjudication in this tournament remains solid as ever. AUDC is the ONLY flagship debating tournament that not only ranks the debate teams, but also enforces the teams to rank their adjudicators. Because of the above mandatory rule, power-matching not only occurs to the teams, but also to the judges as well. This means teams that did well in previous rounds would get better judges in preceding rounds. In the later preliminary rounds, the better-ranked judges would then judge the bubble rooms where they are needed the most.
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