AUDC 2008-Curtain Fall Asia’s Premier Debating Champ-NTU at Top

Caption: The Champion Team - NTU receiving the Champion Trophy

Mahbub Manik
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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