ESP OPEN DEBATING COMPETITION IV


It was a good day on Friday, August 11th 2017 to start a wonderful one of annual great event of ESP, EODC IV. EODC (ESP Open Debating Competition) IV  is an open debating competition that is held by LKM ESP FTP UB every year, and this year is on its fourth year. This year of EODC was coming up with theme  ”Significant Involvement of Indonesia in International Scope as a Purpose of Self Actualization” and fancy tagline ”Involve Yourself, Improve Yourself, Brighten The Future”. The competition adopted Asian Parliamentary Debate System like the previous years. This year Adjudicator’s core already achieved so many glorious achievements in national scope or even international. They are Dhanny Lazuardi from Gadjah Mada University as the Chief Adjudicator, I Made Arisanto from Institute Technology Bandung as Deputy Chief Adjudicator 1 and Nila Ellyana from Brawijaya University as Deputy Chief Adjudicator 2. EODC, as its name open debating competition, was opened generally for all highschoolers, college students, workers, etc and participated by 16 teams for debating competition and 6 N1 Adjudicators.
EODC was held at the 2nd floor of FTP’s F building for three days.  The agenda of the first day is the technical meeting for all of the participants. Most of the participants came to know how the competition would be in the next day. The committee was all ready  few hours before the technical meeting started and the adjudicator then directly conduct the technical meeting. But before the main event of technical meeting, I Made Arisanto, one of the adjudicator’s core, volunteered to give a special performance of him singing in front of the participant. His voice was so good! He was singing ’someone like you’ that originally sung by Adele. Then he continued to conduct the technical meeting with Dhanny Lazuardi.
Opening by mc

Acoustic performance

Participants attending the technical meeting


On the second day, the real battle was started fiercely between 16 teams and 6 N1 Adjudicators. The participant had to do four times battle in the first preliminary to go to the Octofinal. The first battle of the first preliminary started in the very morning since there would be three more battle and it would be really exhausting. But, the a-core made interesting motion so the participant looked so excited to break them all. After all of those exhausting battles, the acore finally announced 8 teams that can continue to the octofinal and one best N1 Adjudicator of the day. Those great 8 teams were Destiny’s Child with four victory points which means they won all the battles. And then ln t, UPIL, Okky Jelly Drink, and Tim Kita Optimis 2.0 which won three times. And the last were Remah Khong Guan, Smanisda B and Interracial who won twice. And also for the best N1 goes to Imam Fahreza. But unfortunately, Interracial didnt want to continue their journey and resigned. So,  team smanisda A who were ranked at 9 directly go up and continue on the octofinal round on the last day. On the last day, the teams that got into the octofinal round battled for a round and then selected to 4 teams only to do the semi final. The semifinalist were Destiny’s Child, UPIL, ln t, and Okky Jelly drink. Those who made it to the semifinal round was known as ’team dewa’ and expected to be the semifinalist line up by all of the participants and the adjudicators. After the battle of semifinal round, the adjudicators announced the finalist line up with the system of the two highest point would made it to the final round. And they are Destiny’s Child and UPIL, as expected. With five adjudicators, the final round was held in the FTP’s hall and watched by all of the participant since the first preliminary day. No wonder why they watched this battle because they also curious how was the battle of two dewa and wanted to know who would be the winner. As soon as the battel ended, the adjudicators had a small meeting and decided that Destiny’s Child as the winner of EODC IV 2017. UPIL as the 1st runner up, and ln t as the 2nd runner up. They also announce that Roderick from Destiny’s Child got the Best Speaker in EODC.
We are super ready!

Hurry! The clock start ticking!

Case building

We need strong arguments!

The battle is starting NOW!


Capturing moments at the photobooth

FINAL ROUND!!

POI...........

CONGRATULATION WINNER!!


It was already expected that Destiny’s Child team would be the winner because they already experienced in debate for years and their skill is no doubt. The winner, 1st runer up, and also 2nd runner up would get cash, trophy, and also sertificate to appreciate them winning. Thank you for all the participant that had joined this wonderful EODC IV. See you on the EODC V next year! J

-Writter: AKV
-Edited by MSP
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