Australs Recording

On 2008, there were only two Indonesian teams at Ateneo Australs. On 2009, there were only three Indonesian teams at Monash Australs. I was there in Manila, and it was only recently I remember that I have some audio recordings from the Australs 2008 knock off rounds. If you are interested, I have them at my other page in Google Sites.

The available recordings are from the following rounds:

- ESL Semi Final, Assumption U. vs U. Indonesia, That industrialized nations should be forced to accept climate change refugees.

- ESL Final, U. Indonesia vs. IIU Malaysia, That the price of petrol should be determined entirely by the market.

- Quarter Final, Sydney (?) vs Vic (?), That low-income ethnic neighborhoods should be protected from gentrification.

- Semi Final, Monash 1 vs AdMU 1, That we would abolish the crime of statutory rape.

- Grand Final, U. of Sydney Union 1 vs Monash 1, That gun ownership should be restricted to law enforcement agencies.

Several notes on the file: there are 8 files for each debate, one for each speech. The numbering starts from Recording 0 for PM speech, to Recording 8 for Govt Reply. The files are in .AMR format (I recorded them with my SonyEricsson phone at that time), but here's a free nifty program to convert the audio files to .WAV format. The uncommon format, however, made the overall size of the files small enough and it therefore should save you a couple minutes in downloading them.

On another note, I saw that there are Semi Final, Final and ESL Final videos from Monash Australs 2009 at http://loganimal.blip.tv/ you might want to check that out.

I hope the people involved in the debates do not mind me sharing the files.

Worlds 2010 Results

Here's a repost of what Uphie sent to indodebaters mailing list, on the Indonesian teams result of Worlds Koc 2010. I say, congratulation is in order nonetheless, particularly to Pandu and Uphie!

Hi!

Just arrived home from Koc Worlds 2010 and would like to inform all of you the brief final results of Indonesian contingent's performance the tournament.

ATMA JAYA A - Denny Firmanto Halim & Joan Wicitra

Final Rank: 343rd (24th on the EFL tab) with 9 points and 1308 scores.

BANDUNG A - Muhammad Pandu & Luthfi Abdurrahman

Final Rank: 166th (17TH on the ESL tab: a fact for which I had a good, 3AM-in-the-morning cry) with 14 points and 1373 scores.

BINA NUSANTARA A - Rajkumar Narendra & Christian Leonardo

Final Rank: 181st (20th on the ESL tab) with 14 points and 1346 scores.

BINA NUSANTARA B - Bryan Gunawan & Winardi Christian

Final Rank: 283rd (11th on the EFL tab) with 11 points and 1317 scores.

Bryan Gunawan was 441st on the open speaker tab (6th on the EFL tab) with 667 scores. Bryan is the only Indonesian debater to snatch an award as top ten speaker in Koc Worlds 2010. Congratulations Bryan!!

DIKTI A - Prima Wikaningtyas & Aprilia Surya Kusuma Dewi

Final Rank: 350th (101st on the ESL tab) with 9 points and 1270 scores.

INDONESIA A - Tirza Reinata & Dewi Wijayanti

Final Rank: 176th (19th on the ESL tab) with 14 points and 1354 scores.

INDONESIA B - Astari Damia Ghassani & Freida Chaidir Kalang Siregar

Final Rank: 177th with 14 points and 1353 scores.

INDONESIA C - Angga Kho Meidy & Jonathan Marpaung

Final Rank: 260th (46th on the ESL tab) with 12 points and 1307 scores.

IU INDONESIA A - Widya Adi Nugroho & Heru Pamungkas

Final rank: 368th (33rd on the EFL tab) with 8 points and 1247 scores.

YOGYAKARTA A - Vitri Sekar Sari & Teddy Hendra

Final rank: 323rd (84th on the ESL tab) with 9 points 10 points and 1286 scores.

General results of the tournament are as follows. University of Sydney Union (Christopher Croke & Steve Hind) won the competition, while the crown of Worlds Best Speaker this year goes to Mr. Shengwu Li from the Oxford Union. ESL champion is Tel Aviv (Yoni Cohen and Uri Merhav) with Manos Moschopoulos from Athens as ESL best speaker. EFL Champion is MGIMO (Mikhail Sazonov & Maria Savostyanova with Filip Dobranic (who is also the ESL 3rd best speaker) from Ljubljana as the EFL best speaker.

The Masters Debate (with its finals turning ill) unfolds,
former World Champion the Canadians Joanna Nairn and Michael Kotrly
team Vanuatu (Derek Lande and Jason Rogers) as champion, perhaps due to their least controversial performance in a grand final that can be described as acrid; Josh from Griffiths won the best stand-up comedy, while Riva Gold from McGill snatched the trophy for World's Best Public Speaker.

Such are the results. Definitely a bit disappointing, but there's no use in overmourning it. It's new year's anyway, so everything's actually a boost-up to fuel better Indonesian performances (and constant attendances) in upcoming Worlds. Philippines' De La Salle University won the 2012 bid so it's worth our effort to plan Indonesian institutions' grand entry to one of the cheapest worlds ever (and a very close one, too).

For full tab (and speaker scores) please check out http:// worlddebating. blogspot. com. You can find the google-spreadsheet there.

Tab junkie,

Uphie

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P.S.: Errata corrected per thread on the list.