Pertandingan Akhir Debat Antarabangsa UTHM Bahasa Cina kali ke-3
Tarikh : 29 September 2013 (Ahad)
Masa : 8.00 pagi ~ 5.00 ptg
Tempat : Dewan Tunku Ismail Ibrahim
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http://expressbulletin.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/report-of-uthm-international-chinese-debate-competition-2013/
International Chinese Debate Competition 2013
BY LIN JUN HONG
BY LIN JUN HONG
The 3rd University Tun Hussein Onn
International Chinese Debate Competition which was organized by the
Chinese Debate Club of UTHM was held on September 2013. A total of 25
universities and colleges were taking part in this grand international
debate competition which historically involved of participant from a few
universities from Australia and Singapore for the first time ever. The
25 participants included, University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) as
the host, University Malaya (UM), University Sains Malaysia (USM),
University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), University Putra Malaysia (UPM),
University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), University Utara Malaysia (UUM),
University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), University Teknikal Melaka (UTeM),
University Malaysia Pahang (UMP), University College Sedaya
International (UCSI), New Era College, University Tenaga Nasional
(UNITEN), University Teknologi Petronas (UTP), International Medical
University (IMU), University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), INTI
International University, HELP University, One World Hanxing College of
Journalism and Communication (Hanxing College), Southern University
College, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, National
University of Singapore (NUS), The University of Melbourne, Australia,
The University of Sydney, Australia, and Australian National University
(ANU).
The competition was carried out since
21 September which began with the qualification match and came to the
final match on 29 September. After some ‘sweet and sour’ controversy
between all the participants, UM and New Era College emerged at the
final stage to fight for the champion throne with their outstanding
debate skills. It cannot be denied that the UM chinese debate team,
which was the former world chinese debate competition champion is one of
the main attraction of the audience. During the final round
competition, there were around 400 audiences which attended the final
competition on 29 September with the expectation of watching a
remarkable and exciting debates between the two brilliant debate experts
teams. 7 experienced senior judges on that day who came from different
sector of profession of society had formed a brilliant and strong
line-up of judgment team to ensure that the result of the final
competiton was fair and professional. Among all of the famous judges
were Liang Zhi Zhong, An Huan Lan, Teng Tian Lee, Wu Zhen Dao, Foo Kai
Jie, Zhang Meng Chong and Koh Wee Sun.
The final debate competition began at
2pm sharply with the arrival of the honorable judges along with the
singing of the National Anthem. The ceremony opened with some slight
briefing from the president of Chinese Debate Club UTHM. After some
welcoming speeches, certain rules and regulations for the participants
and the audiences had been announced to ensure that the competition can
be carried out successfully and smoothly without any distraction. The
most important minutiae of the competition arrived with the announcement
of the title for each debate team by the monitor of the debate
competition. UM debate team was the proposition team while the New Era
college debate team was the opposition team. Their debate titles were
“pluralism is more beneficial than polarization towards the development
of international situation” and “polarization is more beneficial than
pluralism towards the development of international situation”
respectively. The chinese debate contest started right after a brief
introduction of the debaters for each debate teams.
The final debate competition was
occupied 34 minutes overall, which was according to the international
standard rules. For the first section of the match, the first debater
from each proposition and opposition team were given 2 minutes to
deliver their speeches and opinion accordingly with the given title.
Both of the debaters were performing well as they were able to deliver a
lot of constructive and important point view of their stands. Next is
the second section where the second and third debaters were given 2
minutes each to deliver their speeches and to attack on their opponent’s
stand with some forceful and convincing arguments. The match was became
more and more interesting at this section of the match as the debaters
opposed each other’s stand brilliantly. After that, the first debater
from each team were to show their skill on debate techniques in the
following section where they were given 2 minutes each to make a clear
conclusion about their attacking speeches.
Responds of audiences were becoming
more and more enthusiastically during the free debate section as each
debate teams were given 5 minutes to debate freely regardless of their
position and sequences. In this section, both teams were showing their
professional brainstorming skills as they should be able to react
quickly and oppose their opponent’s stand accurately. And of all the
parts of the match, this free debate part was the most interesting and
exciting part as the skillful debaters from each team will tried to
knocked out the other team with some strong points and this give much
impression to the judges to judged their debate skills. For the last
part of the debate competition, 4th debater from each team were given 3
minutes each to make a final address as to conclude their overall
opinions. The debate competition ended after a 34 minutes excited and
brilliant performance from both debate experts. After a conclusion
speech from monitor of competition, judges were given some times to make
their final decision of their votes.
The result was divided into three
parts, the first one was the impression votes and the second one was the
mark votes and the last one was the final votes. In the impression
votes, UM debate team scores a higher vote than the other debate team
with votes of 4 out of 7 votes. During this impression votes section,
the judges had made some briefing and opinion on each debate team. UM
debate team gave good impression to the judges due to their strong point
and debate skill that almost knocked out their opponent. On behalf to
that, they also got a higher mark votes due to their professional debate
skills. UM debate team had received 5 out of 7 votes in the mark votes.
Lastly, the final votes which was based on their overall performance.
It cannot be denied that the UM debate team would surely got more votes
than the New Era debate team, and UM debate team got 4 out of 7 votes.
The total votes obtained by UM debate team was 13 votes which emerged as
champion. They had received a cheque worth RM2000 with a championship
trophy. Not to be forgotten, every debate competition must have a best
debater of the day and best debater overall. The 3rd debater
of the New Era debate team which was a girl had archived the title of
the best debater of the day along with the title of the best debater
overall due to her outstanding debate skills. She had received a cheque
worth RM400 and a trophy.
