#1 Bali and #6 Aceh will battle it out for the crown of the 2011 National Schools Debating Championships tonight after beating #4 North Sumatra and #2 Jakarta respectively in the semifinals. This is the first time two non-Java teams meet in the final of a national high school debating competition. Aceh also reached last year's NSDC grandfinal while the Bali team is supported by members of the SMA 4 Denpasar squad that won the recent ALSA UI E-Comp, the country's premier school-based competition. NSDC is province-based.
While non-Java teams have never won any national varsity debating tournament, it is a different story in the high school category where the competition is more geographically balanced. NSDC is the latest progression from the High School Debating Camp in 2000, the inaugural national scale high school debating event in Indonesia, and the trophy then went to a non-Java team from Bengkulu that defeated a Jakarta squad. Although since 2001 Java teams championed almost all of the derivative forms of HSDC, Bali won the 2006 edition and non-Java squads have regularly reached the semis and grandfinals.
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