Tuesday, July 12, 2011

UI Debaters Reach Australs 2011 ESL Final

#7ESL Universitas Indonesia 1 (Dimas Hokka, Riza Aryani, Subarkah Syafruddin) made it into the final ESL debate of the 2011 Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships and will meet #4ESL University of Hong Kong 1 in a fight for the title. In the semifinals, UI eliminated #6ESL International Christian University from Japan while Hong Kong knocked out the last standing team from host South Korea, #8ESL Ewha University's EDiS.

UI's journey in Australs 2011 started with sleeping like hobos at Seoul's airport and losing to fellow countrymen Binus International in the first debate but Hokka, Riza and Sume bounced back and showed their mettle. Their road to the ESL final was as follows:

Preliminaries (4-4, #7ESL/#61)
R1 v. Binus International 1 (L)
R2 v. Underwood International College 1 (W)
R3 v. Auckland University 2 (L) -- opponent reached main octofinals
R4 v. Macquarie University 4 (W)
R5 v. Chung Ang University 1 (W)
R6 v. Victoria University of Wellington 3 (L)
R7 v. Monash University 3 (L) -- opponent reached main pre-octofinals
R8 v. Peking University 1 (W)
QF v. #2ESL Universiti Malaya 1 (W)
SF v. #6ESL International Christian University 1 (W)

In 2009, UI also met a team from Hong Kong --The Chinese University of Hong Kong-- in the ESL final of the Australs. Tirza Reinata, Intan Hadijah and Frieda Siregar outdebated them and brought home the trophy. Indonesia hopes history will repeat itself tomorrow at the Australs 2011 ESL Final.

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