UN Malang Win ITS Open, USU Law Victorious in Speedy 2011

A team from Universitas Negeri Malang (Ayrton Eduardo, Ziadatul Hikmiah, Erich Zanuardhi) beat same-city rival Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang (Gandhabaskara Saputra, Hanif Falah, Anastasya Wattimena) in the final round of the ITS Open English Debating Competition in Surabaya on Sunday. The event attracted more than 40 teams throughout East Java province that could include graduates of their respective institutions in the squad.

On the same day, Universitas Sumatera Utara's Law School (Yuthi Sinari, Paulina Tandiono, Michael Timothy) came out as the winner of the Speedy 2011 debate competition in Medan after defeating STMIK Mikroskil. Elsyam from Mikroskil took the best speaker award in the tournament that had 19 teams from Sumatra's largest city of Medan and its surroundings.

ITS Open, Medan's Speedy Start Today as Veterans Rule IFF

Two 3-on-3 debate competitions, the ITS Open in Surabaya and Universitas Sumatra Utara's Speedy in Medan, kicked off today with 44 and 19 teams respectively. Another tournament STAN's Indonesian Finance Festival may have less participants with only 14 teams but it has been underway since March 10 and will have 2 preliminaries and a pre-semifinal round today. So far, IDF, a composite team comprising veterans Ahmad Naufal Dai (UI/FT'09 Champion), Satrio Adi Pratama (Undip/NUEDC'10 Champion) and Eldhianto Maulana Jusuf (UGM/IVED'11 Champion), are hot favourites in the IFF after beating rivals with clear margins in the first three preliminary rounds on March 11. All three tournaments will hold their finals on March 13.

IFF Still Open for Registration, 44 Teams Join ITS Debate

The Indonesian Finance Festival is still taking debate participants as the 30-team cap has not been reached yet although the event, which will be held March 11-13 at STAN's Bintaro campus, offers enticing prizes, including a combined Rp. 5 million in cash for the champion and runner-up. The motions in the 3-on-3 IFF will all be related to economics. The organizer's email is indonesianfinancefest@gmail.com.


Beside the IFF, two other debate tournaments will also take place in Indonesia next weekend. Surabaya's ITS Open, which will use the Australasian format, will have 44 teams from all over East Java province, including from AAL, Indonesia's naval academy. This is an expansion from its original 40-team cap. The other one is Speedy 2011 at Universitas Sumatera Utara in Medan.

USU to Hold English Debate on the Same Day with IFF, ITS Open

Universitas Sumatera Utara will hold SPEEDY 2011 which includes an intervarsity debate competition on March 12-13 at their campus in Medan. With this competition, there will be three simultaneous debate tournaments in three separate Indonesian provinces on those dates. The two others will be the Indonesian Finance Festival at STAN Tangerang, Banten and the ITS Open in Surabaya, East Java.