Universitas Diponegoro came to the 15th Java Overland Varsities English Debate without a history of winning this tournament before but left unbeaten with the best team and top speaker trophies.
#1 Undip A (Satrio Adi Pratama, Rizky Akita, Edward Sutanto) defeated #6 Institut Teknologi Bandung C (Dito Krista, Rifan Ibnu Rahman, Safira Lazuardi) in the grand final that ended with a 7-2 split decision. They previously topped the tab as the only team without a loss in the preliminaries.
Satrio took the best speaker award, his third this year. He has never left a 2011 competition without such a prize so far. However, tonight's win was his first championship victory debating for the Semarang-based university in 2011. He won the Indonesian Finance Festival Debates last March with teammates from other schools. Last year, Satrio gave Undip its first major trophy at the 2010 National Universities English Debating Championships.
For ITB's Rifan, it was his fourth loss in a final this year. He has performed superbly since the first month of 2011 when he became top debater in the Indonesian Varsities English Debate but he has not clinched a championship yet. The 2011 JOVED finalists knocked out teams from Universitas Indonesia in the semi-finals, denying an all-UI final, which became a likelihood after 3 squads from this school reached the top 8.
The 15th edition of JOVED, the first tournament in Indonesia using an internationally accepted debating format, was held at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta. Purwokerto will host next year.
bravo undip! congrats :D
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