12th Java Overseas Varsity English Debate Competition

JOVED – “Java Overseas Varsity English Debate Competition” – 2nd most prestigious English Debate in Indonesia. This year 2008, JOVED was held by Parahyangan University participated by 48 teams from many different city in Indonesia such as Malang, Solo, Bandung, Jakarta, Semarang. Surabaya and Yogjakarta. The Debate itself used “Asian Parliamentary” which is a standard for asian debating competition. A team consist of 4 person, 3 person as debaters and 1 person as a adjudicator. Debater jobs of course to debate and adjudicator jobs to proctor, evaluate each debate session conducted by debaters. 

Well, actually this was our 1st time our team from ITHB joined a debate competition and this was also the first time for our team members to debate. Debate itself was a very challenging activity since it pushed you to think as fast as possible, but not only fast, you also had to deliver what you said in comprehensive (Matter), courteously (Manner) and structured (Method). The 3 concept of Manner, Matter, Method are the measurement on how good your team or a debater in debating an issue/motion according to the adjudicators.

Since we don’t have sufficient time which is only 2 weeks to practice and learn more to increase our debate technique. We finally failed to break into final round because our point was not high enough to compete with the other 48 teams. We won 3 times and lost 3 times an ranked us on 31st , pretty good start for a novice team hehe….  We proud of it because we have achieved something that wasn’t so bad, the more important thing is we proved ourself we could learn fast, and hard work to achieve something . You know, for being the first always uneasy but if there is no 1st time then there’s would be no 2nd or 3rd time.

Thank you, all debaters from UNPAR B, ITB A, UNISBA and IM Telkom for helping us improving our debate skill during spare with you guys. All adjudicator, Ms. Miranda from UI who is one of the best adjudicator in this event based on our team opinion of course 😛

See you guys on the next year in 13rd JOVED competition…