UiTM And IIUM Emerge Champions In One Of The World's Most Competitive Debating Tournaments
Making history in Cambridge IV.
By Sadho Ram — 22 Nov 2015, 05:03 PM
Two teams from University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) have emerged champions by winning both the main category and English as Second Language (ESL) category trophies, The Star Online reported
While IIUM won in the ESL category, the team from UiTM bagged the main prize for the overall competition, with it becoming the first Malaysian university in history to win in the main category
UiTM became the first Malaysian university in history to win in the main category when they came out victorious in the four-way grand finals against the team from Trinity College of Dublin Historical Society and two teams from the University of Toronto, Hart House A & B.
Mohd Mifzal Mohd Murshid Kieron, and Jasmine Ho, both 22, successfully defended the motion ‘This House believes that the international community should pay countries near to conflict zones to process, settle and restrict the further movement of refugees’ in their position as opening government.
In the ESL category grand finals, IIUM speakers Ameera Natasha Moore, 22, and Sara Rahim, 20, defeated Tel Aviv from Israel and Leiden A and Leiden B, both from the Netherlands.
They were debating the motion ‘This house believes that Saudi Arabia should limit participation in the Hajj to the citizens of countries that are committed to taking direct action against the Islamic State (IS)’ as opening opposition.
Taking the opportunity, Minister of Youth & Sports Khairy Jamaluddin congratulated both the team on his Twitter account:
It's no mean feat considering the fact that the teams are given only a 15-minutes of preparation time with no outside help and no electronic assistance apart from electronic dictionaries
