24th ICU Tournament
Chief Adjudicator
24th ICU Tournament offers you a great debating experience with highly skilled Adjudicators.
Kohei Arakawa
HKDO 2014, Deputy Chief Adjudicator
29th JPDU Tournament, 3rd best Adjudicator
Solbridge Northeast Asian Open 2013, Deputy Chief Adjudicator
HKDO 2013, breaking adjudicator
Victoria Australs 2012, ESL Champion, 4th ESL Best Speaker
Asian BP 2012, EFL Semi Finalist, 2nd EFL Best speaker
and more...
Welcome to the 24th ICU Tournament 2015. It’s my great honour to be the Chief Adjudicator of this tournament. This tournament has the longest history across the Northeast Asia, and the only international tournament in Japan.
And this year, this tournament takes further challenges.
From the first step, We openly call for adjudication core and welcome 4 great members of adjudication core. Andy from Scotland, Jesus from the Philippines, Prarthana from Singapore, and Rafiq from Malaysia. All of them are giants of debate and adjudication, and also passionate to dedicate for this tournament. I never feel much pleasure than working with them.
And the next step, we invited honourable adjudicators across the Asia. They achieved prestigious results in numerous numbers of tournament. I guarantee debates or adjudicators can acquire further opportunity to learn from them.
Then finally, it’s your turn to take challenges on this tournament. More than 60 teams gather then debate and adjudicate in 3 days. Let’s make your own goals and fight for it.
I hope every debaters, adjudicators enjoy the debate, and find something blight to you.
Deputy Chief Adjudicators
Prarthana Manohar
UADC 2013, Broke 6th, Quarterfinalist
UADC 2012, Broke 10th, Quarterfinalist
WUDC2014, Open Semifinals and EFL Finals
Kuala Lumpur Open Challenge, 2013, Finals
National Novice Debating Championship, 2014, Adj Core, Finals
BFSU Debate Open, 2014, Adj Core, Finals
1st HK Pre-Australs, 2014, Invited Adjudicator
Canton IV, 2014, Subsidized Adjudicator, Finals
Hello ICUT participants!
At many points during this tournament, you are going to feel frustrated, want to harm your teammate, adjudicator or both and you are going to question why you even decided to be here. Just remember at those times that a tournament is so much more than just the debates. It's about the things you learn, the friends you make and the ones you reconnect with, the jokes you'll be telling years from now and, if you're like me, trying the new food that comes with the territory! So enjoy yourselves to the fullest and please don't injure your poor teammates!
Rafiq Saladdin
Champion at Asian BP 2014Semifinalist and broke 1st, UADC 2014 and 6th Best SpeakerOctofinalist and 13th breaking team at Manila UADC 2013Octofinalist and 13th breaking team at Korea Australs 2011Quarter-finalist and 9th breaking team at Macau UADC 2011Indonesian Debate Open 2013, Grand Finalist, 3rd Best Speaker Malaysian Debate Open 2013, Grand FinalistMalaysian Debate Open 2011, Grand Finalist, 6th Best SpeakerMalaysian Debate Open 2014, Quarterfinalist, 4th Best Speaker
Jesus Falcis
Professor (Far Eastern University)
Champion and 8th Best Speaker, Manila UADC 2013
Champion and Best Speaker, ASEAN Eco Debates 2014
Semifinalist and 15th Speaker on tab, Macau UADC 2011
Champion and 2nd Best Speaker, Intramuros IVs 2010
Adj Core-elect, Bali UADC 2015
Adj Core, Malaysian Debate Open (MDO) 2015
2x Top Ten and 2x Grandfinals Judge, UADC (2012 and 2014)
Breaking Judge and EFL Grandfinals Chair, UADC 2010
Subsidized and Quarterfinals Judge, HKDO 2013
Jesus was born and raised with the concept of "Filipino time", which according to urban dictionary means things get done whenever they're done. If you set a dinner meeting at 6:00pm, the meeting starts the time when everyone arrives - which can be as early as 7:00pm or as late as 9:00pm. Jesus usually is the first one to arrive at meetings, bringing his iPad and playing games to while away the time.
Mixing "Filipino time" and debate tournaments together, even with the most efficient tabbing and pool of runners, you will get a delayed tournament.
Organizers set call times 1-2 hours before the actual time they want the debaters to be there just so the tournament will run on time. Other schemes include having working lunch during prep times!
Having heard of the legendary phenomenon of tournaments running on time (or earlier!) in Japan, Jesus wasted no time applying to become DCA of ICUT to see this thing called "Japanese time" applied to a debate tournament.
Jesus has been to Japan in December, 2014 and was baffled how trains could arrive 1 minute before the designated time its arrival was announced to be. Jesus expects to be more baffled and have lots of spare time in ICUT... so that he'll have more time to go to Akihabara. *wink*
Andy Hume
Winner, World University Debating Championships (WUDC), 1997 (Stellenbosch, South Africa) 3-time Scottish national finalist, John Smith Mace (UK and Ireland national championships)Winner / finalist at many UK and Ireland IV competitionsChief Adjudicator, WUDC 2001 (Glasgow, Scotland); UCTI Debate Open 2010 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Twenty years from now - take it from an old man like me - you won't remember the topics you debated; you won't remember what side you were on; you won't even, believe it or not, remember if you won or lost.
What you'll remember is the people, the places, the parties and the drunken kisses (and if there aren't many of them, you'll just make those bits up, like I do.) So enjoy your time in debate to the max, win or lose, and make as many memories as you can!
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