The Malaysia's Longest Debate

If you're a stranger to the British Parlimentary style of debating or need to refresh your memories, follow this link.

The Guide

Calling debaters all around!! What are you waiting for? Here is the entry form for you to secure your place in this record-breaking event. Please submit your entry details to us so we could key you into our schedule. Send in as many entries for as much hours as you want to contribute to us. We warmly welcome debate addicts with steaming hot coffee!

50 HOURS NON-STOP DEBATE FEAT ENTRY FORM

What is the name of your team? What is your 1st Speaker's name? What is your 2nd Speaker's name? On which day would you want your debate round to be?3/8/064/8/065/8/06-select- Would you like this debate to be during the waking hours? (PM)12noon-1pm1pm-2pm2pm-3pm3pm-4pm4pm-5pm5pm-6pm6pm-7pm7pm-8pm8pm-9pm9pm-10pm10pm-11pm11pm-12mdNo Or would you like to stay up for this round? (AM)12md-1am1am-2am2am-3am3am-4am4am-5am5am-6am6am-7am7am-8am8am-9am9am-10am10am-11am11am-12noonNo Which team position would you want to be in?-select-Opening GOVOpening OPPClosing GOVClosing OPP Whom should we refer to for confirmation? What is the contact number? What is the e-mail address?

Thursday, August 3

8.30 am	Arrival of participants & Final registration
9.30 am	Launching Ceremony of the 50 hours Malaysia’s Longest Debate
10.00 am	Debate Starts

Saturday, August 5

11.00 am	The final 1 hour of the 50 hours Malaysia’s Longest Debate
12.00 pm	Announcing the end of 50 hours Malaysia’s Longest Debate
12.10 pm	Confirmation by the Malaysia Book of Records
12.20 pm	Speech by UiTM's Vice Chancellor
12.35 pm	Speech by the Guest of Honour
12.50 pm	Closing Ceremony
1.00 pm	50 hours Malaysia’s Longest Debate officially closed

To those who are familiar with the British Parlimentary style debate would know that there will be 8 debaters in one round, i.e. two participants for each four teams. The first two teams will be representing the upper house as the Opening Government and the Opening Opposition, whereas the remaining teams will be known as the Closing Government and the Closing Opposition under the lower house.

The 8 debaters will indulge upon the war of wits for about an hour before handing the battlefield over to the next set of fresh debaters, who will definitely be hungry for some tongue lashing fun.

No limit to the number of times you want to debate, no adjudicators to tell you to take a hike. Just pure unadulterated, uninterrupted debate mania for debaters all around.

Plus, all participants will be provided with proper meals such as breakfast, lunch, tea break, dinner and supper. Bet this reminds you of that small dream of paradise where you can eat, sleep and debate all you want. Then again why sleep when you can refresh yourself with an endless supply of steaming coffee. Don't worry, we will also be having proper mobile facilities in case you need to take nature's call.

This event will boost participation from 150 - 200 university students from all over the country. This potentially includes varsities such as:


1. Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (IIUM)
   
2. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
   
3. Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL)
   
4. Universiti Malaya (UM)
   
5. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)
   
6. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
   
7. Universiti Multimedia Malaysia (MMU) Cyberjaya
   
8. Universiti Multimedia Malaysia (MMU) Melaka
   
9. Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)
   
10. Universiti Perubatan Malaysia (IMU)
    
11. Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
    
12. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
    
13. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
    
14. Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)
    
15. Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)
    
16. Universiti Tenaga Malaysia (UNITEN)
    
17. Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNITAR)
    
18. Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
    
19. Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
    
20. Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
    
21. University of Nottingham in Malaysia (UNiM)
    
22. Kolej Universiti Antarabangsa Sedaya (UCSI)
    
23. Kolej Universiti HELP (HUC)
    
24. Kolej Universiti Infrastruktur Kuala Lumpur (KLIUC)
    
25. Kolej Universiti Islam Malaysia (KUIM)
    
26. Kolej Universiti Kejuruteraan dan Teknologi Malaysia (KUKTEM)
    
27. Kolej Universiti Kejuruteraan Utara Malaysia (KUKUM)
    
28. Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia (KUSTEM)
    
29. Kolej Universiti Teknikal Kebangsaan Malaysia (KUTKM)
    
30. Kolej Universiti Teknologi & Pengurusan Malaysia (KUTPM)
    
31. Kolej Universiti Teknologi Antarabangsa Twintech (IUCTT)
    
32. Kolej Universiti Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn (KUiTTHO)
    
33. Monash University Malaysia (MUSM)
    

To promote the Faculty of Education EDU Carnival 2006 and celebrate Universiti Teknologi Mara’s 50th Anniversary.

To create awareness among the public about intellectual discourse, particularly Malaysian youths.

To promote critical thinking and encourage public speaking.

To encourage public to be more expressive in their thought and opinions.

To serve as a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas on all current issues between debaters all over Malaysia.

# posted by ms. ana @ 9:51 PM 0 comments

The Faculty of Education UiTM 50 hours non-stop longest debate is one of the main activities to promote the Faculty of Education EDU Carnival 2006 (Monday, 31 July 2006 to Saturday, 5 August 2006) which is in conjunction with Universiti Teknologi Mara’s 50th Anniversary.

In 2003, Multimedia University Malaysia’s prestigious debating society, Voices, made a national standing record of 24 hours non-stop debating. They then broke their own record in 2004 with a record-breaking of 36 hours non-stop debating. However, England still holds the world’s longest debate record of 503 hours and 45 minutes, which is about 21 days.

It is our hope that the public could come and join the faculty of Education in this record breaking feat. For more information, kindly contact us at 03-55227425 (Cik Salliza) or email us at: facedu_50hoursdebate@yahoo.com.