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IIUM World Debate and Oratory Centre (IWON) would like to congratulate our English Debaters for their achievements at the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championship 2018 (Australs) held from 27th June – 4 July 2018 at University of Malaya. This international debate competition is one of the most prestigious annual regional debating competition, and Australs 2018 saw the participation of 88 teams from Australia, New Zealand and Asian countries.

IIUM has sent 5 teams to the tournament and achieved an amazing feat by having full contingent break into the knockout rounds with team members that are predominantly junior debaters. The tournament consists of three categories – Open, ESL (English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language). IIUM teams’ achievements are as follow:

1. Team 1  reached the Octo Finals of the Open Category

2. Team 3 reached the Partial Double Octo-Finals of the Open Category

3. Team 2 reached the Semi Final of the ESL Category

4. Team 4 & 5 made it to the Quarter Finals of the ESL Category

The debaters’ individual achievements are as follow:

1. Aini Cellini Bt Basrihuddin (AIKOL) – 9th Overall Best Speaker for the Open Category and the Overall Best Speaker for ESL

2. Shahrulbanun Bt Mohd Ariff Sabri (AIKOL) – 2nd Overall Best Speaker for ESL

3. Mohd Hilmy Mohd Yazid (AIKOL) – 5th Overall Best Speaker for ESL

4. Shitab Daiyan Akash (ECONS) – 7th Overall Best Speaker  for ESL

5. Manasir Jisam (KOE) – 2nd Overall Best Speaker for EFL