JOVED (JAVA OVERLAND VARSITY ENGLISH DEBATE) 2019

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Venue

This year’s JOVED will be held in Universitas Ciputra. As one of the most prestigious university in Surabaya, UC has recently entered parliamentary debating after years of stellar achievements in Debat Psikologi — and with admirable achievements too, nonetheless.

Universitas Ciputra resides in West Surabaya, a newly-developed area with ranges of nearby shopping malls (Pakuwon Mall, Lenmarc) and food districts (G-Walk, Loop Graha Family, Pasar Modern) with various delicacies ranging from Chinese food to local Surabayan food, from halal to not-so-halal foods. So, while you’re debating at day, limitless entertainment awaits you at night!

Accomodations

All participants will be provided 4-nights accomodations in Bella Hotel, a 3-star hotel located in West Surabaya. Although not walking distance, it is still relatively accesible using Go-Car/Grabcar (30-40 mins of driving). (The schedule will be adjusted accordingly)

Tentative Schedule

Adjudication Core

ESL Quarterfinalist – WUDC 2019
Champion – IVED 2019, ALSA UI 2017
Runner-Up – IVED 2018, JOVED 2018

(DCA to be announced)

Registration & Eligibilities Policy

Registrations & Eligibilities Policy

Like the other previous JOVEDs, this year’s JOVED will also employ following regulations regarding registrations:

Team Cap: 60 teams maximum.
Institutional Team Cap: Each institutions are only allowed to send a maximum of 3 teams, with the 3rd team be put on the waiting list and be announced after Late Bird Registration Phase.
N-2 Policy: Institutions that send 3 teams are obliged to send (minimum) one institutional adjudicator. However, all institutions are allowed to send any number of institutional adjudicator(s), although this is not mandatory.
Debater’s Quota: As per Indonesian Debate Council (IDC) Constitution Article 13 verse 5, those who have participated as debater in JOVED for more than 3 times are no longer eligible to represent their university as debater.

Registration Fee is as follows:

Debater
Early Bird: Rp750.000,- / person
Late Bird: Rp800.000,- / person

Institutional Adj. (for N-2 fulfillments, or independents)
Rp650.000,- / person

Registration Link:
For team(s): here.
For institutional judge(s): here.

Registration Timeline

Here is some important dates on JOVED’s registrations!

11 February – 17 March: Early Bird (Phase 1) Open Registration

In this phase you will need to register your institutions, the number of team(s) you are sending, and several contact information (representative’s email, phone number, Whatsapp) needed for us to contact your society. Individual’s data are not required yet at this phase.

18 March: Mainlist & Waiting List Announcements

We will announce the team(s) that are successfully registered on the Early Bird phase, while distributing the e-invoice to your representative email. We’ll also notify you if your team are put on the waiting list.

25 March – 28 April: Early Bird Payments Phase, Late Bird Registration Phase.

In this phase, all teams that have been accepted in the main list need to complete their payments as stated in the invoice sent before the phase ends. All teams that fail to do so by the end of this phase will not be dropped from the main list yet, however, they will be charged with Late Bird fee instead of Early Bird fee.

For those who haven’t registered in the Early Bird phase, we’ll open another round of registrations with the same mechanism as the 1st Phase.

29 April – 26 May: Updated Mainlist. Late Bird Payments.

In this phase, we will update the mainlist with those who have registered during Late Bird Registration Phase, while distributing the e-invoice for those who registered on said phase. Those who registered in the Late Bird Registration Phase are expected to complete their payments during this phase.

For those who have registered in the Early Bird Registration Phase but failed to complete their payments during the Early Bird Payments Phase are also expected to complete their payments in this phase, charged with Late Bird fee instead of Early Bird fee (new e-statement and e-invoice will be sent for legality purpose).

We’re also going to announce the status of teams that are put on the waiting list — whether they are promoted to mainlist or rejected. If your team is promoted from waiting list after registering in Early Bird Registration Phase, you’ll be charged with Early Bird fee (not Late Bird fee).

27 May – 8 June: Final Mainlist, Scholarship Awardee Announcement, Individual Registration

We’ll announce the mainlist for the tournament in social medias and in your representative email.finalised

In this phase you are obliged to register all delegates’ (adjudicators, debaters) personal information for accomodations and tabulations purpose. We’re going to remind all teams to do this before the deadline. We will be strict with this policy, and there will be consequences for failures to do personal registration.

14 June – 18 June: JOVED D-Day!

Donations & Affirmative Actions

A. Scholarships

We are accepting applications for scholarships based on the Indonesian Debate Council Constitution Chapter 9 Article 31. If you have not participated in JOVED for the last 2 years (i.e. JOVED IPB 2017, JOVED UGM 2018), you are eligible to apply for the scholarship.

Scholarship awardees (or scholars) will be able to compete in JOVED Surabaya 2019 for free, while reserving the full rights and facilities alongside any other participants, including accomodations.

Scholarship applicants are required to submit a proposal which consists of:

The purpose of participating JOVED 2019.
Explanations of their financial constraints
Contribution plan to the debating community after joining JOVED 2019.

The proposal template can be downloaded here, and proposal submission can be made via email to joved2019@gmail.com. Scholarship applications should be made no later than 12 May 2019.

B. Registration Fee Deductions

If your institution have not participated as debaters in the past 2 years’ classics, i.e. this following tournaments:

IVED Sanatadharma 2017
JOVED IPB 2017
IVED Mercubuana 2018
JOVED UGM 2018
IVED Soegijapranata 2019

You are eligible to participate in JOVED Surabaya 2019 with deductions on registration fee as follows:

Early Bird: Rp750.000,- Rp625.000,- / person
Late Bird: Rp800.000,- Rp675.000,- / person

All institutions including those who will receive the deductions should follow the registration timeline as detailed above. There’s no deduction for institutional adjudicators.

C. Donations

Alongside the scholarship program, we urge everyone in the debating community to contribute on the proliferation by making donations to help more institutions to come to JOVED 2019.

Any amount — be it big or small — will definitely contributes.

Donations can be made via bank transfer to our official account below.

Please confirm to our official contact person(s) after making the transaction and notify us whether your name wants to be publicized or be kept anonymous, or if you want to use certain pseudonym.

Official Contact Person & Bank Accounts

All payments and donations can be made to our official bank account.

Account Holder Name: Andree Sulistio Chandra

Bank Account: BCA
Account Number: 527 144 96 83
Bank Code: 014

Bank Account: BTPN
Account Number: 90012252511
Bank Code: 213
* additionally, Jenius cashtag $joved2019

Any inquiries, questions, or payment/donation confirmations can be made to our official email at joved2019@gmail.com or to our personal contact person:

Andree Sulistio Chandra
andree@aurgumentum.com
+62 877 2706 1997
line: andrees.chandra

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Thank you, see you in Surabaya!