2011년 11월 14일 월요일

Congratulations!

The following are the results of KFLDT 2011

Grand Champion
iRule
Patricia Song, Lauren Ahn

Finalists
Annapurna
Minsou Lee, Doyoung Pyun
The Legitimate
Kevin Shin, Yoon Lee
Mafias
Yeji Seo, Jjihye Han

Semi-finalists
Change
Yeji Kim, Dawon Seong
Somnium
Yeji Yang, Jieun Kim
Draconian
Seongjae Yang, Jisoo Yum
Cooladmit
Jeongwhan Lee, Minhyuk Lee

Best Speakers (In no particular order)
Yeji Seo
Yoon Lee
Seonjae Yang
Doyoung Pyun
Jisoo Yum

Congratulations!

To all,

Thanks to all the debaters who have participated in KFLDT 2011!
Without you, this tournament would not have been possible.

It was great seeing the next generation of students who will lead the Korean debating community forward.
We hope you all had a great time during the tournament and hope to see you in next year's
tournament as well.

Adios~

KFLDT 2011 Org. Comm.

2011년 11월 9일 수요일

Important Announcement

Dear Participants

When KFLDT was first organized, the schedule was formulated according to our team CAP
However considering the number of teams who have registered
the Org. Comm. has decided to start the break rounds with semi-finals instead of quarter-finals
meaning there will be 8 teams who will advance to the break rounds

Therefore the Sunday schedule will start with semi-finals
The schedule page on our website has been updated to reflect this change.

We're sorry for the change in the schedule, however please understand that this was done to
make the tournament more meaningful to everyone

Thank-you.

2011년 10월 31일 월요일

Registration Announcement II

1) Team registrations!
---Today is the last day for early registrations! Regs will be due until 11:59 PM Nov. 1, and from Nov.2 to Nov.7 we will accept late registrations, with an extended fee of 35000원 per person.

2)Staff registrations
---If anyone is interested as working as a staff member of KFLDT 2011, please email us your name, school, and a short 자기소개서. If one of the KFL Student Liaisons can advocate for you, then let one of them know so they can pass the word to our Org Com.

We'll accept 6 staff members. First come first serve. We already have recieved 3 registrations so 3 spots left!

2011년 10월 28일 금요일

Details

Early Reg finishes in 2 days!! Everyone register up!!!

Here are some clarifications:

-Nov. 12/13 @ Hanyang. Check posts below for more information

-Each impromptu rounds will have 50 minutes of prep time

-5 minute speech per speaker in each round

2011년 10월 24일 월요일

What seperates KFLDT from other national tournaments?

KFLDT 2011- The first student-based nonprofit tournament to foster a healthier debating atmosphere in Korea and allow debate to be accessible to everyone throughout Korea.

KFLDT is the first tournament ever to be run by a student committee directed to develop debate throughout Korea and allow debate to become accessible to not only international schools or foreign language high schools, but to all students in Korea. We want to provide the best experience for all middle school students in Korea. Already we have recieved registrations from schools with diverse backgrounds; we are very pleased to see that debate is becoming accessible to as many students as possible.

KFLDT is also solely non profit. We thought it to be nonsense how debate tournament registration fees have slowly continued to rise, reaching a certain amount that seemed ridiculous. KFLDT thrives to create a same-magnitude sized tournament with only 30,000won per person, and provide the competitors the best experience, best food, and a fullfilling debate tournament. We feel national competitions that claim to be non profit and expect teams to pay huge amounts of money, are unneccessary.

Finally, KFLDT has incentives. As the first tournament to be held by KFL high school student liaisons directed to middle school students throughout Korea, we feel a healthy debating atmosphere will be maintained. KIDA is also supporting us with great judges that will surely help KFLDT to become better. We will also be handing out trophies, plaques, and certificates. Best speakers and teams that make it to the finals will also recieve credit when applying to the selection process of the Korean National Team for ESDC 2012 in Stuttgart, Germany next year, which occurs every November. The team which will be competing THIS year for ESDC 2011 has already been chosen during the summer by the KFL Student Liaisons.

As the qualified Korea Forensics League is hosting this tournament, we hope to see a lot of you anxious debators on Nov. 12/13 @ Hanyang University!!

See you there!

Venue Location

Hello Everyone,

Sorry for the delay of our venue.

Our venue has been confirmed to be at Hanyang University (한양대학교). It's great news for all of us because Hanyang University has a subway station in it and is located within Seoul. I hope this new venue location will be good for all of us!

For those who are unaware of where 한양대학교 is go here: http://www.hanyang.ac.kr/ and look for 찾아오시는길 or Way to get to Hanyang.

EVERYONE please report to 한양대학교 사회과학대학교 311호 on Saturday. 311호 will act as our base camp, as it is the largest room.

For now, please be aware our FINAL location for KFLDT has been confirmed to be Hanyang University 사회과학대학교.