NPEDC Rule 2: Participant Qualification

Polytechnic may qualify a team of three to four student-debaters for participating in the tournament.

1. Any student in compliance with the eligibility definitions of Polytechnic is eligible to represent his or her polytechnic.
2. A team is composed of three to four eligible debaters from a single subscribing institution.
3. A debater may qualify for and participate in the NPEDC a maximum of three times.
4. To be an eligible debater for the NPEDC, a student must provide official documents from appropriate polytechnic officials verifiying that he/she is registered as a polytechnic student and delegate of the NPEDC

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NPEDC Rule 1: General Regulations

1. Dates for the Tournament
   • The tournament shall be held in March, April or May
2. Registration Regulations
   • Process of registration must be announced at least two months prior to the tournament
3. Format
   1. Overview of the Format
      • There shall be five preliminary rounds of debate, involving all teams eligible to debate in the Competitions.
      • Seminars on debating and adjudicating are mandatory.
      • Following the five preliminary rounds, there shall be an elimination round consistin of the top 16 teams from the preliminary round.
   2. The Preliminary Rounds
      • All teams eligible to debate at the Competitions compete in the preliminary rounds
      • Composite or "swing" teams must be added by the Tournament Director to under the following circumstances:
        1. If the number of teams eligible to debate in the preliminary rounds is equal to a number divisible by two, no composite teams are allowed; or
        2. If this is not the case, then composite teams may be added until the number of teams in the preliminary round is equal to a number divisible by two.
        3. If a team withdraws from competition before or during the preliminary rounds then they shall be removed from the draw and replaced with a composite team.
   3. Selection of teams for the elimination rounds
      • At the conclusion of the five preliminary rounds, teams are ranked in consecutive orders (from highest to lowest) as follows:
        1. Total aggregate Victory Points accumulated by the team; and
        2. Total team score accumulated from speakers point from 5 rounds.
      • The highest 16 ranking teams will participate in the Main Competition elimination rounds, and shall be ranked from 1st to 16th.
      • Teams shall compete in the elimination rounds subject to the qualification requirements of this Constitution.
   4. The Main Competition elimination rounds
      • At the conclusion of each of the Octo-Finals, Quarter Finals and Semi Finals, the adjudication panel shall select one winning team from each debate. The teams shall progress to the next elimination round.
      • In the Final, the adjudication panel shall select the one winning team and the runner-up.

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National Polytechnic Speech Competition (NPSC)

NPSC is a part of contest that will be held in NPEO

General Introduction

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2013 NPEDC will be NPEO

NPEDC is an abbreviation of National Polytechnics English Debating Competition. But next year, in 2013 the number of contest in this event will be increase. Not only debate competition, there will be another competition, "Speech Competition"

It's mean we will have 2 competition in the next year's event. First is National Polytechnic English Debating Competition (NPEDC) and National Polytechnic Speech Competition (NPSC).

In NPSC there will be 3 sub contest:

1. Public Speaking Contest (Demonstration Speaking, Special Occasion Speaking, Oratory Speaking, Public Address, and Extemporarenous Speaking)
2. Newscasting Contest (TV presenting and Radio Speaking)
3. Dramatic Speech Contest (Storytelling and Solo Acting)  

Because of there will be more competition than than the last event, the name of NPEDC change into NPEO (National Polytechnic English Olympiads) for the next year's event.

For the detail of contest (explanation and rule) will be published soon

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Sahur On The Road

This is one of some event that we've done, in order to show our concern for the people living below the poverty line.

In the event that we held in 14th of August (Ramadhan 16th) we distributed about 100 package of food.

these all from the members of policy and also the english lecturer of Politeknik Negeri Banjarmasin

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