E-Fest 2012

Here We Go, English Society Festival 2012

(E-Fest 2012)

September 6th-9th, 2012

Nationwide E-Fest was born from E-Fest which held for two times that was in 2009 and 2010. And It was aimed for students in Lampung scoped only. Then English Society (ESo) of Lampung University, who has big intention and care for education and Indonesian students language’s ability, upgraded E-Fest to be Nationwide E-Fest 2011. It was joined by varsity and high school students throughout Indonesia. The first time we held Nationwide E-Fest in 2011 that we’re trying hard to make our dream happened is one step forward for us to improve Nationwide E-Fest much better and bring more challenging and marvellous competition than the previous one. And in 2012, We alter the brand of the competition become “E-Fest 2012”.

Last Year, the general winner for varsity category came to Bina Nusantara University which got Lampung Governor’s thropy and the general winner for high school category was grabbed by SMAN 2 Bandar Lampung which got Rector’s Throphy.

 So, Who will be the next general winners this year?

Well, here we go...

This year, we proudly present a fabulous competition,

“E-Fest 2012”

“ The Voice of Indonesia “

that will be held on September , 6^th-9^th, 2012. This is a national competition with five branches of competition namely: BP Debate, Speech, Story Telling, News Casting , and Scrabble.

This is a chance for you to join, experience , and grab the champion in this competition. So, What are you waiting for? Join it and have a great competition !

Registration opens: June 9th - August 10^th, 2012

Early Bird : June 9th – July 20th, 2012

Late Bird: July 10th - August 10th, 2012

For those who pay the registration via transfer please do the transfer by:
-For Early Bird: July 30th, 2012

-For Late Bird : August 20th, 2012

These are several ways you can register your institution:
1. Come directly to our home base at Puskom 1st floor, Lampung University at Sumantri Brojonoegoro No. 1 Gedung Meneng Bandar Lampung, or
2. Via transfer to Zakiyah, 0230908101 (BNI). Please scan the receipt to englishsociety.unila@gmail.com right after you do the transfer.

These are several regulations in registering your institution :

1. You have time till August 10th, 2012 to give the list of fixed delegations from your institution via email to englishsociety.unila@gmail.com or via sms to contact persons below.

2. After August 10th, 2012, you are not allowed to cancel registration*. If you do and you have paid, we only return the half of the payment of each delegation that cancelled.

*)If your institution sends full-cap-delegation or more than full caps, only 2 cancelled registrations for each branch are allowed before August 10th, 2012.

3. For further information, you can contact us:

- Head Project Secretary, Desi Rahayu : 0853-6907-3999

- Administration, Fitrivani                         : 0852-6993-5458

BP DEBATE

E-Fest 2012 Debate Competition is national debate competition which be purposed for all debaters in Indonesia to compete and become champion by showing their skills of public speaking and their critical thinking to respond current issues happening. 

E-Fest 2012 Debate Competition is purposed for varsity (general) and senior high school in Indonesia. There will be 40 teams of varsity (general) and 28 teams of senior high school. We combine teams of varsity and senior high school during preliminary rounds. Starting from quarter-final round to grand-final round, we split up the teams into senior high school category and varsity category (general came into varsity category). So, we will have the winner from each category, senior high school and varsities.

Competition Format

The format of this debate will be British Parliamentary (BP) System. In this format, there will be two benches that consist of four teams compete each other in a given round, namely Opening Government (OG), Closing Government (CG), Opening Opposition (OO) and Closing Opposition (CO). Even if opening team and closing team are in the same bench, they play as opponent anyway. So, both of them shall have different arguments. In each round, teams will be ranked by adjudicators in the following rule; The 1^st rank will get 3 Victory Points (VPs), 2^nd rank will get 2 VPs, 3^rd rank will get 1 VP, and 4^th rank will get 0.

Rounds

There will be two main rounds in this competition, Preliminary Rounds and Elimination Rounds.

The Preliminary Rounds

In preliminary rounds, there will be five rounds involving both of Senior High School and Varsity. After preliminary rounds, teams will be ranked from highest to lowest. The best 16 of varsity (general) and the best 8 of senior high school from preliminary rounds will progress to elimination rounds.

The Elimination Rounds

Start from elimination round, the best 16 of varsity and the best 8 of senior high will be separated as their own category. Elimination rounds consist of quarter-final round, semi-final round, and grand final round. Each of quarter-finals and semi-finals will have two winning teams from each debate that will progress to the next elimination round. In the grand-final round, the adjudication panel shall select the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th position.

Registration

Early Bird       : IDR 550.000 (Team, including N+1)

            Late Bird         : IDR 600.000 (Team, including N+1)

           Tournament Director:             Dwi Haryanto             (0856-5889-8814)

                                                             Vianna Maria Ursula (0897-543-5050)

             A-CORE         :

            Bobby Andika Ruitang (Universitas Indonesia)

            Rifan Ibnu Rahman (Intstitut Teknologi Bandung)
Nurul Djannah (STBA Teknokrat)

SPEECH

Speech is how you deliver the information, but it’s not only delivering but also make them believe and think critically with your opinion and agree with it. Beside that speech must attract the audience to listen and understand your explanation that you deliver systematically,structurally and logicaly.  If you believe and  you brave to try, you will be successful. So, this competition is one of the step for you to make it.

Competition Format       

The participants must be high school students or university students and divided into different level. There will be 35 participants of varsity (general) and 35 participants of senior high school. This competition consists of 5 rounds:  Preliminary Round 1, Preliminary Round 2,  Quarter Final, Semi Final and Grand Final.

Preliminary  Round 1 (Prepared Speech)

The participants will make their original speech in connection with theme :

“The Voice of Indonesia”. The participants should prepare their own three-to-five minute speeches.  For the 1st preliminary round, participants should prepare 3 hardcopies of their speech and submit it before coaching Clinic.

Preliminary Round 2 (Imaginary Picture)

The participants will get a picture from the media and they can open their imagination to draw the theme from the picture and develop it. The picture is not different for each participant and relates to the latest issue about economy, environment and government. There will be no question and answer session after the participant ends the speech. Participants may deliver their speeches in 3 to 5 minutes.

Quarter Final (Impromptu Speech)

The participants have to deliver speech with a certain theme. The participants will receive the same theme and the theme will give spontaneously and they prepare it in the quarantine room. There will be question and answer session after the participant ends the speech and only one question for each participant. Participants may deliver their speeches in 3 to 5 minutes.

Semi Final (Original Idea)

There will be 5 different questions from the commitee. Each participant that enter to the semi final round must take one question randomly and after that they must answer it in front of the stage based on the question that the participanst already take. You can answer the question by adding  your opinion based on what question that you’ve already get. The issue, problem, or question is different for each participant and relates to the latest issue about education, politic, culture, technology and economy. There will be no question and answer session after the participants ends the speech. Participants may deliver their speeches in 3 to 5 minutes.

Grand Final (Prepared Speech)

The participants that enter in final round will get the same theme. They already get the theme one day before the final round started. So they can prepared the speech one day before the speech started. There will be question and answer session after the participant ends the speech and only one question for each participant. Participants may deliver their speeches for 5 to 6 minutes. For the final round, participants should prepare 3 hardcopies of their speech and submit it when daily registration in the morning.

Registration

            Early Bird       : IDR  225.000

            Late Bird         : IDR 250.000

           Tournament Director:             Nivia Anda Ningrum   (0896-3127-9896)

                                                             Cita Adelia                    (0857-6867-3860)

STORY TELLING

Story telling is how you deliver a message from a story with language, gestures, and expressions to increase your public speaking, creativity, confidence, and open imagination. It's not only a formal action, but it also become an informal action, how you can entertain people and they can get a feel from your story. This competition will give you many experiences and knowledge about story telling. So use your time to join this competition which will increase your quality and capability.

Competition Format

The participants must be high school students or university students and divided into different level. There will be 35 participants of varsity (general) and 35 participants of senior high school. This competition consists of 5 rounds:  Preliminary Round 1, Preliminary Round 2,  Quarter Final, Semi Final and Grand Final.

Preliminary Round 1 (Prepared Story)

In this round, all participants should prepare their story at home. Theme of story is :

“The Voice of Indonesia”. The participants are allowed to bring their own properties to make the story become more interesting. Each participant must submit three copies of the script to the committee before the competition starts. Each participant gets maximum 7 minutes to perform their story.

Preliminary Round 2 (Magic Properties)

In this round, we will prepare some properties. There will be about 15 properties and the participants will get 3 properties randomly by taking lottery from the committee. The participants are required to use all the three properties in their story and cannot use the other than what we have prepared. The genre of the story will no be determined and it is all up to their creativity.

All the participants will initially be in the quarantine room. In this room, participants will not know the properties that they will receive. The participants will see the properties that must be used and start to think for about 3 minutes for the second preliminary round. After that, the participant starts to perform in front of the judges for 5 minutes.

Quarter Final (What’s next?)

In this round,the committee will give one paragraph of the story and the participants must continue the story by their imagination and creativity. All quarter finalists in this round will get different story. Each participant has maximum time for 10 minutes to perform their story.

Semi Final (Slide Show)

This round is slide show round, the committee will give a phrase and the participants should make a story about it. Then 20 seconds later, the committee will give another phrase that should be put into the story. In this round, we can see how good the imagination of the participants. Each participant will be given 20 slides, and each slide is random, not from the same theme.  At the end, participants should end their story.

Grand Final (Role Play Story)

The final round will be in the form of role play story where there is an involvement from some other neutral people in running the story. The committee in this story will set up the scenarios and pretend to be the actors in the story. There will be some properties prepared by the committee to assist finalists to run the story. What the finalists need to do is to create a story based on the scenarios performed by the committee and pretend to be one of the actors in the story. The finalists also need to use the properties to help them create a story idea. This is the most challenging round that it demands the creativity to create a story idea with no preparation.

Registration

            Early Bird       : IDR  225.000

            Late Bird         : IDR 250.000

           Tournament Director              Raissa Utami Putri (0897-600-4423)

                                                             Dede Jihan Rasika (0896-3136-2291)

NEWSCASTING

Everyone has an extraordinary capability inside of themself. But some of them don’t know about it. Competing in a competition will makes you know more who you are.  News Casting is how you read, present a news, interview a person or even make a news and deliver it to all around the world.  News Casting competition make you challenged to show your ability in broadcasting world, develop your skill in public speaking and communication, and help you to start your career to be the real News Caster.

Show how marvelous you are and your extraordinary ability to the world !

Competition Format

The participants must be high school students or university students and divided into different level. There will be 35 participants of varsity (general) and 35 participants of senior high school. This competition consists of 5 rounds:  Preliminary Round 1, Preliminary Round 2,  Quarter Final, Semi Final and Grand Final.

Preliminary Round 1 (News Reading)

In this round, each participant must present 2 news in 5 minutes which will be provided by the commitee.

Preliminary Round 2 (News Reading+Weather Forecast)

In this round, each participant must present a short news and also weather forecast based on the weather picture in 5 minutes that will be provided by the committee.

Quarter final  (Live Report)

Each participant will have a live report in 7 minutes at particular location set by the committe. And the themes will be announced in the technical meeting.

Semi final (Talk Show)

The participants will have talk show with a guest star prepared by the commitee in 8 minutes.

Grand Final (News Reading+Interview)

Each participant will have to present a news and interview a guest star  prepared by the commitee based on a certain topic  in 8 minutes that will be provided by the commitee.

Registration

            Early Bird       : IDR 225.000

            Late Bird         : IDR 250.000

           Tournament Director:             Fadilah Syakirah        (085789990140)

                                                 Andre Jevi Surya         (085789132010)

SCRABBLE

Scrabble is a popular word game playing worldwide. This game measures how much your knowledge of vocabularies. It also challenges you to apply your own strategies and to score as high as possible. Player who has higher score is considered as the winner. This is an educative game which involves your vocabularies in mastering your English skill.
Nowadays, we use CSW12 as the authority of this scrabble challenge.
So, what are you waiting for? Don’t think much to join this competition because we only provide 40 caps for varsity category and 40 caps also for senior high category. Prove us your talent and make sure to take part in this E-Fest 2012!

Competition Format

In this E-Fest 2012 we use single system with no elimination. All participants play 17 rounds in three days. The best two players will play in final round. The final round format is best-of-3 where the finalists play for  3 rounds. If one of the finalist win 2 rounds in a row, the 3rd game will not be played.

Word Authority : CSW 2012

Penalty : 5 points per word

Time : 25 minutes each player

The competition is adopting WESPA rules (http://www.wespa.org/rules/RulesV2nov11.pdf)

And all related rules should be covered in it.

Pairing System

Pairing system is basically a system to determine every match up in each round. There are two kinds of pairing system that will be implemented in this competition:

1. Australian Draw

Australian Draw is a pairing system based on power match (1st rank meet 2nd rank, 3rd rank meet 4th rank and so on) with no repetition in a period of time, usually one day. Thus, if a participant meets the same opponent for the second time in the same day, the pairing will be reshuffled automatically so they won’t play against each other again in the same day.

2. King of the Hill

King of the Hill is a pairing system based on power match (1st rank meet 2nd rank, 3rd rank meet 4th rank and so on) with repetition. More than one meeting is allowable.

Round 1 – 12  ->  Australian Draw Pairing System

Round 13 – 17            ->  King of the Hill (KOTH)

Registration

            Early Bird       : IDR  225.000

            Late Bird         : IDR 250.000

           Tournament Director:             Fadlan Satria   (085669999378)

                                                              Wisnu Wijaya  (085758949646)